Pupil Premium

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2020 – 2021

Total number of pupils on roll (2019/20)266
Number of pupils benefiting from PPG50
Total amount of PPG received (£)£72 215

Summary of main educational barriers

  • Attendance of some pupils
  • Some of our children come from families with issues around Social, Emotional and Mental health
  • Low self-esteem
  • Unstable family life
  • Reading fluency and understanding of vocabulary
  • Lack of regular support from home for reading and homework.
  • Some children do not access to a computer or a quiet working space
  • Financial constraints can inhibit life experiences
  • Covid 19 implications around access to school and learning

How Pupil Premium Grant is used to overcome barriers

  • Employment of teaching assistants in classes to enable small group or 1-1 work:
  • In class, targeted support
  • Reading groups
  • Phonics groups
  • Maths intervention
  • ELSA and therapy trained teaching assistant
  • Opportunities to join certain clubs and participate in extra-curricular activities.

Impact

In 2020-21, there was no official published data due to the disrupted schooling caused by Covid.  In-school assessments were made at the beginning of the year, as well as towards the end of each subsequent term.

  • In KS1 and KS2, all pupil premium children made expected progress or better in writing within the year 2020-21.
  • In reading, 100% of pupil premium children in Years 3 and 6 made expected progress or better within the year, and pupil premium children in Year 4 exceeded the progress of those who were not pupil premium.
  • In Years 1, 4 and 5, all pupil premium children made expected progress in maths within the year, whilst a greater percentage of pupil premium children than non-pupil premium children achieved the expected progress in Year 3.

2019 – 2020

Total number of pupils on roll (2019/20)263
Number of pupils benefiting from PPG37
Total amount of PPG received (£)£56 040

Summary of main educational barriers

  • Attendance of some pupils
  • Some of our children come from families with issues around Social, Emotional and Mental health
  • Low self-esteem
  • Unstable family life
  • Reading fluency and understanding of vocabulary
  • Spoken English not fully developed – Standard English not transferred to written work and spelling
  • Lack of regular support from home for reading and homework.
  • Some children do not access to a computer or a quiet working space
  • Financial constraints can inhibit life experiences

How Pupil Premium Grant is used to overcome barriers

  • Employment of teaching assistants in classes to enable small group or 1-1 work:
  • In class, targeted support
  • Reading groups
  • Phonics groups
  • Maths intervention
  • Opportunities to participate in extra-curricular activities.

Impact

  • In March 2020, the national lockdown due to Covid disrupted the children’s education.  There was no published data for this year, with the last in-school data being recorded in the Autumn term, just before most children were home educated.
  • Data at this time showed that all pupil premium children in Year 1 were making expected progress or above within their year in reading, writing and maths.  Likewise, in Year 2, all pupil premium children were making expected progress or more in writing and maths, with just one not having made the progress in reading.
  • When the school was partially reopened, year 6 had 83% attendance of pupil premium children.

2018 – 2019

Total number of pupils on roll (2018/19)254
Number of pupils benefiting from PPG42
Total amount of PPG received (£)£64,540

Summary of main educational barriers

  • Attendance of some pupils
  • Some of our children come from families with issues around Social, Emotional and Mental health
  • Low self-esteem
  • Unstable family life
  • Reading fluency and understanding of vocabulary
  • Spoken English not fully developed – Standard English not transferred to written work and spelling
  • Lack of regular support from home for reading and homework.
  • Some children do not access to a computer or a quiet working space
  • Financial constraints can inhibit life experiences

How Pupil Premium Grant is used to overcome barriers

  • Employment of teaching assistants in classes to enable small group or 1-1 work:
  • In class, targeted support
  • Reading groups
  • Phonics groups
  • Maths intervention
  • Opportunities to participate in extra-curricular activities.

Highlights in 2019 (Based on provisional data)

  • 67% of disadvantaged pupils achieved expected standards in each of reading, writing and maths, though this rises to 80% per subject if a child with an EHCP is removed from the data
  • 100% of disadvantaged pupils achieved expected standard in reading at KS1
  • 60% of disadvantaged pupils achieved expected standard in phonics