×Southern Education TrustYour pupils already get outstanding in-person engagement through SET Extended Learning — adventure learning, the Alan Ball Football Academy and bespoke packages. Purple Ruler adds the live online teaching, exam preparation and therapy that keep them progressing on the days, and for the pupils, that in-person provision can't reach.
Southern Education Trust already runs its own alternative provision — SET Extended Learning — giving pupils brilliant in-person engagement through adventure learning, the Alan Ball Football Academy and bespoke packages. But in-person provision cannot reach every pupil, every day: anxiety and EBSA, distance, illness, weather, or the need for consistent live teaching across more subjects and up to GCSE. That is the gap Purple Ruler fills — online, alongside what SET already does so well.
Adventure learning, football and bespoke provision — the in-person engagement that rebuilds trust and attendance.
Live, experienced teachers delivering the academic core, exam preparation and therapy — on any day, from anywhere.
In-person engagement and consistent live teaching, combined — on one dashboard the trust oversees.
SET provides the place, the relationships and the engagement. We provide the live teaching and the system — so a pupil's week can be part outdoors or on the pitch, and part in live lessons, without losing academic momentum.
A Year 10, off-roll for months, walks into the base. Registered, marked present, and someone she knows is there. Attendance starts today.
A live lesson begins on screen, a experienced teacher and five other pupils from across the trust. Small, calm, real teaching, not a worksheet.
A full core morning, three subjects, with your on-site staff beside her, stepping in when she wobbles. The teacher teaches; your team holds the room.
A short session on the subject she is furthest behind on, built entirely around her.
A balanced timetable, not just the core, so the day feels like school.
Lesson reports and her attendance land on the dashboard. Her school sees it; you see the whole centre.
Attendance and confidence build, and a plan to step her back toward school takes shape, evidenced the whole way.
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00 | Sci | Ma | Sci | Sci | Ma |
| 10:55 | Ma | Sci | Eng | Ma | Sci |
| 11:45 | BREAK | ||||
| 12:30 | Eng | Eng | Ma | Eng | Eng |
| 1:25 | PE | · | Creative | PSHE | · |
English, Maths and Science every day, plus enrichment. Indicative, and built around each pupil.
Every child who cannot be in class needs something different. We have five ways to reach them, on one platform, with one dashboard. Here is each in a line, then we go through them one by one.
A full live timetable to place a pupil into.
Live groups on your curriculum, in your name.
One-to-one for the highest need.
Targeted tutoring to a grade.
For when the barrier is emotional, not academic.
Live data, a scored QA rubric, one dashboard.
Inspected over two days against the DfE’s eight online-education standards, and met every one. Tap a standard for what the inspector said, with the full report alongside.
Ofsted, 14–15 October 2025 · lead inspector John Nixon HMI · DfE URN 152279.
Everything your team needs to sign us off: delivery models, curriculum, quality assurance, safeguarding and safer recruitment, data protection, reporting and key contacts. Read it inline, or open the full pack.
Aligned to KCSIE and UK GDPR, and mapped to the DfE’s online-education expectations.
Open the full pack →When a child cannot attend at all, Academy is a complete online school: live, small-group teaching by experienced teachers, so learning never stops while the right next step is found.
Run your own online provision without building the platform, recruiting the teachers, or carrying the cost alone. We provide the infrastructure and the teachers; the trust keeps the brand and the control.
Some children need more than a group can give. Compass is intensive one-to-one teaching, our Tier 3 support, built entirely around how this particular child learns.
Not every child falling behind is hard to reach. Some are capable, in school, but quietly drifting below their target. Distinction is focused, exam-ready tutoring.
Sometimes a child cannot learn until something else is addressed. Evolve is our therapy and wellbeing support, sitting alongside the teaching, on the same platform.
The White Horse Federation runs exactly this across its trust. Hear from their Director of Inclusion, then from a whole borough and from students in their own words, and see who else we work with.
"It's more cost-effective for us to go through Purple Ruler." — Bal Gill, London Borough of Barking & Dagenham
The local authorities and trusts already running this, and a live trust dashboard you can open right now.
Open a live trust dashboard →The same view a trust like yours gets across all of its schools.
Examples of the local authorities, trusts and schools Purple Ruler works with. Not exhaustive.
Not a login and a worksheet. Every lesson runs a closed loop, scored against a rubric built for each programme.
Every lesson captured
Against the rubric
Specific, to the teacher
On the exact metric
Until it meets standard
Plus a monthly scored observation against the rubric; anything below standard raises a ticket that is not closed until it is fixed.
Each programme has its own scored rubric, every metric 1 to 3. Tap one:
👈 Tap to exploreOfsted, 2025: "Each pupil receives carefully tailored, individualised teaching." Purple Ruler meets all the standards for online education. Safe by design too: verified logins, moderated lessons, same-day DSL.
Each programme has its own enrolment link. The first time you give us your school and four contacts, just once; after that, every new pupil takes only their own details, and we handle the rest.
Safeguarding, attendance, IT, finance
You set times; Academy on ours; Compass, give hours
Pupil, parents and school
48h Academy · 5 days the rest
Attendance, reports, add/remove
Evolve adds one step: consent from parents first, then the pupil.
You don't have to take our word for it, or look far to check. Across Dorset we already support pupils at schools you will know — and we are on Dorset's approved list of alternative provision providers, quality-assured by the authority.
Purple Ruler sits alongside your existing provision rather than replacing its budget. Because Blueprint is priced per group, pooling pupils across your schools lowers the cost per pupil as groups fill — and you commission once, with every school and SET Extended Learning able to draw on it.
| Programme | What it is for | Indicative rate |
|---|---|---|
| Academy | A full online school to place a pupil into | £139–169 / pupil / week |
| Blueprint | Your own online provision, pooled across schools | £29.17 / hour / group |
| Compass | One-to-one, highest need (Tier 3) | £139–169 / pupil / week |
| Distinction | Stretch & exam tutoring to a grade | £29.17 / hour / group |
| Evolve | Therapy & wellbeing | £180 / learner / month |
The same live data, shown four ways. Open any of them.
A dedicated parent space explains the welcome, the daily routine, attendance, safeguarding and who to contact, so families are never in the dark. It opens live below.
Full page: help.purpleruler.com/parents
Getting a disengaged pupil to show up is the hard part, and we own it. Here is what happens around every placement.
| Student | Yr | This week |
|---|---|---|
| Maya Thompson | 10 | 92% |
| ✓ On track · no chase needed this week | ||
| Jaylen Carter | 9 | 88% |
| ✓ On track · no chase needed this week | ||
| Sofia Mendes | 9 | 84% |
| ✉️ Emailed parent · Tue 09 Jun · confirmed back Thursday | ||
| Aisha Khan | 11 | 76% |
| 📞 Welfare call · Wed 10 Jun · spoke with parent, lessons resuming Monday | ||
Behind every placement is a real child and a real report. This is the half-termly report each pupil receives, benchmarked to age-related expectations, ready for parents or a panel.
| Subject | Lessons | Attended | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | 28 | 25 | 89% |
| Maths | 28 | 22 | 79% |
| Science | 21 | 14 | 67% |
Illustrative example, pupil anonymised. Every enrolled pupil receives a report in this format each half-term, benchmarked to age-related expectations.
The reason to plan now is the summer. Agree terms this term and we use it to prepare properly: we choose our best teachers and block off their time for your trust, build your groups and the dashboard, and set up the base, so you open in September ready to teach, not scrambling to set up. A short working session is the best next step.
Indicative rates, excluding VAT. Blueprint and Distinction are priced per group, so pooled seats lower the cost per pupil as groups fill. Your per-seat pricing is confirmed for your first year in a formal quote.
Purple Ruler · Ofsted-registered, DfE URN 152279 · figures from live delivery records; per-seat pricing confirmed in a formal quote.