Intent

This statement details our school’s use of Pupil Premium funding (and recovery premium for the 2023 to 2024 academic year) to help improve the attainment of our disadvantaged pupils. It outlines our pupil premium strategy, how we intend to spend the funding in this academic year and the effect that last year’s spending of pupil premium had within our school.

The Pupil Premium is additional funding for schools in England to raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils of all abilities. Schools receive this funding to support their eligible pupils and narrow the attainment gap between them and their peers. Children can be eligible for the pupil premium for a variety of reasons. These include their family circumstances, such as their parents’ income or occupations, and whether the child is in care.

Schools have the freedom to spend the premium, which is additional to the underlying school’s budget and recovery premium, in a way that they consider best supports the raising of attainment for the most vulnerable pupils. In order to meet the above requirements, the Governing Body and staff at Little Sutton will ensure that provision is made which secures the teaching and learning opportunities that meet the needs of all its pupils. The Governors and staff also recognise that not all pupils who are socially disadvantaged are registered or qualify for free school meals. They therefore reserve the right to allocate the Pupil Premium funding to support any pupil or groups of pupils the school has legitimately identified as being socially disadvantaged.

*Pupils eligible for the grant are based on the school’s Autumn 2022 data.

**Amount initially received was based on the January census of each academic year (for 2022/2023 this was 25 children; 2021/22 this was 21 children).

Please see below the Coronavirus Catchup Funding Plan. 

Implementation

Our main priorities for the PPG are grounded on research as provided by the DfE and the Educational Endowment Foundation (EEF). Our strategy is focused on a triangulation of teaching priorities, targeted support and other wider strategies, as applicable to our pupils needs. These include:

• Teach an ambitious and broad curriculum in all subjects from the start of the autumn term, ensuring gaps in learning are addressed.
• High quality training in reading, writing and maths to ensure teachers become expert teachers.
• CPD to support expertise of staff in the delivery of phonics, reading and number fluency
• Teaching Assistant support for Reading Groups (Reception; KS1 and Year 3)
• Reading support programme (Lexia)
• Small group and one-one targeted support: Reading and Writing (KS2)
• In school tutoring using the National Tutoring Programme (ring fenced grant for disadvantaged pupils)
• Home learning support (home learning packs; summer learning packs; iPad use)
• Maths tuition/intervention for Key Stage 2
• Subsidised peripatetic music lessons or subsidised curriculum enrichment (extra curricula clubs i.e., art/PE)
• Subsidised residential for Year 6.

Impact

The impact of the above will be measured by a regular review of data, books and class monitoring by the Lead for Pupil Premium, Governor for Pupil Premium and Leadership Team. A half termly report is also presented to Standards and Achievement Group for discussion. This is then reviewed at the Governing Body interim meetings.

This summary statement is updated annually and the next date for renewal is November 2024.

Further details regarding the strategy can be found in the 2023-20234 Pupil Premium Strategy report.