Service PremiumSpending and Impact

Autumn 2017

The Service Premium began in 2011. It is paid directly to schools and the funds are allocated by the DfE. It is for children of currently serving Service Personnel, for those who have had a service parent who has died in service and also those who have left for up to a maximum of six years.

11 children in 2017-2018 are eligible for the service pupil premium of £300 per child (£3,300 in total). The number of pupils who are eligible year on year has typically been approximately 8 - 12 pupils.

The purpose of the Service Pupil Premium

Eligible schools receive the SPP so that they can offer mainly pastoral support during challenging times and to help mitigate the negative impact on service children of family mobility or parental deployment. Mobility is when a service family is posted from one location to another, including overseas and within the UK. Deployment is when a service person is serving away from home for a period of time. This could be a 6 to 9 month tour of duty, a training course or an exercise which could last for a few weeks.

How Service Pupil Premium differs from the Pupil Premium

The SPP is there for schools to provide mainly pastoral support for service children, whereas the Pupil Premium was introduced to raise attainment and accelerate progress within disadvantaged groups.

(Current guidance taken from Gov.UK)

The service premium is designed to address the emotional and social well‐being of these pupils and the school spends the money it receives in line with this principle. For example:

ELSA support (Emotional Literacy Support Assistants)

We have invested in additional staffing and training in order to provide pupils withsupport at difficult times should they require it e.g. deployment of a parent. Eligible pupils have also benefitted from the support of our ELSAs for other needs (e.g. friendship difficulties, self-esteem, anxiety etc) that can occur whether or not a parent is deployed.

ELSA assistants at this school have attended a range of accredited training funded by the school and are able to provide support to children in a wide range of areas including attachment, anger management, bereavement, anxiety, self-esteem, relationships with others. The school ensures that ELSAs remain up to date in their training and receive supervision from the Educational Psychology Service to support their work as well as being provided with release time to attend ELSA network groups.

Pupil Premium leader

The school has a Pupil Premium leader who regularly monitors the progress, attainment and wellbeing of eligiblepupils. The Pupil Premium Leader receives release time to attend a Services Premium professional network which meets termly and where best practice in supporting eligible pupils is shared.

Curriculum

The school uses opportunities within the curriculum to support eligible pupils, in particular when parents are actively deployed. For example, providing opportunities for a class to write to a deployed parent and receive letters back, linking to Geography map skills; a class visit to a deployed parents ‘ship when returning to Portsmouth (due to take place in 2018). The school has also previously celebrated Armed Forces day as a whole school community. Additional books recommended by the school library service were also purchased for the school library covering relevant themes.

Additionalsupport to accelerate progress

The school monitors the progress of all eligible pupils and provides additional interventions and support where this may be required. For example, before school additional reading intervention, after school homework support, additional lunchtime interventions, additional teaching and intervention within the school day for children identified as at risk of not achieving highly.

As a result of this provision, typically this group of pupils attain at least the same as, and usually more highly than, non-forces peers as can be seen in the data below.

2016 to 2017 Outcomes

9 pupils across the school (includes 1 pupil with an Education Health Care Plan and another pupil with special educational needs), none of whom were in Year 6 for SATS tests.

Attainment

Reading 7/9 ARE 78%(71)includes 5/9 Greater depth 56% (25)

Writing 7/9 ARE 78%(76)includes 2/9 Greater depth 22% (18)

Maths6/9 ARE 67%(75)includes 4/9 Greater depth 44% (23)

ARE = Age related expectationsNational for all pupils at the end of KS2 in brackets

Progress

8/9 pupils have made expected progress or better in Reading, Writing and Maths (89%)

High rates of progress have led to a large proportion or these pupils achieving greater depth (higher than end of KS2 national). Attainment at the expected level is in line with or above national levels (when considering the small group number which includes 1 pupil with an EHCP).

2015 to 2016 Outcomes

At the end of KS2, 5 pupils were eligible for the service premium in Year 6. 100% of these pupils achieved the expected standard in all subjects with 100% making at least expected or better progress from KS1.

At the end of KS1, 2 pupils in Year 2 who were eligible for the service premium achieved at least the expected standard in all subjects (100%).

2014 to 2015 Outcomes

There was only 1 pupil eligible for this premium in Year 2 and 1 in Year 6 (statutory assessment years) so comparisons with national levels are unreliable. However, individual attainment and progress was high for these pupils due to high quality provision.

  • Year 2 pupil: Level 3 (above average) in Reading, Writing and Maths
  • Year 6 pupil: Level 5 (above average) in Reading and Maths (having made better than expected progress of 3 levels). Level 5 SPAG test, Level 4a Writing (above average with 2 levels progress made