Pupil Premium

The Pupil Premium is funding given to schools for the specific purpose of boosting the attainment of pupils from low-income families.

Funding is based on children who have registered for a free school meal at any point in the last 6 years, children that are in care or adopted and children whose parents are currently serving in the armed forces.

Impact of Pupil Premium Funding

We have the highest expectations for all our children, ensuring that each child reaches their full potential, both academically and socially. In order to do this, we engage in a range of strategies to issue challenge at an appropriate level, and provide support to overcome barriers to learning.  We provide a rich and applied curriculum, which makes an exceptional contribution to pupils' outcomes, and with individualised learning so that children are engaged and achieve exceptionally well now, and at the next stage of their education and in adult life.

Pupil Premium Funding (PPF) is a government initiative that targets extra funding at pupils from deprived backgrounds. Research shows that pupils from deprived backgrounds underachieve compared to their non-deprived peers. The premium is provided to enable these pupils to be supported to reach their potential. The Government has used pupils entitled to free school meals (FSM), looked after children and service children as indicators of deprivation, and have provided a fixed amount of money for schools per pupil based on the number of pupils registered for FSM over a rolling six-year period.

By following the key principles below, we believe we can maximise the impact of our Pupil Premium spending:

Identification of Pupils

We will ensure that:

-All teaching staff and support staff are involved in the identification of pupil premium and vulnerable children

-All teaching staff and school governors are involved in the analysis of data

Analysing Data

We will ensure that:

-All staff are involved in the analysis of school data so that they are fully aware of strengths and weaknesses across the school

-We use research (such as the Sutton Trust Toolkit and Education Endowment Fund) to support us in determining the strategies that will be most effective in closing the gap and raising attainment and progress of our children

Ongoing Improvement of Teaching and Learning

We will ensure that:

-All children receive daily access to good teaching and we set high expectations of all our children

-We continue to improve assessment, internal moderation and external moderation

-Teachers use analysis of class data to plan specifically for the strengths and areas to develop for their children to ensure optimum progress and attainment

-We are proud to have an ethos in school of sharing good practice through coaching and mentoring and it is seen to be as a real positive

Provision and Individualised Support

We will ensure that provision is made that:

-Facilitates each pupil's access to education and the curriculum

-Looking at the individual needs of each child and identifying their barriers to learning

-Tailoring interventions to the specific learning needs of that child

-In particular, provides small group work and 1:1 teaching with our support staff focused on overcoming barriers and gaps in pupils' learning and accelerating progress and attainment

-Provide earlier interventions at EYFS & KS1 to remove/prevent barriers to learning

-Match the skills of support staff to the interventions they provide

Ensures teaching and support staff have regular opportunities to communicate about their children and evaluate progress

-Alternative support, intervention and expertise from outside agencies is accessed and fully utilised

-Support the funding of enrichment opportunities and educational visits to enhance pupils' learning opportunities- outside the classroom

-Continues to improve attendance and punctuality to maximise learning time

-Providing support for parents and carers to support their children's learning within the currirulum e.g. Maths, Phonics and Reading workshops in school.

Mr Tom Boardman is the pupil premium designated governor; she reviews the pupil premium strategy regularly and gives feedback to the school governing body.