Swaythling Primary School Pupil Premium report

What is the Pupil Premium?

Schools receive Pupil Premium funding from the Government to help address inequalities in pupil achievement and opportunity. The Government believes that the Pupil Premium, which is additional to main school funding, is the best way of ensuring that funding to tackle disadvantage reaches the pupils who need it most. The amount of funding that each school receives is based on:

• The number of pupils who are currently eligible for Free School Meals

• Children who have been looked after continuously for more than six months

• The number of pupils who have ever been eligible to receive Free School Meals over the

previous six years.

Schools have the freedom to spend the Pupil Premium in a way they think will best support the

raising of attainment for the most vulnerable pupils. They are held accountable for how they

have used the additional funding to support pupils from low-income families.

Which of our pupils attract Pupil Premium funding and how well are they doing?

To date the school has received 4 allocations of Pupil Premium: April 2012 (£44,233), April 2013 (£68,100), April 2014 (£122,800) and April 2015 (£122,900)

This analysis focuses on the pupils on roll Sept 2014– July 2015 who met the Pupil Premium criteria. Statistically, these pupils are a significant group – 40% of the school population.

We expect that the attendance and rate of progress for this group will be at least in line with theirpeers, and where there has been underachievement, in the past, the gap will close. It is ourshared ambition that as a result of high quality first teaching and effectively targeted support, allour pupils will achieve at least as well as all pupils nationally by the end of KS2.

KS2 Pupil Premium Results- in a cohort of 9 children:

  • 89% of our Pupil Premium Children achieved Level 4 or higher in Maths (National non-pupil premium is 90%)
  • 89% of our Pupil Premium Children achieved Level 4 or higher in Reading (National non-pupil premium is 91%)
  • 89% of our Pupil Premium Children achieved Level 4 or higher in Writing (National non-pupil premium is 94%)
  • 89% of our Pupil Premium Children achieved Level 4 or higher in Mathematics, Reading and Writing (National non-pupil premium is 85%)
  • 89% of our Pupil Premium Children achieved Level 4 or higher in the English, Grammar, Punctuation % Spelling test (National non-pupil premium is 80%)

KS2 Pupil Premium Progress

• 89% achieved 2 or more levels progress KS1-2 in Maths (National non-pupil premium is 91%)

• 89% achieved 2 or more levels progress KS1-2 in Reading (National non-pupil premium is 92%)

• 89% achieved 2 or more levels progress KS1-2 in Writing (National non-pupil premium is 95%)

Better than expected progress

33% achieved 3 or more levels progress KS1-2 in Maths (National non-pupil premium is 37%)

33% achieved 3 or more levels progress KS1-2 in Reading (National non-pupil premium is 33%)

44% achieved 3 or more levels progress KS1-2 in Writing (National non-pupil premium is 37%)

The impact of targeted intervention funded by Pupil Premium has been invaluable in ensuring accelerated rates of progress for this group.

Year 1 Phonics Screening Test

  • 53% of pupils in receipt of PP passed the Year 1 phonics screen (National non Pupil Premium is 77%)
  • 91%of pupils in receipt of PP passed the phonics screen by end of Year 2 (National non Pupil Premium is 90%)

KS1 PP Results

The Pupil Premium children (9 in a cohort of 28) achieved an Average Points Score of:

  • 15.7 in Reading (National non-Pupil Premium is 17.1)
  • 13.4 in Writing (National non-Pupil Premium is 15.8)
  • 15.7 in Maths (National non-Pupil Premium is 16.9)

Whilst these results are better than National Pupil Premium results for Reading & Maths, we are determined to overcome the traditional underachievement of disadvantaged pupils and will be making strenuous efforts to improve on these results into the future.

Year R – Early Learning Goals

78% of Pupil Premium children achieved a good level of development. Across the country, 62% of all children meet this level

The attendance of our Pupil Premium children was 94.5%, compared to 95.2% for the school as a whole.

Key

XxxAt, or within 0.5 of 1 pupil of NA

XxxNot yet at NA, but better than similar children nationally

XxxNot yet at either NA or similar children nationally

How has the funding been allocated?

The funding has been spent in the following areas:

• Additional Teacher to support targeted groups in Years 5 & 6

• Additional Teacher and Teaching Assistant resources in Year 6 to deliver targeted small

group teaching and individual support

• Additional LSA in Year R

• Targeted small group and 1:1 catch up and intervention teaching

• 1:1 tuition

• 6 music ‘scholarships’ funded

• Contribution towards costs of after school activities and school trips & visits

• Contribution towards the cost of a Family support worker to support vulnerable families

• Additional Education Welfare & Attendance Officer time to ensure that attendance for pupils is not a barrier to learning

• Numicon resources and training purchased for whole school

• Replaced reading scheme with more accessible and engaging one

• Invested in online resources children can access out of school.

• Curriculum enriched through buying in theatre experiences.

Planned spending for 2015/16

• Additional Teacher to support targeted groups in Years 5 & 6

• Additional Teacher and Teaching Assistant resources in Year 6 to deliver targeted small

group teaching and individual support

• Additional LSA in Year R

• Targeted small group and 1:1 catch up and intervention teaching

• 1:1 tuition

• 9 music ‘scholarships’ funded

• Training and release time for ‘Coaching the Children’ project

• Contribution towards costs of after school activities, school trips & visits

• Contribution towards the cost of a Family support worker to support vulnerable families

• Numicon training purchased for whole school

• Enrich current reading scheme

• Online resources children can access out of school.

• Curriculum enriched through theatre experiences, visiting speakers etc.

Summary

The school has worked hard to reduce the impact that deprivation has in educational attainment. Over the last three years, this has seen a real transformation in terms of the levels children reach by the end of Key Stage 2. Children join us with huge discrepancies in school readiness, which are still evident at the end of KS1. The children who benefit from Pupil Premium funding make good progress, and by the end of KS2, have made better than expected progress, comparing very favourably in reading and Mathswith non PP children nationally.

The Pupil Premium children make good progress in all subjects.

To be reviewed in October 2016