Pupil Premium 2015-2016 Spend Analysis
Year Group / Project / Cost / Objective / OutcomeAll Year Groups / Pupil and Parent Support Manager and additional pastoral support. / £13,532 / Improve attendance of target pupils. Run coffee mornings and workshops to engage with disadvantaged families. To involve external agencies with families who have been identified as needing additional support.
To aid transition of pupil premium children fromInfant to Junior School. / Attendance Figures
2014-15 / 2015-16
Pupil Premium / 95.02% / 95.24%
Non Pupil Premium / 96.82% / 96.45%
All Pupils / 96.2% / 96.08%
Minimum of 2 coffee mornings per half term at each school were held and parents of vulnerable pupils were contacted to encourage attendance.
Across the 2 schools, 7 families were supported through a Family Support Process – this encompasses 13 children
3 children referred to Family Matters.
4 children referred to Young Carers.
All Year Groups / Adult education workshops – 1 hour a week, 6 weeks per workshop, 6 workshops per year. / £2962 / Qualified teacher to provide adult workshops to develop their knowledge and understanding in key skills such as literacy, numeracy, ICT and behaviour which in turns allow families to support disadvantaged children.
‘Learn with your child’ session in Summer term. Allowing parents/carers to attend a lesson with their child to gain insight into teaching and learning, followed by an opportunity to answer questions. / Feedback from parents attending-
5Rs course;
It has helped me talk about different experiences with my child and others and try solutions, it has been a very pleasant atmosphere.
I have learnt different ways of approaching behaviours and actions.
Ensuring I am explaining things the same as he is taught.
I have put things into practice at home with the stickers.
Maths;
Maths was excellent and I use it frequently.
Literacy;
This course has given me an overview of what my daughter learns in literacy and has helped me to understand more about various elements in literacy.
It was helpful to be able to help my child at home.
I feel I can help and assist my child in literacy.
Loved it all but especially the grammar session.
33 parents attended across 4 lessons
All Year Groups / Appointment of Pupil Premium leader. / £11, 729 / Teacher work jointly with the Principal to lead the drive for improvement of all disadvantaged pupils and co-ordinate interventions. / Appointed in January 2016
All Year Groups / To subsidise the cost of Trips for disadvantaged Children / £3000 / To ensure disadvantaged children are able to access the three trips/ opportunities provided throughout the year. / 100% of Pupil Premium children attended all 3 trips as these were subsidised where necessary.
All Year Groups / Mr Copping and Mr Watson to work with teachers to improve the quality first teaching that Pupil Premium children receive. / £5000 / To improve teaching practice throughout the school and to improve the quality first teaching that Pupil Premium children receive. / 5 Teachers supported across Infant and Junior Schools through;
Supported planning, resources, team teaching and marking.
Observations and feedback to support improvement in teaching.
Cover to allow teachers to observe colleagues.
The outcomes of this was that 5 out of 5 of the teachers met the targets that were set and practice was noted to have improved from formal observation notes.
All Year Groups / Assessment co-ordinator to support teachers in improving the understanding of and effectiveness on child friendly marking / £2600 / Peer mentoring and support for staff to improve marking, in turn, impacting on the quality first teaching that Pupil Premium children receive. / Marking scrutiny and feedback.
3 staff meeting across the year.
Trial marking scheme and marking Policy updated to reflect this. Marking in books shows that progress is being made and the comments move the children’s learning on through providing next steps.
All Year Groups / Children’s University and after school opportunities / £4000 / To run alongside our Children’s University programme, disadvantage children are subsidised to attend addition learning activities. / Across the two Schools, UEA High Achievers Events Bronze Certificate for those children who have 130+ hours
OPEN, Norwich, Newcomers Events Bronze, Silver Gold Award for all children who attained up to 100 hours
Thirty one children graduated with Bronze to Gold awards and one childwho quite incredibly amassed more than 130 hours, graduated at the higher achievers event.
It is estimated that a further 30+ children have also achieved the required accreditation and are ready to graduate, but Children’s University capped our allocation at 32 citing this number as being especially high.
63% of PP children attend an after school club.
Raspberry Pi Club – children eligible for PPG given priority. 48% of those who attended received pupil premium funding.
Years 1-6 / To employ an extra teacher to carryout broadening horizon lessons for disadvantaged children. 1 hour a week per year group. / £15,405 / Qualified teacher to provide additional sessions to broaden children’s knowledge and understanding of the world making links with literacy and numeracy skills where possible. These sessions also aim to promote independent learning and team work. / Topics Covered –
Year 5 and 6 – Mobile Apps and App Development, Charities and Fundraising, Assembly Writing and Performance.
Years 3 and 4 – Film and Movie Making, Food and Healthy Eating, Assembly Writing and Performance, Computing and Technical Presentations.
Year 1 and 2 - Film and Movie Making, Food and Healthy Eating, Computing and Technical Presentations.
Years 1-6 / Forest School provision / £8877 / Give Pupil Premium children the opportunity to work and learn collaboratively in the outdoors environment under the direction on a qualified Forest School Instructor. / 46% of children attending this group attracted pupil premium funding. Others have been identified as disadvantaged due to behaviour or social and emotional difficulties.
The forest schools group were assessed against 33 objectives, all of which were not met at the start of sessions.At the end of the course, an average of 52% of those objectives have been achieved by the group.
Years 1-6 / TAs to deliver Targeted intervention for handwriting, spelling, reading, writing and number skills. / £6833 / To support children with their individual targets in order to close gaps and accelerate their progress in Literacy and Numeracy. 14 hours a week / See Overall KS2 data for impact.
Years 1-4 / Young Film Makers Club – a 12 week course. / £1680 / An external provider who teaches children how to make film whilst focussing on improving communication, self-confidence and literacy skills. / Completed during autumn term, children attended for 1 hour per week and made a total of 4 short films. Children were assessed against agreed criteria including term work and communication skills.
Reception, Years1, 2 and 3 / Norfolk Steps training –
Step up and Step on. / £750 / External training provided for all staff to deescalate situations and ensure the safe and a correct handling of children when dealing with negative behaviour. / September 2015 – 24 staff members Step On trained ad 11 Step Up trained.
Years 1 and 2 / Purchase of new intervention materials / £1000 / Resources and equipment purchased for children based on their individual needs and targets. / See Overall KS2 data for impact.
Years 3-6 / To continue the Thrive programme delivered by trained TAs, pastoral head and SENCO and further to this implementing Family Thrive. / £15,171 / To assess the developmental gaps children have and support them through 1-1 and group intervention amounting to 20 hours per week. Continued use of the Thrive online assessment programme. In addition to this Family Thrive training has been taken – to be implemented later this year. / All children across both schools were screened October 2015. Every teacher has an action plan for their class based on the results of this.
23children have received Thrive intervention this term.
Years 3-6 / 1-1 Read Write Inc tuition / £9,671 / 20 hours per week of targeted support. / See Overall KS2 data for impact.
Year 6 / Experienced teacher to deliver Booster intervention for year 6 pupils. / £11,729 / To support targeted children in preparation for key stage two SATS. / 13 children identified as making less than expected progress were selected for this in the Spring 1st half term and 21 in the summer 1st half term.
Alongside this each year group has received targeted intervention, focused on literacy and grammar over at least one half term per year group.
Year 3 – 10 children
Year 4 – 20 children
Year 5 – 6 children
Years 3-6 / Purchase of 24 ipads with cases / £6600 / Purchased September 2015
Years 3-6 / Wake Up, Shake Up Club (exercise and breakfast club) for all Pupils / £3076 for 40 weeks / To ensure that all pupils have had a good breakfast and are motivated for their learning. / 52% of the Wake Up Shake Up club are Pupil Premium children. Some of these are funded to ensure a good start to the school day for all pupils.
Year 3 / Experienced teacher to deliver daily Read, Write, Inc. sessions / £11,729 / To support targeted children in the last stage of the phonics programme. / 6 PP children were taken for this and now they no longer require RWI input and have been fully integrated into class literacy.