Pupil Premium Grant Report for Academic Year 2015-16
The funding has been, and will be, used to support and enhance the educational experiences of Pupil Premium children across school, to ensure progress and raise attainment. The Governors have made it a priority that many of the interventions for Pupil Premium children are delivered by very well qualified and experienced staff; as a result, a large part of the funding has released senior members of staff to work with groups of children across school and this has ensured progress for the vast majority of Pupil Premium children.
By allocating percentages of key staff members’ working time specifically to Pupil Premium children, we raise the awareness of the need to direct our focus on Pupil Premium children as a group. This also helps to create a culture of accountability whereby staff members recognise that they must demonstrate their impact on the attainment and progress of Pupil Progress children.
Total Pupil Premium Grant received:£111,500
Allocation to staffing costs:
- Senior Leaders£70,000
(direction of strategy, monitoring and direct intervention time)
- Support Staff£48,500
(one-to-one support and small group support focused on PP children)
Total allocated to staff:£118,500
In addition, the school budget is managed in order to subsidise or pay for a range of educational support and enrichment activities across the school:
- Subsidies for PP children to attend residential trips
- Subsidies for school trips and associated transport costs
- Subsidies to support afterschool activities
- Specialist small group support for children across school who work with DHT, SENDCo or some of our Teaching Assistants. This effectively reduces the class sizes for many Literacy and Numeracy lessons for all children.
- Booster groups for Y6 and Y2 children
- Specialist reading support (Beanstalk Programme)
- Breakfast club for Y6 pupils
- Homework clubs
- School funded Speech and Language therapy
- School funded counselling for children from Alliance Psychology Service
- Additional resources to support learning (Mathletics, Lexia)
Total allocated to subsidies and resources:£18,320 (£9,000 allocated to Alliance and Speech and Language costs; £5,000 allocated to subsidies for trips and activities; £4,320 allocated to resources)
Total commitment to supporting disadvantaged pupils:£136,820
As a school we are committed to supporting our most vulnerable pupils; we routinely commit more money than we receive in the Pupil Premium Grant to ensure we narrow the gaps between our Pupil Premium children and our non-Pupil Premium children by improving the quality of teaching and learning for all.
Impact
Percentages of children reaching the expected standards or higher:
Key Indicator / School Pupil Premium children / National non-Pupil Premium children / National Average (all children)EY GLD / 14% / * / *
Phonics Y1 / 86% / 83% / 81%
KS1 Reading / 71% / 78% / 74%
KS1 Writing / 71% / 70% / 65%
KS1 Maths / 71% / 77% / 73%
KS1 CRWM / 43% / * / *
KS2 Reading / 70% / 71% / 66%
KS2 Writing / 60% / 79% / 74%
KS2 SPAG / 70% / 78% / 72%
KS2 Maths / 80% / 75% / 70%
KS2 CRWM / 60% / 60% / 53%
* National data not yet available
CRWM = combined Reading, Writing and Maths (i.e. the expected level has been achieved in all three of the subjects)
At Key Stage 1:
- our PP children outperform non-PP children nationally at the Y1 phonics check;
- our PP children are only slightly behind non-PP children nationally in Reading and Maths and are performing as well in Writing.
At Key Stage 2:
- our PP children perform as well as non-PP children nationally in Reading;
- our PP children are only slightly behind non-PP children nationally in SPAG;
- our PP children outperform non-PP children nationally in Maths;
- our PP children did not perform well in Writing compared to non-PP children nationally – this is a gap we will be focusing on narrowing in future years.