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Pupil Premium

At Grange Primary School, we pride ourselves on having high aspirations and ambition for all pupils, regardless of their background. It is our mission to enable and equip children to develop confidence and use knowledge and skills in order to be successful in line with our school vision of ‘Living, Learning and Laughing’. Our mission is to ensure that every pupil achieves academic success.

Grange Primary school recognises that children in receipt of pupil premium may need differentiated assistance to allow them to access the school curriculum in all its forms. Our aim is to enable all pupils to achieve their potential and the following steps are to support those pupils who may need additional intervention, and acknowledgement to ensure that every child has the best opportunity, regardless of whether they are identified as a Pupil Premium child or not. Whilst being eligible for FSM and Pupil Premium, some children in this cohort may not be low attaining but may not be maximising their full potential. We must therefore never confuse eligibility for the Pupil Premium with low ability.

What is Pupil Premium

Pupil premium is funding to improve education outcomes for disadvantaged pupils in schools in England.

The grant is allocated to:

  • raising the educational attainment of disadvantaged pupils of all abilities to help them reach their potential
  • providing support for children and young people with parents in the regular armed forces

Schools are given a pupil premium for:

  • Children who are eligible for free school meals (FSM) have been at any point in the past six years (FSM Ever 6) 
  • Children who have been looked after by a local authority or other state care. 

How is Pupil Premium money spent?

We are committed and dedicated to supporting all disadvantaged children to achieve the highest levels possible in all aspects. We do this by ensuring our pupil premium strategy follows the Education Endowment Foundation's (EEF'S) evidence-informed tiered approach which is allocated across 3 key areas:

  • Developing high-quality teaching, for example through professional development and recruitment and retention
  • Providing targeted academic support, such as one-to-one or small group tuition
  • Tackling non-academic barriers to academic success, such as difficulties with attendance, behaviour and social and emotional wellbeing.

Developing quality first teaching

  • Developing high quality teaching, assessment and a curriculum which responds to the needs and local context of our of pupils
  • Providing teaching staff professional development on evidence-based approaches that have an impact on pupils’ development, for example, we are currently developing our understanding of Metacognition and how this drives and aids recall and retention in pupils knowledge.
  • Mentoring and coaching of all staff through team teaching, peer support and co-planning sessions
  • Technology and other resources focus on supporting high quality teaching and learning.

Targeted Intervention Support

  • Interventions to support early language development, reading, writing and numeracy are targeted through pupil progress meetings following summative assessments and regular formative assessment feedback
  • Activity and resources to meet the specific needs of disadvantaged pupils with SEND.
  • Teaching assistant deployment and interventions. Such as our 'Nessy' sessions with Miss Buss or our wellbeing sessions with Mrs Turner. For more information about these interventions please see our SEND and Wellbeing pages.
  • One to one and small group tuition
  • Peer tutoring

Tackling non academic barriers

  • Supporting pupils’ social, emotional and behavioural needs with our dedicated wellbeing practitioner and our whole school PSHE curriculum, as well as our thriving approach towards behaviour management
  • Supporting attendance with our support first approach towards attendance management including Early Help support and parent support sessions. For more information please see our attendance page.
  • Extracurricular activities, including sports, outdoor activities, arts, culture and trips

For a more detailed overview please see our Pupil Premium Strategy and Pupil Premium impact statement below.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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