Pupil premium strategy statement

Each child that qualifies for Pupil premium grant has different needs and challenges and their support is also bespoke. Because each pupil has different barriers and different “gaps” or difficulties our strategy is to approach the disadvantaged group in the same way as we would with a child who has special needs or a learning difficulty. In both cases we invest a lot of effort and time in nurturing a child’s confidence and really praising effort and achievement with regular discussion. Along with our COVID catch up grant we have pooled the money to organise children into small groups of 15 or less and with 2 adults. This gives us an excellent pupil to adult ratio and so we are able to support and stretch pupils with their everyday learning objectives and so avoid withdrawal work (which can lead to the child missing their current work and becoming increasingly behind.)For example when learning about column addition with tens and units a child might be struggling with a difficulty counting in tens. The high adult to pupil ratios mean that within the lesson we can be flexible enough to give them counting in ten games, practical grouping of objects and pictorial scaffolds tailored to their speed of concept acquisition so that within the lesson they are encouraged to catch up with historical concept misunderstandings while keeping up with the current learning.

Pupils are tested at the end of each term at and their results are monitored. This termly tracking data is analysed and shows that Pupil premium interventions were effective as the majority of pupil premium pupil’s rate of progress was at least, or more than, chronologically expected. This monitoring also considers pupil’s special educational needs.

Total spend: £25,865

To employ additional teacher and apprentice T.A.