Pupil Premium Archive – Danesgate Community

Pupil Premium – 2020/21

Secondary FSM, ‘Ever 6’ (any pupil who has been eligible for free school meals at any point in the last 6 years) attracts a premium of £1345 (R to Y6) and £955 per pupil (years 7-11) and children who have previously been in care attract a premium of £2345 per pupil. For children currently in care (CLA) the premium of £2345 per pupil is held centrally by the Local Authority’s Virtual School and allocation is linked to the Personal Education Plans for each pupil.

The Danesgate Community Pupil Premium allocation for 2020-21

At the January census 59% of Danesgate’s primary aged pupils and 39% of Danesgate’s secondary aged pupils were eligible for pupil premium based on the FSM Ever 6 calculation. This led to a pupil premium allocation for deprivation of £101,740. We also anticipate pupil premium for children who are in care or who have previously been in care of £26,967. Total pupil premium anticipated allocation is £129,947.

The Danesgate Community – barriers to learning

All pupils at Danesgate have significant social, emotional and mental health needs. Further a high proportion have additional barriers to learning and some are classed as disadvantaged (68% of cohort) as they have EHCPs, Social Care involvement or significant SEMH needs or SEND. The key barriers linked to deprivation for our pupils are:

Below age related performance when they join the school
Gaps in literacy and numeracy due to breakdown in attendance and engagement in mainstream school
Family support network often struggling to encourage good attendance and engagement and may not have had a good experience of education themselves. There may also be concerns around eating a healthy diet and availability of uniform and personal care items.
Low self esteem with regard to learning and the opportunities they could take advantage of
Poor self regulation and associated social skills sometimes linked to adverse childhood experiences

The Danesgate Community – how do we use PP funding to reduce barriers to learning?

Our whole school investment and approach can be seen in the way we personalise learning and in the way we support families to make sure that no barrier that we can remove is left in place.

What is the impact of our investment?

In school attainment data shows diminishing gap and significant improvement in attainment figures over past 2 years. Please see Outcomes document also available on our school website under the ‘Achievements’ section.

Pupil Premium Toolkit from The Sutton Trust

Source: http://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/toolkit/

The Sutton Trust-EEF Teaching and Learning Toolkit is an accessible summary of educational research which provides guidance for teachers and schools on how to use their resources to improve the attainment of disadvantaged pupils.

Identified barriers (see numbered list above)	Intervention	Danesgate – plans for 20/21	Expenditure	Sutton Trust Research Average impact (months)
3, 4	Feedback to families	Home visits one month into programme. Parent review days	£4000	+8
5	Meta-cognition and self-regulation	Specialist THRIVE teacher with caseload of students weekly	£40000	+8
4	Peer mentoring	Not used this year		+6
1, 2, 4, 5	One to one tuition	Enhancement of tuition for bespoke programmes.	From our core funding	+5
3	Oral language interventions	EFL translation service. Also incorporated into 1-1 tuition provision above.	From our core funding	+5
1, 2	Phonics	KS1 additional TA support Investment in new Ruth Miskin resources	£7500	+4
1,2	Reading Comprehension Strategies	Investment in new reading schemes	£831	+6
1,2	Mastery Learning	Primary Curriculum restructure, incl. White Rose Maths	£1125	+5
1, 4, 5	Small group tuition/ Within Class Attainment Grouping	Support of additional teacher for specialist subjects (Art, Science). Vocational subject offer to small groups. Pupils in new group model by need and stage	£12560 £12440 £12000	+4/+3
4, 5	Behaviour interventions	Our whole approach involves this	From our core funding	+4
3	Digital technology	School wide wifi Investment in Chromebooks Investment in Google Suite	£6000	+4
4, 5	Social and emotional learning	Our whole approach involves this	From our core funding	+4
3	Parental involvement	See home visits above, also half termly review days with a family focus, taxi provided for parental transport if this is a barrier	£2250	+3
1, 2	Reducing class size to 8	See small group comment above	From our core funding	+3
5	Animal therapy	Country Classroom/on site Horse riding Rossmoor Grange Small animal unit on site	£58250	+3
4	Sports participation	Individual swimming, gym sessions, trampoline and climbing lessons subsidised. Transport for additional adults to competitions. EVOLVE Sports Partnership AdAstra	£69715	+2

Average impact (months) is estimated in terms of additional months progress you might expect pupils to make as a result of an approach being used in school, taking average pupil progress over a year is as a benchmark.

Pupil Premium – 2019/20

Secondary FSM, ‘Ever 6’ (any pupil who has been eligible for free school meals at any point in the last 6 years) attracts a premium of £1320 (R to Y6) and £935 per pupil (years 7-11) and children who have previously been in care attract a premium of £2300 per pupil. For children currently in care (CLA) the premium of £2300 per pupil is held centrally by the Local Authority’s Virtual School and allocation is linked to the Personal Education Plans for each pupil.

The Danesgate Community Pupil Premium allocation for 2019/20

At the January census 52.5% of Danesgate’s primary aged pupils and 45.3% of Danesgate’s secondary aged pupils were eligible for pupil premium based on the FSM Ever 6 calculation. This led to a pupil premium allocation for deprivation of £99715. We also anticipate pupil premium for children who are in care or who have previously been in care of £23000. Total pupil premium anticipated allocation is £122715.