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. In 2018/19, the school was allocated £131,835.

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 Commitment to Success programme that runs 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
• Revision workshop run by Elevate Education for HA students
• 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
• Pupil Premium champions in each faculty to highlight key areas to staff
• 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%
• Residential experience to increase student engagement in their education

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
• PP co-ordinator strategy group created between schools sharing good practice

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 team and a designated school governor during the course of the academic year using a range of data sources. 

Pupil Premium Cohort 2017-2019

KS4 
Attainment 8 scores for males, females and all students are broadly in line with national equivalents
Percentage of students achieving Maths and English 9-4 was 5.5% above 2018 national equivalents whilst percentage achieving Maths and English 9-5 was in line with national equivalents
Since the 2017 Oftsed inspection, several improvements have been made in all benchmarks.
 

Upper confidence interval is at +0.05% (2018)

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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Click here for Pupil Premium Plan 2018 - 19