Pupil & Sports Premiums

See below for our Pupil Premium Strategy for 2022 – 2023.

Our Rationale:

We want our provision to ensure that our most vulnerable children are well provided for and receive high quality support to help them achieve their personal best. We want to see high standards in the pupils’ work and SATs results to demonstrate the impact that the funding has on achievement and progress.

We aim to provide our vulnerable pupils with opportunities to experience cultures, historic settings and have expirences that they would otherwise not normally be exposed to. We know with the additional support and resources, all pupils become more confident individuals and are more willing to apply themselves during lessons. We want to narrow the learning gaps for all our pupils and continue to inspire them.

As a school we are committed to ‘diminishing the differences’ between vulnerable pupils and the Pupil Premium forms a vital part of that process. Our approaches the Pupil Premium through the following principles:

• Academic performance– interventions for maths and English before and during school, booster classes, homework clubs, working in small groups. Phonics 1-1 support. Purchase of high quality class reading books and for the school library, parent library in EYFS.
  Use of EAL teaching Assistant working with pupils new to English. Using the Catch-Up and Recovery Premium we will be ensuring that pupils work on basic skills in reading, writing and maths. Teachers will provide catch-up and pre-teach sessions during the day at least twice a week (See Catch-Up Premium) and TAs work with identified pupils before school starts
• Wellbeing – school counsellor working in school with identified pupils, to help overcome emotional barriers to learning, Speech and Language Therapist working in school to support pupils and staff in improving communication and language skills. Attendance, MAGIC and Star of the week celebrations and activities. Learning mentors working with groups of pupils to support with social skills and overcoming barriers to learning. Providing free breakfast in the morning for breakfast club. 
• Enrichment activities – subsidised residential visits for pupils in Y5 and Y6, annual Work Week,  workshops on and off-site to ehance the curriculum, visits museums and galleries, places of worship and historical places .
• Improve physical performance –  2 week intensive Aquatic Centre swimming in 5Y Y6, use of PE grant for a range of free after school clubs run by the school and outside providers, attendance in inter-borough competitions, residential activities, CPD opportunities for staff and specialist sports coaches.

Catch-up Premium:

Aims:

• Narrow the gaps between PPG and Non-PPG
• Identify pupils for English and Maths interventions from Pupil Progress Meetings and pupil engagement
• Run bespoke interventions before school by Teaching Assistants and during school by class teachers at set times during the week
• Interventions are set to improve basic skills for English and Maths which supports the National Curriculum

Reporting:

It is the responsibility of the Deputy Headteacher to produce termly reports for the Head Teacher, Senior Leadership Team and Governing Board covering:

• The effects of the expenditure on eligible and other groups made towards narrowing the gap, by year group, for socially disadvantaged pupils
• An outline of the provision that was made since the last meeting