Detmold Road, Clapton, London, E5 9NL

Pupil Premium Reporting to Parents

Context

Southwold School receives additional funding in the form of Pupil Premium to support:

  • The 40% of pupils in the school who are receiving free school meals
  • 1 pupil in the school who is looked after
  • The 54% of pupils in the school who have received free school meals in one or more of the previous 6 years

Principles

  • We ensure that teaching and learning opportunities meet the needs of all of the pupils
  • We ensure that appropriate provision is made for pupils who belong to vulnerable groups, this includes ensuring that the needs of socially disadvantaged pupils are adequately assessed and addressed
  • In making provision for socially disadvantaged pupils, we recognise that not all pupils who receive free school meals will be socially disadvantaged
  • We also recognise that not all pupils who are socially disadvantaged are registered or qualify for free school meals. We reserve the right to allocate the Pupil Premium funding to support any pupil or groups of pupils the school has legitimately identified as being socially disadvantaged.
  • Pupil premium funding will be allocated following a needs analysis which will identify priority classes, groups or individuals. Limited funding and resources means that not all children receiving free school meals will be in receipt of pupil premium interventions at one time

Provision

The range of provision the school may consider include:

  • Reducing class sizes thus improving opportunities for personalised

learning and accelerating progress

  • Providing small group work with an experienced teacher focussed on

overcoming gaps in learning

  • Additional teaching and learning opportunities provided through learning
  • mentors, trained TAs or external agencies
  • Provision of additional resources (e.g. ICT programmes, new books) to support learning of specific groups
  • Additional music provision across the school, including purchasing of instruments
  • Investing in enrichment activities that inspire and motivate children from socially disadvantaged backgrounds

All our work through the pupil premium will be aimed at accelerating progress moving children to at least age related expectations.

Pupil premium resources may also be used to target able children on FSM to achieve L3 at the end of KS1 or L5 at the end of KS2

The Governors of the school will publish information on how they have used their Pupil Premium Grant to address the issue of ‘narrowing the gap’, for socially disadvantaged pupils.

Pupil Premium Grant (PPG) Allocation for 2012/13 is: £114000

Deployment

The Leadership Team/Governors have targeted the PPG to

a) To fund a full time SENCO post

b) To fund two out of class support assistants

c) To provide Kids Company support for vulnerable children and families

d) To provideLexia support services

e) To fund a university visits programme

f) To fund additional after school booster clubs

g) To fund additional time from the School Attendance Officer

h) To fund adult learning and parent workshops at the school

i) To fund for a new learning mentor

j) To purchase 10 kindles

k) To fund new books banded at appropriate levels

The PPG allocation for 2011/12 was targeted for.

a) To fund a full time SENCO post

b) To fund three out of class support assistants (HLTA’s)

c) To provide Kids Company support for vulnerable children and families

d) To fund additional after school booster clubs

e) To fund additional time from the School Attendance Officer

f) To fund adult learning and parent workshops at the school

g) To fund new books banded at appropriate levels

Impact Statement

The impact of the PPG for 2011/12 was:

a)Children in receipt of free school meals making progress in line with non PPG children

b)Children in receipt of Free School Meals attaining in line with non PPG and at times beyond non PPG pupils expectations at the end of Year 6

c)Children receiving small group intervention making expected progress in literacy and maths

d)8 children receiving therapeutic support from Kids Company

e)A large numberof families benefiting from advice and support from additional

workshops and interventions organised by the SENCO

f)A reduction in the number of persistently absent pupils and an increase in the

attendance of FSM pupils.

g)A high level of satisfaction reported from parents attending workshops at the

school.