Financial Year 2018-2019

We received a total of £236,182 in Pupil Premium Grants between April 2018 and March 2019 (FSM = £231,000, Looked After Children = £1,200, Early Years = £3,982)

We spent this £236,182 and an additional £1,978 taken from the school budget in the following areas:

Areas of Spending

• Improving the quality of teaching and learning for disadvantaged pupils through professional development of all staff.
• School Counsellor – 1 to 1 counselling provision for vulnerable pupils and parents, Nurture provision, behaviour support
• Pastoral Manager – family support work with vulnerable families, attendance.
• Family Support Assistant – family support work with vulnerable families, attendance.
• Learning Mentor - new role to deal with Pupil Behaviour.
• Providing small group work with an experienced teacher/learning support/TA focussed on overcoming gaps in learning.
• HTLA – Additional speaking and listening intervention and EAL support
• LSP4 – Reading interventions for upper KS2, Fresh Start intervention
• In class support from a learning support member of staff/TA.
• LSA/P – support for 1:1 interventions as appropriate to the individual pupils.
• Improving emotional health and well-being of disaffected pupils through targeted pastoral intervention provided by the school counsellor and or family support advisor/assistant.
• Providing funding to access enrichment experiences for disadvantaged pupils e.g. school trips, out of hours clubs etc. to support the whole rounded development of these pupils.
• Breakfast club, staffing and resources – providing before school provision for all children including disadvantaged pupils.
• Developing and encouraging parental engagement and providing parent/pupil learning opportunities.
• Targeted intervention to improve the social, emotional health and well-being of disaffected pupils.
• Supporting families to ensure consistently high attendance and achievement.
• 1 to 1 tuition supporting disadvantaged pupils
• Developing access to ICT based learning opportunities.

Attainment and Progress for Pupil Premium Children

We closely track the progress of all children and provide effective intervention strategies to ensure every child make at least expected progress from Foundation Stage to the end of year 2 and from the end of year 2 to the end of year 6.

Free School Meal children, Disadvantaged pupils and Looked After Children are attaining higher than their national equivalent in all subjects by the end of year 6.