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Pitcheroak School

Use of the Pupil Premium in 2014/15

Pupil Premium allocation, use and impact on attainment

Pupil Premium Grant expenditure: £51,200

Report to parents/carers 2014/15

Number of pupils and pupil premium grant (PPG) received 2014/15
Total number of pupils on roll based on January ’14 census / 134
Total number of pupils eligible for PPG / 46
Total number of pupils eligible for PPG who are LAC / 12
Amount of PPG received per pupil / £1300 per Primary Child
(25 children)
£935 per Secondary Child
(20 Children)
£300 per Service Child
(1 Child)
Total amount of PPG received including LAC funding / £75,672.78
Nature of support 2014/15
Interventions / Reasons / Cost / Impact
Midday supervisor to support student with feeding difficulties / Medical reasons linked to student experiencing food rejection – learnt behaviour – LTS employed specifically to develop confidence and encourage student to feed independently / £1,039.48 / Student has now become more independent and is included in main school meal times with no more episodes of food rejection
Extended schools co-ordinator salary costs / To support students after school to develop social interaction / £9,494.29 / Students able to access school activities safely leading to students heightened levels of motivation, self-esteem, social skills and communication skills. Respite for carers/parents after school for 4 nights a week. Students build friendships and independence. Raised levels of speaking and listening skills.
Changing Table / To support the changing needs of a student with mobility difficulties to support self-help skills / £721.25 / Student has become increasingly more confident and independent when changing.
Staff training for complex needs / Working with CN students; Anxiety and Autism; Making sense of sensory learning; TEACCH; Stupendous stories for students with ASD; Intensive Interaction; Multi-sensory ideas, recipes and resources; Attachment theory to Practice / £2,196.00 / Students benefit from gaining more specialist staff support specifically for students with complex needs and ASD. Attachment disorder training to help students to express their feelings and work through them.
iPad purchase to support the curriculum / Students in KS2 often require frequent behaviour support/ interventions. The purchase of iPads was chosen as they are user friendly and fairly robust. / £1,088 / The impact of this technology has been a reduction of negative behaviours – as they have been used for re-direction/ as a motivator as a reward strategy and as a calming technique. There has also been an improvement in ICT skills (animation, media, switches, making choices.)
Ingredients for cooking from Early Years to Key Stage 5 / Pupil Premium students are able to fully participate in FT lessons (preparing and tasting food) without the stigma attached to not providing the money for ingredients. / £1,950 / Students are cooking regularly, therefore gaining skills and confidence in FT.
Educational psychologist fees / Individual students have benefitted from input from specialist educational psychologists to advise staff on strategies for behaviour management. / £1,500 / Decrease in negative behaviours as a consequence of interventions. SLEUTH reports have indicated that PP students do not feature as frequently as other students in terms of negative incidents.
Music Therapist fees / Developing communication, attention, motivation, self-expression and self-regulation of behaviour / £5,103 / Students are able to express themselves in a safe and secure environment. Decrease in behavioural incidents for certain students – evidence base SLEUTH
Drama Therapist fees / 1:1 and group support for emotional development / £5,122.50 / Students able to express their emotions and find ways of dealing with them. Students beginning to use learnt strategies to help in challenging situations. Working in small groups has helped individuals to recognise their own emotions/ actions impact on others. Evidence of impact reduced levels of disruption in certain classes.
Impartial Advice and Guidance Advisor Salary Costs / The employment of the IAG adviser to provide SEND students with specialist advice about destinations and careers / £4,038.84 / Students from year 9 upwards have been exposed to advice and support from a specialist of SEND resulting in greater awareness of what career paths are available. Another direct benefit has been to offer support and direction for families who may not be familiar with the latest choices and services available to them.
Educational Visits and residentials / Higher staffing ratio
Payment for trips / £284.40 / Students were able to access more trips due to higher ratio of staff; students were able to access different environments thereby enhancing their learning and supporting progress.
Specialist Music / To focus on speech, language and communication, as well as PSED and Expressive Arts and Design. / £980.00 / Students have improved in their PSED as they have developed their turn taking and listening skills as well as trying to promote eye contact with the more complex needs. During the sessions, all children have been encouraged to interact and vocalise.
Curriculum focus of PPG spending 2014/15
Whole school priority in line with the school development and improvement plan is
“To raise pupils achievements and standards in all subjects”
The focus in 2014/15 has been to use additional services, therapists, consultants and specialists to support access to the curriculum and behaviour for learning.
Measuring the impact of PPG spending 2014/15
Individual personalised monitoring and tracking grids of individual PPG pupils is available from the school business manager on request.