Events and Issues from the Summer Term, and Start of the Summer Term, 2009

HAVANNAH PRIMARY SCHOOL

PUPIL PREMIUM REPORT TO PARENTS/CARERS: 2014-2015 FINANCIAL YEAR

OVERVIEW:

The Pupil Premium Grant was introduced in April 2011, and paid by means of a specific grant per child based on school census figures for pupils. It is funding for disadvantaged pupils who have been registered as eligible for FSM (free school meals)during the past six years or those who have been in local authority care for at least six months. The amount of funding received per pupil was £1300 for FSM and £1900 for Looked After children.

OBJECTIVES FOR PUPIL PREMIUM IN THIS SCHOOL:

1. Provide additional educational support to improve/accelerate the progress and to raise the standard of achievement for the pupils in receipt of this funding.
2. The funding will be used to narrow and close gapsin attainment and progress in all year groups throughout the school.
3. Address, where possible, any underlying inequalities between children eligible for Pupil Premium and others.
4. We will ensure that the additional funding reaches the pupils who need it most and that it makes a significant impact on their education and lives.

STATISTICS:

• In the 2014-15 academic year, (the 2015-16 financial year), we had 42 pupilswho were entitled to benefit from the additional funding at some point during the year.
• In the 2014-15academic year, the school received a Pupil Premium grant of £54,600.

WHERE THE FUNDING HAS BEEN ALLOCATED

Individual/personalised support

• Play Therapy services – Children benefit from weekly sessions.
• Regular readingsessions with a teaching assistant.
• Specialist Dyslexia Teacher 1:1 weekly intervention. Dyslexia assessments.
• Health and Wellbeing worker.
• Meet and Greet programme / playtime support.
• SLT attendance at CP/CIN/CAF and Family Service Worker meetings.

Enrichment Activities/trips and visits

• Private music lessons.
• Year group residential (from Year 1 up to year 6)
• Class Trips (Termly x 3 per year)

Small Group Intervention Programmes

• Staff working with small groups of pupils, including the following intervention programmes:

-Numeracy:Wave 3 Maths, Plus 1, Power of 2,Numicon, Rapid Maths, Big Maths, Maths Counts.

-Literacy: Nessy Learning Programme, Toe by Toe, Rapid Reading, Rapid writing, Quest, SATs Busters, Target group teaching, Level 6 boosters, Nessy Fingers, Hairy Phonics.

-Emotional Learning:Time to Talk, Socially speaking, SUMO programme.

-Motor Skills United programme

Staffing

• SLT to have leadership time to monitor, assess and improve the impact of the funding on the progress and achievement of disadvantaged pupils.
• An additional Teaching Assistant during Maths and Literacy lessons in Years 6, to facilitate small set focused teaching.
• CPD of teaching assistants/staff.
• Breakfast Nurture Club.

A SUMMARY OF EVIDENCE FROM THE EVALUATION OF THE IMPACT OF THE FUNDING

During end of Year analysis, the following outcomes were seen:

Year 1 Phonics Screening Check

• In Year 1, 7% of the cohort were disadvantaged pupils. Of those children, 50% had special educational needs.
• Disadvantaged pupils had a 50% pass rate (1 out of 2 pupils) and non-disadvantaged pupils had a pass rate of 82% (23 out of 26 pupils).

Key Stage 1 SATs

• In Year 2, 21% of the cohort were disadvantaged pupils.
• At end of KS1 SATs, across all subjects, there was an average negative gap of 0.4 APS between non-disadvantaged pupils and disadvantaged pupils. This gap is reduced from a negative gap of 0.9 APS from KS1 results at the end of 2014.
• The cohort reduced the gap in both reading and maths from Year 1 to Year 2.

2014/15 - KEY STAGE 1 RESULTS

School attainment gap between disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged pupils

Key Stage 2 SATs

• In Year 6, 33% of the cohort were disadvantaged pupils. Of those children, 17% had special educational needs.
• The progress of the disadvantaged pupils in this cohort surpassed the progress of non-disadvantaged pupils. Across all subjects, non-disadvantaged pupils made an average of 3 APS progress throughout the year whereas disadvantaged pupils made an average of 4.2 APS progress.

2014/15 – KEY STAGE 2 RESULTS

Progress

The Year 6 class made excellent progress from KS1 to KS2. All disadvantaged pupils made at least two levels progress across all subjects.

MEASURING THE IMPACT OF PPG SPENDING

During 2014-15, the school evaluated the impact of additional support on each pupil every term. The evaluations focused on attainment, progress, self-confidence and emotional well-being. From these evaluations, support for individual pupils was put into place. A review of the impact of PPG spending will inform future spending in 2015-16 to raise attainment, progress and well-being.

FUTURE SPENDING

In the academic year 2015-2016, the school will receive funding for 41 Pupil Premium pupils and will receive £54,120 (an increase up to £1320 per pupil). Pupils will be identified whose progress is lower than that of non-Pupil Premium pupils and targeted intervention will be put in place to help close this gap.

If you believe that your child is entitled to Free School Meals, but you are not currently claiming them then the school will not be given Pupil Premium funding to spend on your child.

Cheshire East awards free school meals to families that receive the qualifying incomes as follows, and whose children attend a Cheshire East school: Income support (IS); Income Based Jobseekers Allowance (IBJSA); Income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA(IR); support under part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999; Child Tax Credit, provided you are not entitled to Working Tax Credit and have an annual income (as assessed by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs) that does not exceed £16,190; The Guarantee element of State Pension Credit. If you have recently become unemployed or have reduced your working hours and have been granted the four week working tax credits run on, then you may be entitled to free school meals. Please call 0300 123 5012 for advice.