Pupil Premium
What is Pupil Premium?
The pupil premium grant is additional funding for publicly funded schools in England. It’s a school-level grant that gives schools extra resources to help them meet challenges, including those arising from deprivation.
It’s allocated for schools to:
- improve the academic outcomes of disadvantaged pupils of all abilities
- close the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers across the country
The Vale School Pupil Premium Online Statement
The Vale School receives funding for each disadvantaged pupil and uses the funding flexibly, in the best interests of each eligible pupil. GLF leaders draw upon an evidence based approach to apply a ‘tiered’ approach to delivering their pupil premium strategy.
Tier 1: Improving Teaching
- Schools arrange training and professional development for all their staff to improve the impact of teaching and learning for pupils.
Tier 2: Academic support
Schools should decide on the main issues stopping their pupils from succeeding at school and use the pupil premium to buy extra help.
Tier 3: Wider approaches
This may include non-academic use of the pupil premium such as:
- school breakfast clubs
- music lessons for disadvantaged pupils
- help with the cost of educational trips or visits
- speech and language therapy
Schools may find using the pupil premium in this way helps to:
- increase pupils’ confidence and resilience
- encourage pupils to be more aspirational
- benefit non-eligible pupils
A longer term strategy
The Vale School takes a longer view of the support the grant provides. Leaders plan the use of the grant to support children as they pass through the whole school to the next stage of their education/Destination. We do this by aligning our pupil Premium strategy with our wider school improvement planning
GLF’s Aspiration for All children to Grow, Learn, and Flourish
All GLF Schools are committed to our core remit of providing an outstanding educational experience. Raising the attainment of disadvantaged pupils is part of our commitment to help all pupils achieve their full potential.
We aim for:
- All children to enjoy their learning, attain high outcomes and be helped to become confident individuals and responsible citizens whilst making excellent progress in all respects;
- All children to benefit from an inclusive ethos, excellent teaching and a broad and balanced curriculum underpinned by strong leadership, in a local school;
- All children to be supported and encouraged to lead healthy and active lives
Accessing the Pupil Premium funding at The Vale School
Funding is allocated to the school based on an annual basis. It is important that if you think your child is eligible for pupil premium support, you must contact the school office for more information. Individual requests for financial support for school-based activities are considered by the Head teacher. Requests can be made via the school office. Important: To find out more information on whether you are eligible for Free School Meals, please click here.
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Pupil Premium Documents:
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● The Vale School Online statement (including review of 2018/19 expenditure)
Pupil premium strategy statement
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Metric
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Data
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School name
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The Vale Primary School
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Pupils in school
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168
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Proportion of disadvantaged pupils
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16%
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Pupil premium allocation this academic year
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£27,860
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Academic year or years covered by statement
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2020/21
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Publish date
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October 2020
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Review date
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October 2021
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Statement authorised by
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Debbie Matthews – Chair of Governors
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Pupil premium lead
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Cathy Browne (Co-Head)
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Governor lead
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Debbie Matthews
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Please see our published Performance Tables for Current Attainment
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Strategy aims for disadvantaged pupils
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Measure
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Activity
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Priority 1
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Ensuring staff use evidence-based whole-class teaching interventions to raise attainment for the most disadvantaged pupils - in phonics
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Priority 2
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Ensuring staff use evidence-based whole-class teaching interventions to raise attainment for the most disadvantaged pupils - in writing
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Priority 3
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Ensuring staff use evidence-based whole-class teaching interventions to raise attainment for the most disadvantaged pupils - mastery in maths
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Barriers to learning these priorities address
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Ensuring staff use evidence-based whole-class teaching interventions
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Projected spending
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£2,000
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Teaching priorities for current academic year
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Aim
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Target
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Target date
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Progress in Phonics
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Achieve National Average Expected Standard in PSC
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Summer 2021
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Progress in Writing
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Achieve National Average Expected Standard in KS1
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Summer 2021
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Progress in Mathematics
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Achieve national average progress scores in KS2 Maths
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Summer 2021
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Explore and embed principles of Mastery across other curriculum subjects
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Reviewed curriculum shows evidence of Mastery Principles
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Summer 2021
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Targeted academic support for current academic year
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Measure
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Activity
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Priority 1
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Intervention groups for Phonics (using Read, Write, Inc); maths, reading and writing (using PiXL membership, assessments and resources)
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Priority 2
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Thrive Approach to strengthen the social and emotional resilience of pupils and re-engagement to learning - employ Thrive practitioner and resource the provision.
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Barriers to learning these priorities address
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Providing catch up in phonics and core-subjects and improving readiness for learning.
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Projected spending
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£18,000
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Wider strategies for current academic year
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Measure
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Activity
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Priority 1
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Ensure appropriate training for admin personnel related to attendance officer role
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Priority 2
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Ensure our most disadvantaged pupils are included in benefiting from all curriculum activities e.g. trips and clubs and potential wrap around care when appropriate.
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Barriers to learning these priorities address
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Improving attendance and readiness to learn for the most disadvantaged pupils
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Projected spending
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£7,860
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Monitoring and Implementation
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Area
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Challenge
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Mitigating action
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Teaching
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Ensuring enough time is given and CPD opportunities to allow for staff professional development
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Use of twilight sessions and additional cover being provided by SLT
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Targeted support
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Ensuring enough time for teachers to analyse class information and identify pupils and provision
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Use of Twilight sessions and supportive meetings with SLT members
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Wider strategies
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Engaging with families facing most challenges
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Working with a variety of professional agencies, EWO and GLF
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Review: last year’s aims and outcomes
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Aim
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Outcome
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Improve progress of all PP children in phonics – Achieve National Average Expected Standard in PSC
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Steady improvement in disadvantaged pupil progress from 2019-2020 from teacher assessment taken in the Spring term before main school closure. On track towards aim.
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Improve progress in writing in KS1 – Achieve National Expected Standard KS1 writing
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This target was on track to be achieved. 77% of Y2 children were on track to meet ARE from their Point in time) Teacher Assessment in the Spring Term before main school closure.
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Achieve national average progress scores in Maths at KS2
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86% of children were on track to make ARE and 41% GD. This would have meant we were on track to attain national average progress scores.
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Reviewed curriculum shows evidence of mastery principles in History
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Lesson design and delivery of mastery principles were evident in year groups for history in school effectiveness review. This now needs to be more evident in the recording of children’s learning.
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Readiness for learning
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Thrive profiling highlight improvements in pupil emotional development and teachers report improved engagement in the classroom before school closure due to Covid-19 in March 2020. We will continue to have this as a main area of priority as we re-engage children in learning this academic year.
We will continue to use PiXL’s systems and processes to identify gaps in learning and as a whole class and group resource for intervention to plug gaps to support readiness for learning new skills and content.
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Improve school attendance and that of our families facing most challenges
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We will need to continue with this aim this year in the light of School Closure due to the Covid-19 Pandemic in 2020 where attendance fluctuated.
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