Pupil Premium

Pyrcroft Grange Pupil Premium Funding Report

At Pyrcroft Grange School we have the very highest expectations of, and aspirations for, all our pupils. The Bourne Education Trust and our Governing Body share our belief that every pupil should have equal opportunities to achieve the best possible life chances, and where no child gets left behind.

We share the drive to ensure that every pupil is given every opportunity to fulfil their potential.

Understanding our pupils, their families and barriers to learning is at the centre of our strategy to support disadvantaged pupils.

Pupil Premium funding is allocated based on the number of pupils in reception to Year 11 who fall into the following groups:

· Pupils eligible for free school meals (FSM) or have been recorded as eligible in the past 6 years (FSM Ever 6)

· Previously looked-after children (PLAC): pupils who were looked after by a local authority or other state care immediately before being adopted, or who left local authority or other state care on a special guardianship order or child arrangements order (previously known as a residence order)

· Looked-after children (LAC): those who are in the care of, or provided with accommodation by, an English local authority

· Service Children: pupils with one or more parent serving in the regular armed forces, who have been registered as a service child on a school census since 2016, or who have a parent who has died whilst serving in the armed forces and the pupil receives a pension under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme or the War Pensions Scheme.

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The aim of PPF is to support schools in raising the achievement of the most disadvantaged pupils.

In making provision for socially disadvantaged pupils, we recognise that not all pupils who receive free school meals will be socially disadvantaged. We also recognise that not all pupils who are socially disadvantaged are registered or qualify for free school meals. We 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

As a school, we recognise that it is not the funding itself that will improve achievement and attainment, but how it is used. The Department for Education (DfE) expects us to use PPF appropriately and to be accountable for the decisions we make.

At Pyrcroft Grange, through effective and rigorous planning, monitoring and controls, governors ensure the efficient management of PPF and this leads to the effective deployment of staff and resources to the benefit of all groups of pupils. We have been asked whether PPF should be used exclusively for pupils on FSM and we believe that it is difficult to spend PPF on the improvement of teaching and learning without the benefits impacting on other pupils. Equally, it is morally difficult to exclude a child who is not on FSM from accessing any initiatives if they could clearly benefit from them. However, we are also clear in the way that interventions are targeted to ensure FSM pupils benefit from PPF.

In our latest Ofsted report (December 2016) it was recorded:

“Leaders ensure that the pupil premium is used to provide effective support for targeted pupils in lessons.”

“Disadvantaged pupils excel in this school and attain standards regularly in excess of other pupils nationally.”

Please click on the links below for the summary of PPF expenditure and interventions at Pyrcroft Grange School.