Pupil Premium

Pupil Premium Objectives 2023-24

DfE Guidance on Pupil Premium Funding

The Pupil Premium was introduced in April 2011. Schools can make decisions about how to spend the Pupil Premium funding to ensure that there is a narrowing of the attainment gap. The Pupil Premium provides funding for pupils:

pupils who qualify for free school meals, or have done at any time in the past six years (£1035 per child)

pupils who have a parent serving in the armed forces (£320 per child)

pupils who are in the care of, or provided with accommodation by an English local authority (LA) (looked after children LAC) (£2530 per child)

pupils who were looked after by an English or Welsh local authority before being adopted, or who left care on a special guardianship order or child arrangements order (Post LAC) (£2530 per child)

Schools are held accountable for the spending of these monies, and performance tables will capture the achievement of disadvantaged students covered by the Pupil Premium.

Academic Year: 2023-24	Total Pupil Premium Budget: (1/4/23 – 31/3/24) is £60350
Total Number of students: 1395 (April – April)	Number of students eligible for Pupil Premium: 59

Planned Expenditure

Quality of teaching

Action	Intended Outcome	Evidence/Rationale	How will we ensure it is implemented well?	Staff Lead and expected cost	Review date
1. Provision of resources required for the classroom (including ingredients for food technology), for homework or revision across the curriculum.	Students have the same access to resources to complete homework and revision.	EEF Toolkit July 2018	HODS to liaise with the finance team regularly to ensure funding is provided where needed.	HODs BON £7080	January 2024
2. In class intervention – quality first teaching	Student make the same progress as their peers	The Sutton Trust Report (2011)	Discussions at each monitoring period. Review of the interventions being offered by staff across all subjects. Discussions following every lesson observation. Learning walks.	All staff	February 2024
3. To fund Seneca subscription	Students have access to self-directed learning activities including exam style papers, more efficient and fun hyper learning courses as well as revision materials and quizzes and the best memory techniques.	Education Endowment Foundation: Metacognition and Self-Regulation Report	Review of student use as well as student voice	BON RBS £1200	June 2024

Other Approaches

Action	Intended Outcome	Evidence/Rationale	How will we ensure it is implemented well?	Staff lead and expected cost	Review date
4. To fund additional time for Connexions to hold 1:1 meetings with pupil premium students as well as some group sessions, available for all to access.	Students have aspirations about their future choices	Education Endowment Foundation: Aspiration Interventions (not done in isolation)	Monitoring and feedback	GAV £1392	July 2023
5. To offer all those in receipt of pupil premium the opportunity to participate in extra-curricular activities at school which may incur a cost (e.g.) (peripatetic music lessons, LAMDA exams, DoE). The school to contribute to the cost of either hire of specialist equipment or for the actual instruction itself if appropriate. This will be done in line with DfE guidance.	Inclusive access to the curriculum, extra-curricular life of the school, regardless of family income	Council for Learning Outside the Classroom – Paper on Using Pupil Premium funding for learning outside of the classroom.	Gather and monitor PP student involvement in these extra-curricular activities.	BON £5166	April 2023
6. To maintain the daily allocation of an extra £0.85 for all students eligible for FSM in addition to the £2.65 meal day per day to purchase a snack at Rec.	To improve rates of concentration throughout the day. To ensure all students have access to breakfast and a hot meal.	Student feedback	Liaising with finance to ensure all eligible students are in receipt of the additional money.	BON Sodexo £9614	July 2023
7. Students have access to £200 every year for any residential or extra-curricular trips. This will be done in line with the current DfE guidance.	Inclusive access to the curricular and extra-curricular life of the school, regardless of family income.	Council for Learning Outside the Classroom – Paper on Using Pupil Premium funding for learning outside of the classroom.	Trip leaders to liaise regularly with finance to ensure PP students have access to non-curriculum educational visits. Monitor participation in the residential trips.	BON Trip leaders Finance £11,600	May 2024
8. Contribution to transport costs for students.	This does not become a barrier for students to attend school and arrive on time.	Travel is not a barrier for students, parents/carers	Ensure funding is allocated to students who live over 2 miles from school and that the funding is given each term.	Finance BON Admissions £10,440	July 2023
9. Contribution to the cost of uniform for students in Years 7 -11 (including students in Year 6 and those going into the sixth form at AGGS). £200 per student.	PP students have the correct uniform and are able to participate in PE and Dance lessons.	Parental feedback	Ensure funding provided in a timely way prior to the end of term, including new joiners in Year 6. Liaising with finance and the uniform suppliers to ensure vouchers are ready and can be used.	Finance BON £13,800	September 2024