Purpose

• The Government believes that the Pupil Premium, which is additional to main school funding, is the best way to address the current underlying inequalities between children eligible for free school meals (FSM) and their wealthier peers by ensuring that the funding to tackle disadvantage reaches the pupils who need it most.
• In most cases Pupil Premium is allocated to schools and is clearly identifiable. It is for schools to decide how to allocate Pupil premium, allocated to schools per FSM pupil, is spent since they are best placed to assess what additional provision should be made for individual pupils within their responsibility.
• Schools are free to spend the Pupil Premium as they see fit. However they will be held to accountable for how they used the additional funding to support children from low-income families. New measures will be included in the performance tables that will capture the achievement of those deprived pupils covered by Pupil Premium. For September 2012, we will also require schools to publish online information about how they have used the Pupil Premium. This will also ensure that parents and others are made fully aware of the attainment of pupils covered by the Premium.
• We will also be providing schools with information about the strategies and interventions which can improve the progress and attainment of pupils from poorer backgrounds.

Key Facts

The Pupil Premium is allocated to children from low income families who are currently known to be eligible for FSM both in mainstream and non- mainstream settings and children who have been continuously looked after for more than six months.

Total funding through Pupil Premium will increase £625m in 2011-2012 to 1.25bn in 2012-2013.

The level of Pupil Premium funding in 2011-2012 is £488 per pupil for pupils eligible for free school meals (FSM) and for children who have been continuously looked after for more than six months. It will increase to £600 in 2012-2013

The Government has decided that Eligibility for Pupil Premium in 2012-2013 will be extended to pupils who have been eligible for Free School Meals at any point in the last 6 years.

What differences does the funding make

In 2015-2016 we saw:

• Improved behaviour for group work
• Improved phonic scores in the screening check for Year 1 and 2
• The gap closed for Reception children joining Broadmeadow in September 2015
• Pupils receiving targeted interventions during school showed accelerated progress to the new national curriculum expected level

Overall data 2015-2016

• EYFS the gap narrowed between those eligible for the Pupil Premium Grant and those who are not.
• In Year 1: 15 out 17 children receiving pupil premium grant (no SEN) achieved the expected pass mark
• In Year 2 all 10 child receiving the pupil premium grant (no SEN) achieved the expected pass mark.
• KS1 in reading 65% of children receiving the pupil premium grant reached the expected level
• KS 1 in writing 46% of children receiving the pupil premium grant reached the expected level
• KS 1 in Maths 58% of children receiving the pupil premium grant reached the expected level
• Pupils and families received early support through Big Community or Malachi Trust Family Support Workers and attendance and behaviour improved for this children

Nature of Support

• We have an enhanced team of support staff who work across the school to ensure access to the curriculum by the provision of interventions in reading, writing and mathematics for children who are not making expected progress or not reaching the expected levels of attainment , or other children identified as needing extra support.
• Our SENCO is non-class based and provides targeted support for groups of children with SEND and eligible for pupil premium funding.
• The Head Teacher is responsible for monitoring attendance and keeps a close check on the attendance of all pupils but particularly those in significant groups such as SEN and Pupil Premium. We employ Big Community to work with families to reduce absence.
• Our Home School Link Worker supports families through workshops and meetings to reduce and overcome barriers to learning.
• 2 teaching assistants provide 1:1 and small group work supporting children in Reception with physical development, communication, reading, writing and maths.
• We provide support for children’s emotional, social and behavioural support through the services of our emotional well-being worker from Malachi Trust
• We use some of our funding to support covering the costs of enhanced curriculum including music, art, trips, theatre groups and workshops.

Our Objectives in spending our Pupil Premium funding are:

• To ensure effective provision is made for vulnerable pupils
• To accelerate the progress of identified pupils to at least age related expectations
• To narrow the “gap” for identified pupils

How are spending the Pupil Premium

Grant in 2016-2017 (£99,000)

TOTAL SPEND £99,500