Pupil Premium
This statement details our school’s use of pupil premium (and recovery premium for the 2024 to 2025 academic year) funding to help improve the attainment of our disadvantaged pupils.
Driving our Pupil Premium Strategy
All our staff are committed to a whole school approach that maintains high expectations for our disadvantaged students. High-quality teaching is at the heart of our approach , with a focus on areas where disadvantaged students require the most support.
Quality First Teaching
Our Pupil Premium strategy is embedded through high-quality teaching that is responsive to student needs.
- High Expectations: Teachers ensure disadvantaged students are consistently challenged in the work that they’re set.
- Diagnostic Assessment: We use data from standardised diagnostic assessments (reading, writing, maths) and ongoing assessment to understand specific learning needs, rather than making assumptions about disadvantage.
- Early Intervention: Teachers act early to intervene at the point where a need is identified. This addresses underdeveloped reading, writing, and mathematical skills evident when children start at the school.
- Curriculum Development: Subject leads, are allocated directed time to assess the impact of the curriculum and develop it over time.
- Literacy Focus: Teachers actively work to improve literacy in all subject areas, as acquiring literacy skills is key for students as they learn new, more complex concepts.
Targeted & High-Quality Support
Teaching Assistants (TAs) are vital for delivering structured and well-evidenced interventions that provide the academic support necessary to close attainment gaps.
- Intervention Delivery: TAs deliver well-evidenced literacy interventions (e.g., Lexia, Precision Teaching, Fresh Start) for students requiring additional support. These are high-quality structured interventions that deliver short sessions over a finite period
- Targeted Support: TAs provide specific support through interventions to meet the specific needs of disadvantaged students with multiple vulnerabilities, focusing on language development, literacy, and numeracy.
- General Support: TAs are deployed to support high-quality provision within the classroom
Our ultimate aim is for students in receipt of the pupil premium fund to attain a level in reading, writing, and mathematics that is in line with their non-disadvantaged peers.
Our wider strategies focus on attendance, well-being, and enrichment. We are embedding DfE guidance and using monitoring systems to work with families and reduce the attendance gap of 2.36%. To mitigate economic disadvantage, we provide breakfast club and subsidize extra-curricular activities, off-site visits, and residentials. We have developed our Mental Health support to support increasing anxieties and reduce barriers to learning.
