Pupil Premium
OVERVIEW
The Pupil Premium Grant (known as ‘PPG’) was introduced by the government in April 2011. It provides additional funding to address the gap in educational attainment and long term economic wellbeing between socially disadvantaged children and young people, and their peers. All members of staff and governors accept responsibility for ‘socially disadvantaged’ pupils and are committed to meeting their pastoral, social and academic needs within the school environment. Atwood is committed to ‘Closing the Gap’ between vulnerable pupils, and the effective utilisation of the Pupil Premium Grant forms a vital part of that process.
Socially disadvantaged pupils have been defined as pupils eligible for free school meals (FSM) at some point in the last six years. Children who have been ‘looked after’ for one day or more, including those who have been adopted from care, also qualify for additional funding. This category now includes any child who has been registered for FSM in the past 6 years (known as ‘Ever 6 FSM’)
It is the responsibility of the Headteacher in consultation with the Member of the Academy Council (MACs) and other key staff to decide on how to spend the funding, but schools will be held accountable to show impact of the interventions and resources funded by the grant.
Click the PDFs below to read about about our pupil premium strategy and how we intend to spend money allocated to narrow the gap in the attainment of pupils.
Details of grant
We ensure that teaching and learning opportunities meet the needs of all of the pupils and we recognise that not all pupils who are socially disadvantaged are registered or qualify for free school meals.
In the academic year 2023-24 Atwood Primary School will have an allocation of £46,560 for Pupil Premium Grant (PPG) based on last year’s pupil numbers.
In the academic year 2023-24 Atwood Primary School will have an allocation of £5,800 of Recovery Premium Grant – distributed at based on the number of pupils qualifying for PPG.
SUMMARY OF MAIN BARRIERS TO ACHIEVEMENT IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2022/23
Trends in our data have identified the following areas as the main barriers which we aim to overcome using our additional funding for eligible pupils this academic year:
- Raise achievement in all subjects for PPG children especially for low-attaining children through targeted intervention;
- Monitor and target PPG children across the school to ensure that the performance of PPG children in all cohorts is in line with non disadvantaged peers and where it is not put support in place to diminish the difference;
- Monitor and target PPG children with high prior attainment (more able) to ensure high achievement
HOW WE WILL SPEND PPG TO ADDRESS THESE BARRIERS IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2023/24
We aim to target our spending to overcome these main barriers by:
- Funding some 1:1 and small group support intervention from teachers and teaching assistants to address areas where learning is either falling behind or could be further accelerated;
- Funding educational experiences for eligible children which enhance the curriculum and engender a life-long love of learning;
- Investing in reading s resources to support the development of reading at home;
- Where appropriate, supporting with after-school and pre-school care and clubs so that stability is established and attendance or punctuality can be addressed.
HOW WILL WE MEASURE THE IMPACT OF OUR PPG SPENDING DURING THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2023/24
We will measure the impact of our pupil premium spending by:
- Analysing performance tables which show the performance of disadvantaged pupils compared with their peers;
- Analysing in year data which looks at the progress and attainment of different groups of pupils within the school on a termly basis;
- Monitoring and evaluating the outcome of teacher and TA led intervention work regularly.
The review of the impact of our PPG spending strategy is ongoing throughout the year and reported to MACs (Governors).
For end-of-year attainment of PPG eligible children, a detailed break-down of how PPG was allocated and the impact of this expenditure on eligible and other pupils, please click on the PPG spending links below:
