Pupil Premium Information 2018 - 2019
Pupil Premium 2018 – 2019
Pupil Premium is allocated to students from low income families and there are criteria as to who and how students qualify. Schools are free to spend the Pupil Premium as they see fit. However we are accountable as to how the additional funding has been used to support pupils from low income families.
Our Pupil Premium allocation for 2018 – 2019 is £51,910 representing approximately 51% of pupils across the Vale School.
Key areas of planned expenditure for this year are:
· Additional Speech and Language Therapy input to enhance provision £17,000
· Additional staff support/interventions eg communication and access £20,000
· Wellbeing / psychotherapy £7,410
· Specialist music and yoga sessions (ready for learning) £7,500
Our Looked After Children receive additional specific funding, which will be spent on individual resources/provision for them
Impact of Pupil Premium for the year 2017/18
Amount of Pupil Premium Funding allocated: £44,330
|
Pupil premium Intervention |
Budget Allocation |
Description |
Impact |
|
Music therapy / peripatetic music sessions |
£7,330 |
1:1, small group and whole department music sessions as an enhancement of the curriculum |
Pupils’ self-confidence, expression and turn taking skills enhanced, impacting on learning and progress |
|
Additional Speech and Language Therapy input to enhance provision |
£17,000 |
Enhancement of health and LA provision of therapy to support individual pupils’ needs |
Progress across P-levels. Particular impact on communication and access to learning. |
|
Pupil interventions from additional staff |
£13,000 |
Additional 1:1 / 2:1 for access to the curriculum, additional time to carry out PODD intervention work |
Progress across P-levels.
Enhanced work in identified areas has impacted significantly on pupil progress |
|
Wellbeing / psychotherapy |
£7000 |
1:1 work with pupils and their families identified as needing support particularly with emotional needs. Parent group input |
Pupils’ self- confidence, emotional resilience enhanced impacting on readiness for learning in other areas. Parents feel supported impacting positively on wider needs of pupils. |
Year 7 catch up funding of £5400 was received for the year 2017-2018. This was spent on transition from Primary to Secondary for Year 7 pupils, with a focus on communication and individual interventions according to needs, including cover for staff liaison. In all, there were 11 pupils across 4 classes, who made expected or above expected progress.
Our Looked After Children receive additional specific funding, which has been spent on individual resources/provision for them relating to their learning needs, including music equipment, laptop and story sacks.
The PE and Sport Premium is a government funded initiative designed to improve the quality of PE and sports activities in primary schools.
Vale School's allocation for 2018/19 is £3419.
Vale School is a Project Ability school and we acknowledge the impact that a high quality physical education and school experience has on young people’s physical, social and cognitive development. We believe that an innovative, varied PE curriculum and extra-curricular opportunities in sport have a positive influence on the concentration, attitude, behaviour and academic achievement of all our students.
The PE and Sports Premium will contribute to continuing, developing and extending our provision by
- Hiring qualified PE and dance specialists to work alongside and upskill teachers/support staff when teaching PE
- Developing partnership work with local sports clubs and sport providers, particularly Tottenham Hotspur Foundation, Middlesex County Cricket Club, Step Into Dance and Panathlon Challenge
- Providing places for pupils on after school and holiday sport clubs and residential visits
- Developing partnership work with local schools to create higher quality provision
- Paying for professional development opportunities for staff and volunteers in PE/sport
- Providing cover to release teachers/support staff for professional development in PE/sport
- Developing and running sport competitions and increasing participation in the school games
- Developing the skills of young leaders to support primary aged pupils.
