Pupil Premium Report Academic Year 2015- 2016
About Aspire
Total peak number of students on roll (Spring 2015): 96
Total peak number of students on roll (Autumn January 2016): 84
Total % of pupils eligible for PPG - 100 %
Total number of students receiving LAC PPG: 4
Total number of students receiving PPG Service: 0
PPG Entitlement
PPG entitlement per student for year 2015-2016 (full year/by term) - £935/£311.66
PPG entitlement per LAC student for 2015-2016 (full year/by term) - £1900 /£633.33
PPG entitlement per Armed Forces Service Child (full year/by term) - £300 /£100
As an AP Academy Free School, Aspire does not receive Pupil Premium in the same way as other schools. Aspire hasthe equivalent of PPG built into its commissioning costs for each student. In the cases where students are LAC, the referring Local Authority pays their PP contributions.
Those students referred to Aspire are categorised as ‘disadvantaged’, therefore requiring alternative provision to halt regression and then make sustained academic progress to begin to close the gap between their attainment and that of their peers not in receipt of PP.
Estimated total amount of PPG received January 2015- January 2016 year:
Based on term averages:
Spring Term: (96 including 4 LAC): £60,800
Summer Term: (98 including 4 LAC): £62,066
Autumn Term (84 including 4 LAC): £55,733
Full Year: £178,599
Aspire has a higher than national average percentage of eligible for PP students;100% of Aspire students are receive FSM compared to 41.6% PRU (FSM National Average 2015); 13.9 Mainstream Secondary (FSM National Average 2015).
Aspire has a higher than national average percentage of students with special educational needs compared to 10% (National Average).
Aspire’s Understanding of Pupil Premium
The Pupil Premium is an amount of money that a school receives based upon the number of children at that school that are eligible for Free School Meals (FSM). Aspire receives the equivalent of Pupil Premium within the commissioning costs paid to Aspire by both the Local Authority and by Private commissions.
The Pupil Premium has a number of aims:
to increase social mobility;
to enable more pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds to get to the top Universities;
to reduce the attainment gap between the highest and lowest achieving nationally.
Simply spending more money on children does not necessarily improve their learning or their aspirations. There is no direct link between spending money and outcomes for students. If the Pupil Premium is to succeed in achieving its ambitious outcomes, the choices Aspire makes in allocating the money are vital to raising student attainment and aspirations. The concept of PPG was as one part of a strategic approach to raising standards across the academy, providing better opportunities for our students academically, as well as developing life, work and personal skills to give them the best chance of a successful future.
Summary Overview of Spending Decisions
The interventions and strategies explained below were not developed as a result of Pupil Premium but with our students’ complex needs, social and economic situation in mind.
Tutor Support
Pupil Premium enables Aspire to recruit and pay highly skilled level 2 TAs to work as tutors. Each class of 8 students has a teacher with suitable qualifications and experience. In addition, they have a tutor who is responsible for their pastoral care, behaviour and parental contact. Once the primary responsibilities of the tutor are complete, the role then supports learning and therefore directly impacts on student progress.
Aims and Success Criteria: To support behaviour thus allowing academic progress to be made, reducing the attainment gap
Number of tutors each term / Average cost to Aspire (including on costs) £21,262.00 (a year)/ £7087.00 (a term)Spring Term / 15 / 106,310
Summer Term / 15 / 106,310
Autumn Term / 15 / 106, 310
Total: / 318, 930
Reading Intervention Programme
In November 2014, 21% were identified as having a reading age below 7 years with only 11% having a reading age around or above their actual age. 2015-2016 has seen a similar number of students arrive with the same barrier.
In response, PPG enabled Aspire to employ a level 2 TA to run, monitor and devise reading intervention programmes. This enabled the students with the most challenging reading ages to make good or better progress. Each year brings new students. The programmes in place continue to help narrow the gap for existing students; they also help to address the needs of new students. The Dyslexia Screening Programme was recommended by a Dyslexia specialist. The use of the programme enables Aspire to target more specifically the support needed to improve reading and writing.PPG enabled Aspire to do purchase the AR programme for the next 2 years and the Dyslexia screening software (to be used in conjunction with the Dyslexia specialist testing).
Aims and Success Criteria: To enable Aspire students to make reading progress and therefore greater academic progress, closing the gap between their reading age and chronological actual age.
Average cost of to Aspire (including on costs) £21,262.00 (a year)/ £7087.00 (a term)Spring, Summer, Autumn Terms / £21,262
Reading Intervention Programmes
Accelerated Reader: 1 year / £2000 (£6000 for 3 years)
Dyslexia Screening Programme / £500
Total: / £23,762
Personal Mentor
In September, PPG enabled us to recruit a highly skilled member of support staff to work with Aspire students as a personal mentor. Our personal mentor offers counselling and listening surgeries to students who are struggling or in a crisis situation. Our personal mentor is crucial to reintegration students back into lessons, after attending consultations with our mental health nurse. Our personal mentor additionally works with connexions and careers services to ensure students have a positive post-16 outcome. In order for this to happen our personal mentor had to become full time. PPG enabled us to pay our personal mentor full time as opposed to part-time and pro rata. PPG continues to subside the Personal Mentor position.
Aims and Success Criteria: To enable students to manage their emotions, thus staying in school and making progress here. To find appropriate post-16 placements and courses, reducing NEETS and allowing those choosing the academic route access to A’levels, which would help them to go to the university if they chose to.
Estimated cost to Aspire for pay increase due to increased hours onlyWhole academic year / £6000
Total: / £6000
Summary
PPG Aim / CostingsEnabling access to Higher and Further Education and support in making FE choices (including academic routes to university) / £6000
Reducing the attainment gap between PPG students and non-PPG peers / £236,176
Total: / £342,692
Overspend / £164, 093
If you have any questions relating to Aspire’s use of PPG or wish to request further details please do not hesitate to contact us here at Aspire Academy.