Thurcroft Infant School Pupil Premium Report 2016/17

What is Pupil Premium?

The Pupil Premium grant gives schools extra funding to raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils from Reception to Year 11. The Pupil Premium is paid to schools as they are best placed to assess what additional provision their pupils need.

Ofsted inspections report on how schools’ use of the funding affects the attainment of their disadvantaged pupils.

We also hold schools to account through performance tables, which include data on:

• the attainment of the pupils who attract the funding

• the progress made by these pupils

• the gap in attainment between disadvantaged pupils and their peers

Department for Education July 2014

Who can receive Pupil Premium?

We introduced a fund of £625 million in April 2011 to give schools £400 per year for:

• every child currently registered as eligible for free school meals

• children who have been looked after for 6 months or longer

From April 2012, pupil premium funding was also extended to:

• all children eligible for free school meals at any point in the past 6 years

Department for Education July 2014

How much is Pupil Premium?

Schools are receiving:

• £1,320 per pupil of primary-school age

• £935 per pupil of secondary-school age

• £1,900 per pupil for looked-after children who:

o  have been looked after for 1 day or more

o are adopted

o leave care under a Special Guardianship Order or a Residence Order

Department for Education July 2014

What is Early Years Premium?

Like Pupil Premium Early Years Premium is additional funding which can be used to improve your child’s learning experiences to help them make good progress and be ready for school. It is available for families in receipt of certain benefits to cover children over ages 3 and 4 years. The sum of money received for each child is £310 per year. As with Pupil Premium, it is to be used in whatever way school feels will best support the child’s progress and make them ready for school.

How much Pupil Premium was allocated to Thurcroft Infant School in the 2016-17 Academic Year?

• As a school we were allocated £102.960

Barriers to future attainment (for pupils eligible for PP, including high ability)

Oral language skills in our Foundation stage, particularly on entry to FS1 are extremely low. Children also have low levels of vocabulary development (vocabulary delay). We also have a small number of children who are eligible to access Speech and Language support but parents have missed appointments or failed to attend for other reasons and the child’s speech and language development is not being improved, which then has a significant impact on their attainment, particularly in literacy.

Many of our disadvantaged pupils don’t get support with their reading at home and fail to be rewarded for reading 3x per week for 10 weeks. These children also lack support with learning spellings or completing homework tasks. The attainment gap between our pupil premium children and our non pupil premium children is affected by this lack of support from parents at home.

Research shows that mixed age phase classes are not as successful as smaller single phase classes.

Behavioural issues for a small group of boys is having a detrimental effect on their academic progress.

Attendance and lateness reduces the number of teaching hours accessed which causes children to fall behind.

Financial deprivation and poor quality parenting have a significant negative impact on children’s attainment and many of our parents have had poor role model parents as well.

How this money will be used in 2016-17

Pupil Premium money will be used to continue the successful ‘Every Child Counts Intervention’, as well as funding an additional teacher and teaching assistant. This has enabled us to reduce class sizes and helped us to avoid having more than 1 mixed year group. Each class has a full-time teaching assistant who delivers quality interventions for targeted children. In Year 2 we have additional interventions to boost children’s learning in reading and writing eg. Wave 3 and Project X, which are delivered by our HLTA and a L3 teaching assistant.

Our Learning Mentor supports families with home life, behaviour strategies, finance, SEMH. attendance, lateness and attending TAF and FCAF meetings.

Our Speech and Language Therapist is employed 0.2fte to deliver and also support Speech and Language skills

Pupil Premium 2016-17

Number of pupils and Pupil Premium Grant (PPG) received
Total number of pupils on roll (F2-Y2) / 190
Total number of pupils eligible for PPG / 78
Amount of PPG received per pupil / £1320
Total amount of PPG received / £102,960
Thurcroft Infant PPG spending by strategy -2016/17
Strategy / Objective / Cost / Desired Outcome
Reducing Class Sizes
(+3) / To enable the majority of children to be taught in whole year group classes.
Maximising the learning for all pupils. / Additional teacher
Additional TA
£46,666 / Narrow the gap between PP and non PP children.
More targeted learning opportunities for PP children
One to one tuition
(+5)
Feedback
(+8) / To identify and address any misconceptions in Maths, Reading Writing & Phonics.
To accelerate progress in learning.
To identify barriers to learning. / Every Child Count Specialist
HLTA –Wave 3
Level 3 TA –Project X
£29,870 / To show accelerated learning
Children to meet age expected by the end of the Key stage.
Raising self-esteem & boosting confidence
Narrow the gap between PP and non PP children.
Small Group Tuition
(+4)
Feedback
(+8) / To accelerate progress in learning.
To identify barriers to learning. / Teaching assistant interventions
£37,459 / To show accelerated learning
Children to meet age expected by the end of the Key stage.
Raising self-esteem & boosting confidence
Narrow the gap between PP and non PP children.
Oral language Interventions
(+5) / To improve speech, language and communication skills.
CPD for staff. / Specialist Speech & Language Therapist
£11,550 / Improved use of vocabulary with overall positive impact on all areas of literacy outcomes
Raising self-esteem & boosting confidence
Behaviour Interventions
(+4)
Homework
(+2)
Parental Involvement
(+3)
Social and Emotional Learning
(+4)
Meta-cognition and self-regulation
(+8) / To improve readiness to learn.
To develop concentration strategies.
To raise self-esteem
To ensure disadvantaged children are given the opportunity to get support with their homework in order to complete it.
Children to be rewarded for completing their homework.
For children to attend regularly (95%+)
For children to arrive on time.
Bespoke support to be good parents.
To overcome any social and emotional barriers. / Learning Mentor
£29,743 / Narrow the gap between PP and non PP children.
Children’s behaviour enables them to fully engage in learning.
Increased concentration levels enable them to stay on task until complete
Targeted individuals attend and enjoy weekly ‘Homework club’
Children recognised and rewarded for completed homework
Parents equipped to support their children’s wellbeing and learning
All disadvantaged children have at least 95% attendance and are punctual
All parents have good social emotional mental health.