St Augustine’s Pupil Premium

Introduction

The pupil premium was introduced in April 2011 by the government and is allocated to schools to work with pupils who have been registered for free school meals at any point in the last six years (known as ‘Ever 6 FSM’).  Schools also receive funding for children who have been looked after continuously for more than six months, and children of service personnel.

In 2019-20 there were 51 pupils entitled to pupil premium funding to support their learning and progress.  The total received was £70,260.00.

The following table indicates how the funding was spent.

Targeted spend for Year 2019/20 – Pupil Premium Pupils: (51 pupils)

The school’s focus is on the following areas:

• Supporting pupils with their emotional well-being
• High quality teaching and learning
• Accelerating pupil progress
• High quality provision for SEND pupils
• Extending the more able pupils
• Provide extra-curricular support as required

A provision map to track the progress of pupils will be maintained.  This will be reviewed on a termly basis, in discussions with senior staff members and class teachers.

Pupil Premium Impact 2019 – 2020

• Due to Covid-19 there are no SAT’s results to analyse and report. However, teacher assessment and internal school analysis indicates that the progress of pupil premium pupils across the school has been good, in part due to high levels of engagement with online learning.

• Emotional well-being is generally good, considering current global circumstances. All pupil premium children who presented with difficulties throughout the year have been supported through the ELSA programme and analysis of this through progress meetings with ELSA therapists show high levels of engagement. Children, and families, were supported through he lockdown period with regular well-being phonecalls by class teachers and/or 1:1s were appropriate.

• SEND provision is very well led with high satisfaction levels reported by parents of SEND pupils, and at least expected progress by pupils. Pupils were well supported online through adaptations to learning on Google Classroom.

• High quality teaching and learning is evident across the school and teachers adapted quickly and efficiently to remote learning procedures, ensuring that children were in receipt of high quality resources and lessons while working remotely.

• Support was given in terms of providing electronic resources for pupil premium children to enable them to access remote learning.

Targeted spend for Year 2018/19 – Pupil Premium Pupils: (46 Pupils):

The school’s focus was on the following areas

• Supporting pupils with their emotional well-being
• High quality teaching and learning
• Accelerating pupil progress
• High quality provision for SEND pupils
• Extending the more able pupils
• Provide extra-curricular support as required

A provision map to track the progress of pupils will be maintained.  This will be reviewed on a termly basis.

In 2018-19 there were 46 pupils entitled to pupil premium funding to support their learning and progress.  The total received was £63,660.00.

The following table indicates how the funding was spent.