Pupil Premium

Pupil Premium Funding

The pupil premium is additional funding that is given to schools to address the inequalities between children eligible for free school meals and their peers. For the year 2017/2018 Ashby School has received £137,280 in pupil premium funds.

Aim

To use the pupil premium funding to close the gap in both attainment and progress between those students eligible for pupil premium and their peers

Approach

Research completed by the Education Endowment Foundation/Sutton Trust identify the most effective ways of spending this funding to secure the greatest impact. Our funding was put toward a range of projects, informed by this research and designed to raise achievement, address attendance and engagement and improve transition by addressing key barriers. These projects are detailed in our Pupil Premium development plan of which the key elements are summarised below.

Increasing Achievement

Objective: To improve progress of pupil premium pupils so that it is at least in line with their peers both within school and nationally.

Strategies

•    Provision of a personal mentor to students to ensure they were kept on track and were fully supported to achieve their potential.
•    Provision of a Commitment to Success programme that ran for two hours after school every week. This targeted the students who were not achieving 5 GCSEs at grades A*- C including English and Maths.
•    Provision of a High Attainment Programme (HAP). This involved a variety of workshops and mentoring sessions and was targeted at the students aiming for grade B and above.
•    Decrease in class sizes in English and Maths targeted at Pupil Premium students
•    Deployment of a Pupil Premium HTLA focused on supporting identified underachieving students across the curriculum but particularly in English and Maths
•    Provision of after school bespoke tutoring in English and Maths
•    Provision of one-week intensive Maths and English programmes in conjunction with Pet-Xi
•    Provisions of resources and equipment including revision guides, materials for Design and Technology, examination kits, trip assistance and uniform.

Increasing Attendance and Engagement

Objective: To improve attendance and engagement of pupil premium students.

Strategies

•    Establishment of an alternative provision curriculum and work experience programme to engage students who struggled with a mainstream curriculum
•    Use of attendance officer targeting pupil premium students whose attendance was less than 95%

Improving Transition

Objective: To improve transition for Pupil Premium students.

Strategies

•    Continued development of a transition programme with feeder high schools where pupil premium students were able to attend an enhanced programme of transition days during the spring and summer term
•    Regular liaison between Pupil Premium co-ordinator and colleagues in the feeder high schools. 
Monitoring and Evaluation
A specific development plan is constructed for the Pupil Premium budget and this is shared with governors at the start of the academic year. The impacts of projects within the plan are then monitored by the Pupil Premium Co-ordinator and a designated school governor during the course of the academic year using a range of data sources. 

Pupil Premium Cohort 2015-2017

KS4 

79 Students

Outcomes
Student outcomes for disadvantaged students improved in a number of key areas including Maths, English, Science and Humanities. The improvement in these areas has been a result of a number of different contributory elements including a continued focus on enhancing teaching and learning in conjunction with a range of intervention programmes. In this context the one-week intensive revision programmes delivered in conjunction with Pet-Xi have been particularly effective. 

KS5

14 students

Disadvantaged students at KS5 are supported through the Sixth Form Bursary programme. Outcomes for disadvantaged students have been equivalent to non-disadvantaged students in recent years.

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