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Pupil Premium
Valley Park School Pupil Premium Funding
Pupil Premium is a government grant given to schools to help them support those children that are the most disadvantaged, with a focus on raising attainment.
In the 2020-21 financial year, all schools will receive the following funding for each child registered as eligible for free school meals at any point in the last 6 years:
- £955 for secondary-aged pupils
Schools will receive £2,345 for any pupil:
- identified in the January 2020 school census or the alternative provision census as having left local authority care as a result of:
- adoption;
- a special guardianship order;
- a child arrangements order (previously known as a residence order).
- who has been in local authority care for 1 day or more;
- recorded as both eligible for FSM in the last 6 years and as being looked after (or as having left local authority care).
For pupils who attract the £2,345 rate, the virtual school head of the local authority that looks after the pupil will manage the funding.
In addition to this funding, schools are allocated funding to support the children whose parents are Service Personnel.
Pupil premium strategy statement
School overview
|
Metric |
Data |
|
School name |
Valley Park School |
|
Pupils in school |
1673 |
|
Proportion of disadvantaged pupils |
14.11% |
|
Pupil premium allocation this academic year |
£189,315.00 |
|
Academic year or years covered by statement |
2020-20201 |
|
Publish date |
1st December 2020 |
|
Review date |
15th September 2020 |
|
Statement authorised by |
Margaret Hutchinson |
|
Pupil premium lead |
Daniel Sargent |
|
Governor lead |
Nick Baster |
Disadvantaged pupil performance overview for last academic year
|
Progress 8 |
-0.47 |
|
Ebacc entry |
70% |
|
Attainment 8 |
37 |
|
Percentage of Grade 5+ in English and maths |
3% |
Strategy aims for disadvantaged pupils
|
Aim |
Target |
Target date |
|
Progress 8 |
Progress towards 0. Long term goal is for PP students P8 score to match non-PP students’ P8 score. |
September 2021 |
|
Attainment 8 |
51 (national average for PP students). |
September 2021 |
|
Percentage of Grade 5+ in English and maths |
10% (national average for PP students). |
September 2021 |
|
Ebacc entry |
15% (national average for PP students). |
September 2021 |
Teaching priorities for current academic year
|
Measure |
Activity |
|
Priority 1 |
Retention and professional development of quality English and Maths teachers including within Foundation Learning Department. |
|
Priority 2 |
Embed via form tutors and teachers our Accelerated Reader programme and our “Drop Everything and Read” initiative. As part of a coordinated approach, we have utilised some of our Literacy and Numeracy catch up funding to support the purchase of Accelerated Reader. |
|
Barriers to learning these priorities address |
Attendance rates for PP students is lower than non-PP students. Behaviour for learnings of some PP students presents a barrier to academic progress (see wider strategies, below).. |
|
Projected spending |
£75,000 |
Targeted academic support for current academic year
|
Measure |
Activity |
|
Priority 1 |
Numeracy and literacy pre-starters, led by the school’s PP Leaders, to support PP students in addressing academic weaknesses. |
|
Priority 2 |
Staff training coordinated by the school’s PP Leaders, regarding high quality feedback. Improving parental engagement through increased contact and dialogue, with the Pastoral Team, coordinated by the school’s PP Leaders. |
|
Barriers to learning these priorities address |
PP student attendance. (See wider strategies, below).
|
|
Projected spending |
£50,000 |
Wider strategies for current academic year
|
Measure |
Activity |
|
Priority 1 |
Supporting students in developing positive behaviour for learning through the pastoral year teams and catch-up mentors. |
|
Priority 2 |
Promote improvement in attendance amongst PP students through improving parent/school relations and ensuring equality of appearance and opportunity. |
|
Barriers to learning these priorities address |
Student/parent perceptions of school and education. Relationships between students, parents, and school staff. Purchasing of uniform and school equipment. |
|
Projected spending |
£65,000 |
Monitoring and implementation
|
Area |
Challenge |
Mitigating action |
|
Teaching |
Ensuring CPD opportunities allow staff to recognise the important contextual information impacting our students. |
Use of CPD evenings and inset days. Organised planning of CPD events. Regular review of impact by school PP Leads. |
|
Targeted support |
Ensuring that that mentors have enough time to meaningfully lead literacy and numeracy support groups. Engaging with external coaching provision for PP Leads throughout academic year 2020-21. |
Pupil Premium Leaders are each part of either the Maths or English department so can implement and support in the agreed interventions. Mentorship of new leadership of PP. |
|
Wider strategies |
Better engaging all families in education; particularly those that have struggled to engage historically. |
Working with the pastoral teams, the FLD department, the curriculum departments and the LA. |
Review: last year’s aims and outcomes
|
Aim |
Outcome |
Action/Learning Points |
|
PP students’ Progress 8 to be at or above zero |
Not achieved; PP strategy has historically closely focused on the outgoing year 11 PP cohort. |
PP strategy to commence from Year 7, focusing on the enabling effect of high quality reading skills. |
|
Improved rates of progress in English and Mathematics |
Not achieved; in part due to the national school closures in March. |
Reporting and accountability structures to reference progress of PP students and all virtual lessons to now be delivered live via Teams. |
|
Reduced number of exclusions for PP students |
Achieve, but the national lockdown was a mitigating circumstance. |
Will continue to monitor closely. |