Proposed spend of Pupil Premium and Catch-Up Premium- 2015-16
The Pupil Premium provides funding for pupils:
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who have been in receipt of free school meals (FSM) at any point in the past 6 years (£1320
per primary child, £935 per secondary child)
who have been continuously looked after for the past six months (£1900 per child)
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who are adopted from care under the Adoption and Children Act 2002 or who have
left care under a Special Guardianship or Residence Order (£1,900)
for children whose parents are currently serving in the armed forces, or whose parent
/guardian is in receipt of a pension from the MoD (£300 per child)
Schools are held accountable for the spending of these monies, performance tables will capture the
achievement of disadvantaged students covered by the Pupil Premium.
Newfield School is committed to providing effective resources and ensuring vital support is in place
for our disadvantaged students to improve their academic outcomes.
This document details the proposed spend of the Pupil Premium 2015/16.
A proportion of the Pupil Premium is committed to maintaining the provision for disadvantaged
students that is currently in place.
Pupil Premium 2015 – 2016 £52012
The four key objectives:
1. Transition: to improve transition and attainment outcomes for PP* students to ensure
attainment is in line with or exceeding expected levels of progress
2. Literacy: to maintain the reading scheme intervention to improve the reading age of
students whose reading age is below national average
3. Engagement: to improve curriculum engagement and academic achievement for PP students
4. Attendance: to implement strategies addressing the attendance gap between for PP non PP
students
(*PP – referring to any student in receipt of Free School Meals in the past 6 years)
Newfield School Pupil Premium Plan 2015 – 2016 (Adapted from Heath School)
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Key Objective 1: Transition: to improve transition and attainment outcomes for PP* students to
ensure attainment is in line with or exceeding expected levels of progress
Action : Deployment of TAs/ Learning Mentors
TAs directed to support intervention.
Learning Mentors allocated to remove barriers to learning, engage parents and enhance academic
progress, working with students who are below national expectation of attainment for Eng/ma.
Rational : Sutton document ‘One-to-one tutoring+5 months moderate impact’
‘For pupils eligible for free school meals (FSM) with lower prior attainment, those who received tuition
were more likely to achieve Level 4 at KS2 and to make two levels of progress than those who did not
receive tuition.’
Evaluation of the Making Good Progress Pilot (2010). DCSF Research Report RR184.
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) LLP.
Dates
Person
Monitoring and
COST
Success Criteria
responsible
Evaluation
Sept 2015
EW
Tracking and monitoring
data of PP cohort via
data collection, student
feedback, exit data,
progress coordinator
data analysis
IEP 3 weekly monitoring
of progress towards
targets
Interventions
communicated with
parents prior to
commencement.
TAs and LMs
communicate
progress towards
targets on a 3 weekly
basis
A reduction in the
attainment gap of PP
and non PP students
in Yrs2/3, 6/7, and
9/10 from Sept 2015
– June 2016 in
mathematics and
English levels
Action: Access to music workshops
Pupils access music workshops (BS, DS and LC)
Rational:
To build engagement, confidence and support therapeutic needs
Dates
Person
Monitoring and
COST
responsible
Evaluation
Sept 15
SP
EW to have pre and post
action meeting with SP
on activities
EW to evaluate pupil
qualitative feedback in
relation to engagement
in school
Success Criteria
Pupil views
demonstrate positive
impact on
confidence, social
skills, out of school
positive activities
and therapeutic
support
Newfield School Pupil Premium Plan 2015 – 2016 (Adapted from Heath School)
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Action: Invest in pupil uniform for new admissions
Pupils have a full uniform, including PE Kit
Rational:
To enable them to feel part of the community and to come to school ready to learn
Dates
Person
Monitoring and
COST
Success Criteria
responsible
Evaluation
LD, EW
All new pupils
receive voucher for
uniform
All new pupils wear
uniform to school
Key Objective 2: Embed the reading scheme to improve the reading age of students whose reading
age is below national average.
Action: Reading scheme All students whose attainment falls below the national expectations for
reading and functional literacy are supported during registration time by TAs to follow reading scheme.
Cohort identified from reading data.
Sept 2015 –
July 2016
EW to check with LD
that pupils receive
allocated voucher for
uniform
Rational: Sutton document stresses that improving literacy improves student outcomes overall.
Thereby reducing the attainment variation between PP and non-PP.
Dates
Person
Monitoring and
COST
Success Criteria
responsible
Evaluation
Starting
Sept 2015
EW (PR and
GR lead)
EW - Reading level
Read Write Inc.
assessment at start of
(primary)
year to identify cohort.
Fresh start
TA assessment upon exit (Secondary)
from the scheme (Mar
2016 – TAs)
Interim monitoring by
Dec 2015
Reading levels
improve to enable
greater access to the
curriculum. Reading
age (RA) expected
progress. RA to
make at least 6
months progress in
reading.
Underachievers in
literacy and Maths
on progress by April
2016 unless SEN
need below this rate
of progress
CLA on progress
where specified on
PEP Summer 2015
and costed
Pupils access reading
in secondary
classrooms
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Action : Reading champions Students identified as Reading Buddies, trained (by SENCO) to provide
reading support to the under achieving students
Rational : Sutton Trust document Peer tutoring/peer-assisted learning, +6 months, High impact for low
cost.
Parental involvement, +3 months, moderate impact for moderate costs.
‘All effective partnership schemes provide poorer readers with substantially increased time for reading,
supported by a more skilled reader who has received structured training and receives on-going support.
Focused training for the tutors is essential, so that they know what to do when a reader falters or
makes an error’ What works for students with literacy difficulties? The effectiveness of intervention
schemes. Third edition. DCSF. By G, Brooks. (2007)
‘Training parents to teach specific reading skills to their children – a particularly effective approach that
can be more than twice as effective as encouraging parents to listen to their children read.‘(Institute of
Education – Review of Best Practice in Parental Engagement: Practitioners Summary, 2011)
Dates
Person
Monitoring and
COST
Success Criteria
responsible
Evaluation
Sept 2015
EW CN
Sept 2015 –
July 2016
Virtual Head,
Sefton LA
Reading level
assessment at start of
year to identify cohort.
Assessment upon exit
from the scheme.
Success Criteria:
Reading Buddies
successfully trained
by end of Sept 2015
Training and
commitment
rewarded by the
implementation of a
Reading Buddy
award, recognising
leadership and wider
contribution to the
school termly in
celebration assembly
Students reading age
improves by April
2016
Parents attend ‘how
to support your
child’s reading’
workshops
Letterbox Club focuses on improving the educational outlook of looked after, and other vulnerable
children who need additional support aged 5-13, by providing them with a parcel of books, maths
activities and stationery items once every month for six months.
“children failing to achieve basic levels of literacy and numeracy.” – David Laws MP 2013
Dates
Person
Monitoring and
COST
Success Criteria
responsible
Evaluation
NIL
Vulnerable students
enrolled on the
Letterbox
programme
Feedback on
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materials and uses.
Improved pupils’
reading ages by July
2016
Improved Maths
progress by July 2016
Key Objective 3: To improve curriculum engagement and academic achievement for students
Action: Implement an academic subsidy to enable PP students to fully access the curriculum and
reduce attainment gap.
Rational: Sutton document ‘the choices that schools make in allocating the money will be vital so that
the funding can help raise pupils’ attainment and aspirations.’
All framework holders may make a bid for this fund .Examples of spending may include revision guides,
resources for technology, staffing for PP workshops etc, all of which must have a direct impact
curriculum attainment.
Dates
Person
Monitoring and
COST
Success Criteria
responsible
Evaluation
Sept 2015
EW
Progress of students
provided with support
to be monitored to
ensure value for money.
Departments to justify
spend in academic
terms.
Termly review and
impact forms
Raising Progress
Subject Bids £10000
SEN interventions
£1000
SEN Interventions
provided where
needed
Attainment gap
between PP and non
PP reduces. PP
students make
progress in line with
expectations.
Wellbeing £85
Redress the stress
£1000
Mindfulness
resources £35
Self-harm training
£800
OSSME £1600
Lucid Assessment
software
Action: Implement an engagement subsidy to enable PP students to fully access the extra-curricular
and financially dependent curriculum activities and reduce attainment gap, support those students
who do not have breakfast and support students with home-based learning by supporting staff to
enable after school access.
Rational: National College Research cites effective embedded reward policies as being a contributory
factor to improving attainment and engagement.
Sept 2015
EW and LT
Breakfast club
Breakfast club
Ensure breakfast
£10000
available for any
CLA/PP in need to
ensure an effective
start to the school
day
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Action: Research into how developing leadership, leadership skills and developing Lead Learners can
impact on progress and attainment of the most vulnerable
Rational: EEF ‘teaching metacognition and self-regulating strategies tends to be particularly effective
with lower achieving pupils as well as older students’ +8 months impact (Sutton Trust Toolkit 2014)
Spring 2016 EW
INSET / staff meeting
Staff integrate
onwards
time
metacognition into
Data for cohort selected
lessons and this is
Trail of initiative with
evidenced with
key group in Year 10
lesson observations
Key Objective 4: Attendance: to implement strategies addressing the attendance gap between PP
and non PP students (link to Attendance Recovery Plan)
Action: Embed strategies to promote good attendance of PP students and reduce the attendance gap
between PP and Non PP students
Rational: EEF ‘the choices that schools make in allocating the money will be vital so that the funding
can help raise pupils’ attainment and aspirations.’
For example, at secondary level PP pupils are three times more likely than their peers to be classed as
'persistently absent' – i.e., to miss more than one in five school days across the year. Similarly, PP pupils
are three times more likely to receive two or more fixed-period exclusions across the year.
Intervention for targeting attendance
LPPA – to help target hard to reach parents
During PSHE and registration weekly target of PP attendance cohort
Rewards – for cohort for improved attendance, extended to.
Two tiers approach alongside Non PP rewards and incentives for att.
Rewards to maintain PP att.
Incentives to address poor pp att.
Dates
Person
Monitoring and
COST
responsible
Evaluation
Sept 2015
EW
Tracking and monitoring
of progress in Eng/ma of
students receiving
academic mentoring.
Intervention to promote
attendance
PCs to monitor rewards
for all attendance with
specific focus on PP
students
Jujitsu £2400
Taxis £3000
Lockers £850
Cheerleaders £160
Success Criteria
Attendance gap
between PP and non
PP reduces. PP pupils
attain 95% att
average
Attendance gap
between PP and non
PP reduces. PP pupils
attain 95% att
average
Taxis for students
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Catch- Up Premium 2015 – 2016 ( x £500) = £
Objective
Intervention
Monitoring & Evaluation
Literacy
Letterbox
Feedback from
Ma & Eng
Students/parents
Increased use of library
for cohort
Numeracy &
Literacy
1:1 support– targeting
those students for
support within lessons
who are working below
L4
Data reassessment and
intervention resources
Lesson obs
Rewards
Purchase of suitable
rewards to maintain
motivation and to reward
attainment and progress
– letter s home to
parents, badges,
motivational stickers,
Break reward
Data
£135 per
student
(supplied
by Virtual
HT)
Cost
£0
Success Criteria
Improvement in
reading levels –
75% cohort to
be secure L4
Reading by
October 2016
L4s make
progress in line
with their peers
and reduce the
attainment gap
£
Total £
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Outline plan 2015 - 2016
Action
SENCo SEN access and interventions (equipment etc)
Breakfast Club
School Uniforms
Taxis
Jujitsu
Cheerleaders
Redress the Stress Package
Lockers
Mindfulness Resources
Well-being toolkit
OSSME
Self-Harm training
Lucid Assessment Software
Raising progress subject bids
Total so far
Contingency
Cost
1000
10000
Total
£52000
(approx.)
Proposed Total Spend of:
£30930
Out of :
£52000
Contingency
£21070
3000
2400
160
1000
850
35
85
1600
800
10000
30930
21070
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