Pupil Premium at Whitchurch Junior School
Purpose
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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 funding to tackle disadvantage reaches the pupils who need
it most.
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In most cases the Pupil Premium is allocated to schools and is clearly identifiable. It is for schools to decide how the Pupil Premium, allocated to schools per
FSM pupil, is spent, since they are best placed to assess what additional provision should be made for the individual pupils within their responsibility.
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For pupils from low-income families in non-mainstream settings, it is for the local authority to decide how to allocate the Pupil Premium. For instance it could
be allocated to the setting where they are being educated, or held by the local authority to spend specifically on additional educational support to raise the
standard of attainment for these pupils. The authority must consult non-mainstream settings about how the Premium for these pupils should be used.
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Schools are free to spend the Pupil Premium as they see fit. However they will be held accountable for how they have used the additional funding to support
pupils from low-income families. New measures will be included in the performance tables that will capture the achievement of those deprived pupils covered
by the Pupil Premium. From September 2012, we will also require schools to publish online information about how they have used the Premium. This will ensure
that parents and others are made fully aware of the attainment of pupils covered by the Premium.
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We will also provide schools with information about strategies and interventions which can improve the progress and attainment of pupils from poorer
backgrounds.
Key facts
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The Pupil Premium is allocated to children from low-income families who are currently known to be eligible for FSM in both mainstream and non-mainstream
settings and children who have been looked after continuously for more than six months.
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Total funding through the Premium will increase from £625m in 2011-12 to £1.25bn in 2012-13.
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The Pupil Premium was introduced in April 2011, and paid to local authorities by means of a specific grant based on January 2011 school census figures for
pupils registered as eligible for FSM in reception to Year 11. For looked after children the Pupil Premium was calculated using the Children looked after data
returns.
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The Pupil Premium was also paid to academies via the Young Peoples’ Learning Agency.
The level of the premium in 2011-12 is £488 per pupil for pupils eligible for free school meals (FSM) and for pupils in care who have been continuously looked
after for six months. It will increase to £600 per pupil in 2012-13.
Local authorities are responsible for looked after children in care and will make payments to schools and academies where an eligible looked after child is on
roll.
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The Government has decided that eligibility for the Pupil Premium in 2012-13 will be extended to pupils who have been eligible for free school meals (FSM)
at any point in the last 6 years. Earlier this year we consulted on options for extending the coverage of the Pupil Premium. As a group, children who have been
eligible for FSM at any point in time have consistently lower educational attainment than those who have never been eligible for FSM.
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Up to £50m of the £1.25bn will be used to support a Summer School programme to help the most disadvantaged pupils make the transition from primary to
secondary school. This approach received the highest support in the recent consultation with 44% of those responding backing its introduction.
Number of Children on Roll
Number of Children on FSM (%)
Total £ Received
Total allocated to Each Pupil
2012-13
FSM 70 pupils (19%)
2012-13
£783.00
362 children on role
£54,824
FSM 70 pupils (19%)
2013-13
362 children on role
2013-14
£86,400
£1234.00
Whitchurch Junior
School received £48k
for Pupil Premium in
2011-12
2012-13
Money spent per year
£15,000 was spent on
increasing number of
musical instruments
throughout the school
for their ‘Every Child a
Musician’ programme
Musicians Learning
Platform £1,200 per
annum
Curriculum Enrichment
£5,000 was spent on:
funding school trips,
Impact
2013-14
Future Plans
This programme gives all
pupils the opportunity to
learn to play a musical
instrument, not just
pupils that can afford
the ever increasing
costs of private tuition.
100% of pupils at
Whitchurch Junior
School learn how to play
a musical instrument and
are able to take home an
instrument for practice.
All pupils are taught for
a minimum of one hour
per week, and have
access to the musicians
learning platform. Each
pupil in each year group
will perform in a concert
every year, pupils that
show great progress are
encouraged to
participate in Borough
concerts and represent
the school in a number
of performances.
£10,000 spent on repairing
and updating instruments
to continue this successful
programme
This programme needs
annual investment. We are
estimating a spend of
approximately £5,000 per
year
Pupils enjoy and learn
from the numerous
curriculum enhancement
This will continue
throughout 2013-14
The school is passionate
about encouraging all
pupils to learn a musical
instrument. Some of the
funding from the pupil
premium enables all
pupils to have the
opportunity to learn to
play an instrument which
they can also practise at
home. In an outstanding
Year 6 music lesson all
pupils were effectively
learning to play
different types of
instruments which
helped to strengthen
their listening, appraisal
and thinking skills
Ofsted 32013
This will be an ongoing cost
of approximately £5 £8,000 per year.
coaches, swimming
activities,
£20,000 Staffing, staff
training and Ruth Miskin
phonics and reading
scheme resources, for
small group and
individual interventions
with a focus on phonics,
vocabulary and reading.
After school activities
and half funding
residential trips £5,000
activities and
opportunities that take
place throughout the
year. Without funding
and voluntary parent
contributions it would be
difficult to ensure these
activities continue
The school runs a
reading intervention and
tutoring programme 3
times a week. Pupils are
working within small
groups or on an
individual basis, with
carefully chosen
resources to enable
catch up in phonics and
reading. This has been
an extremely successful
programme and tracking
of data proves this is
working.
The school is now
running 20 after school
clubs, the vast majority
of these are free to
enable all pupils to
participate. We have
spent money on
purchasing resources
for the clubs, ie tap
This has been very
successful and reading
results throughout each
year group have increased.
A further investment of
£2,000 will be made to
purchase the new series of
Talisman and to replace
missing books from the
existing series
£20,000 Staffing, staff
training
Training is in place and the
interventions have been
embedded throughout the
school. We estimate that
the cost of continuing to
support pupils in
interventions will be
between £10,000-£20,000
(annual cost)
This will continue
throughout the school. 90%
of pupils are accessing
these clubs. Seasonal craft
clubs have now been
included
We are hoping to get 100%
of pupils involved in a
school club. Priority is
given to pupils on FSM.
Bug Club £4,000
Out of school activities
£1,000
Free breakfast
£700
shoes, chess boards,
new football kit. 90% of
pupils are in a school
club. Surveys show that
pupils are positive and
are enjoying
participating in their
chosen clubs. The school
ensures that both the
library and ICT suite
are open for pupils and
parents three days each
week until 5pm.
This enables all pupils to
have access to a wide
selection of books at
home. This is part of the
schools focus on driving
up standards of reading
across the school.
Feedback from pupils,
parents and teachers is
extremely positive.
We support pupils on
FSM to pay for out of
school clubs, such as
Brownies’, Scouts, dance
All pupils on FSM are
invited to the free
breakfast club. This
runs four times a week.
Pupils are able to choose
Comic phonics and phonic
basics to be purchased
£2,500
An annual subscription plus
replacement of hard copy
books.
To continue to support
pupils on FSM and are CLA
Ongoing cost
This will continue, and has
been very well attended.
The uptake has increased
significantly and the annual
cost is now £1,500
Ongoing cost
Uniforms and school
shoes £1,000
Anger Management
£3,000
Social skills teaching,
with a focus on
resilience, change and
transition.
£6,000
Parent Ambassador
Programme £200
from a selection of
healthy breakfast foods
and drinks including
fruit juices and low
sugar hot chocolate.
The school provides
pupils with uniform, PE
kits and school shoes
when and where
necessary.
The school buys in the
services of a
professional skilled in
working on strategies
for pupils who have
difficulty in dealing with
every day disagreements
or change of routine.
The school buys in the
services of a teacher
trained in art therapy
and social skills
strategies.
To encourage parents
from hard to reach
groups into school. To
look at parents
supporting other
parents, specifically
with language barriers
and how to support
children at home. This
This will continue
Ongoing cost
This will continue and has
been successful in
supporting a number of
pupils.
Ongoing i
This has been extremely
successful and will continue
throughout 2013-14
Ongoing
The school did not have the
time capacity to introduce
in 2012-13, so will now be a
focus in 2013-14
We would like to further
develop this for next year,
and hope to train more
parents and encourage
further increased
attendance from parents.
runs alongside
fortnightly workshops
and parent café.
Supporting pupils joining
the school with no
English
Disability Swimming and
sports
PAT (Pets as Therapy)
Total Expenditure
£59,700
This is higher than total
pupil premium income
due to the initial outlay
for music equipment.
This cost will reduce.
The school has many new
pupils, and increasing, that
have joined the school with
no English. Extra support
has been provided to teach
English to these identified
pupils, and pupils still to
join the school
£20,000
Transport and swimming
lessons
£3,500
A dog, Hotspur, comes into
school once per week to
listen to reluctant readers
and pupils that do not have
the opportunity to read at
home. This has supported
pupil motivation,
attendance and inspired
our readers
£500
£81,000
Evidence of Impact
Raise 2012 shows:
Level 4 at the end of Key Stage 2
Level 5 at the end of Key Stage 2
Evidence of Impact
Raise 2013-2014
No of
pupils
2010
Sch
Nat
APS APS
FSM
11
26.5
25
Diff.
up
1.5
No of
pupils
14
2011
Sch
Nat
APS APS
28.2
25.4
Diff.
up
2.8
No of
pupils
19
2012
Sch
Nat
APS APS
30.5
26.6
Diff.
up
3.9
No of
pupils
26
2013
Sch
Nat
APS APS
31.2
26.7
Diff.
up
4.5
Evidence of Impact
Quotes from Ofsted January
2013
Pupil premium funding is efficiently used to ensure that all pupils get the right support needed.
This includes providing extra staffing and training for teaching in small groups, and giving extra
individual tuition. Consequently, these pupils make faster progress than all pupils nationally as
shown when comparing their average points scores
There are no underachieving groups as all pupils make faster progress than pupils nationally.
Teachers plan carefully and cater for the diverse needs of their pupils. As a result, disabled
pupils and those with special educational needs, those with English as an additional language
and pupils from minority ethnic backgrounds all attain significantly above all pupils nationally.
Those pupils eligible for free school meals are attaining almost as well as those who are not, and
attainment for both groups is well above the national average. Progress in English and
mathematics is broadly similar for both groups and is significantly above average in all subjects