Pupil Premium

The Pupil Premium is funding in addition to the school's budget. It was introduced in 2011 and is based on the number of pupils currently/previously entited to Free School Meals and Looked After from/in Care. Schools are are free to decide how to allocate this funding to best support the raising of attainment for the most vulnerable pupils.

Here at Kirkham and Wesham we are committed to ensuring that this funding is used to minimise barriers to learning and address any underlying inequalities for eligible pupils by ensuring that funding reaches the pupils who need it most.

Our commitment in this area was recognised by the Department for Education who wrote to our school in February 2016 stating that....we were one of the most improved schools in the country in terms of attainment and progress of disadvantaged pupils since 2011.

We continue to ensure that we analyse barriers to learning, analyse attainment and progress and put in appropriate strategies for all our disadvantaged pupils.

Pupil Premium expenditure for financial year 2018/19

Total amount of pupil premium allocated was £65,500.

Our key objective in using the P.P grant is to narrow the gap between pupils groups and to ensure that all children have the same opportunities to learn and achieve.

Some of our P.P children face challenges with:

punctuality/attendance
specific learning difficulties
social and emotional difficulties
complex home circumstances
low income
engagement in learning

Expenditure	Reason for Expenditure	Amount spent
Learning Mentor	to monitor and improve attendance and punctuality of key pupils to address and support social, emotional and behavioural difficulties to address barriers to learning as they occur, thus preventing issue preventing child progress in school to liaise with parents and families providing strategies to support parents at home and sign posting them to other agencies as necessary to liaise with other agencies and host multi-agency meetings and TAF meetings as required	£24,736
Specialist Maths T.A. Autumn and spring	to provide individual and group intervention to identified children in danger of falling behind to ensure more able mathematicians are given the opportunity to achieve to their full potential	£932
Specialist counselling service	to buy in to services such as New Start to address the emotional needs of pupils that require more specialist therapy than the learning mentor can provide	£1,200
Educational Psychologist	to access specialist advice to ensure we are able to effectively meet the needs of our more vulnerable pupils	£550
Staff training/supply cover	to ensure all children have access to quality first teaching	£1600
Additional teaching assistant hours	to enable small groups of children or individual pupils in danger of falling behind to receive intensive tuition to ensure more able children are given the opportunity to reach their full potential	£22,786
Esendi Specialist S.E.N.D Services	to identify pupils who may have specific leaning difficulties such as dyslexia, auditory processing, or Irlam Syndrome to plan targets and specific programs to meet the identified pupils needs	£7,795

Pupil Premium expenditure for financial year 2017/18

Total amount of pupil premium allocated was £65,120.

Our key objective in using the P.P grant is to narrow the gap between pupils groups and to ensure that all children have the same opportunities to learn and achieve.

Some of our P.P children face challenges with:

punctuality/attendance
specific learning difficulties
social and emotional difficulties
complex home circumstances
low income
engagement in learning

Expenditure	Reason for Expenditure	Amount spent
Learning Mentor	to monitor and improve attendance and punctuality of key pupils to address and support social, emotional and behavioural difficulties to address barriers to learning as they occur, thus preventing issue preventing child progress in school to liaise with parents and families providing strategies to support parents at home and sign posting them to other agencies as necessary to liaise with other agencies and host multi-agency meetings and TAF meetings as required	£24,437
Specialist maths Teacher in summer term	to provide individual and group intervention to identified children in danger of falling behind to ensure more able mathematicians are given the opportunity to achieve to their full potential	£1265
Specialist Maths T.A. Autumn and spring	to provide individual and group intervention to identified children in danger of falling behind to ensure more able mathematicians are given the opportunity to achieve to their full potential	665
Specialist counselling service	to buy in to services such as CCATS to address the emotional needs of pupils that require more specialist therapy than the learning mentor can provide	£990
Educational Psychologist	to access specialist advice to ensure we are able to effectively meet the needs of our more vulnerable pupils	£1550
Staff training/supply cover	to ensure all children have access to quality first teaching	£1800
Additional teaching assistant hours	to enable small groups of children or individual pupils in danger of falling behind to receive intensive tuition to ensure more able children are given the opportunity to reach their full potential	£20,191
Esendi Specialist S.E.N.D Services	to identify pupils who may have specific leaning difficulties such as dyslexia, auditory processing, or Irlam Syndrome to plan targets and specific programs to meet the identified pupils needs	£4975
Speech and Language Therapy	to provide 1-1 speech therapy sessions on a weekly basis for children identified as having difficulties in this area	£1800
SENDCO	to provide SENDCO time to meet with parents and agencies as required	£1979
SEN resources	to purchase SEN resources required to support pupils with SEND including NESSY and Cogmed	£595
Subsidies for music lessons	to ensure that pupils with musical ability have the opportunity to develop their skills in line with their peers	£320
Contribution to Forest Schools session	increase the engagement of identified children through access to forest schools activities	£300
Subsidies for residential visits and other visits	to ensure school is able to pay for board and lodgings in residential visits in line with our charging and remissions policy to ensure all children have the opportunity to access the 2 residential visits offered by school to ensure all children have the opportunity to take part in a wide range of visits to raise their aspirations and cultural capital	£2430
Purchase “bug online”	to give children access to a wider range of reading materials at home to increase resources available in school to develop comprehension and reading skills	£1430
Contribution to cost of Life Education Bus	to increase children’s awareness of a healthy lifestyle and the impact of their decisions on their body and their health	£393

Impact of last year’s pupil premium funding was discussed at SEC committees. In summary:

Y6 and Y1 ~ very good progress and high levels of attainment
Reception achieved at least in line with non-pupil premium but this was only just achieved with a lot of extra intervention.
Year 2 attainment was low and therefore we were focusing on addressing this with the pupils now in Y3. In the autumn term this was in relation to reading and phonics. In the spring term it’s writing linked to the forest school activities and in the Summer Term it will be Maths.
Pupil premium children are a focus for the regular termly progress meetings and included in teachers’ performance management targets.

OFSTED found that …. The additional funding for disadvantaged pupils is used effectively to ensure that the pupils receive support that closely matches their needs.

This is on line with our school self-evaluation.

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