Key Documents
Pupil Premium
The government introduced the Pupil Premium Grant in April 2011. This grant, which is additional to main school funding, is given to schools by the government as a way to address the current underlying inequalities between children eligible for free school meals (FSM) and their peers. Schools can decide how the Pupil Premium is spent since they are best placed to assess what additional provision should be made for the individual pupils within their responsibility.
At Warton, our Pupil Premium spending is approved by the Head Teacher and the Local Academy Board, who then monitor its impact to ensure that it is spent effectively.
Mrs Sage is the pupil premium champion for the school and is our designated teacher. Mrs Sage works with the SLT, governors, staff, children and parents to ensure that our children receive the best from Warton.
Context
20% of the school are entitled to pupil premium funding
18% are currently eligible for Free School Meals
PP progress and attainment is the responsibility of the whole team. The SLT, class teachers and teaching assistants all work hard to meet the needs of the whole child as well as accelerate progress and target gaps.
Pupil Premium Strategy
Every year we will publish a strategy which outlines the impact of the money spent in the previous year as well as our plans for the year ahead. Please click on the link below to access this years strategy document.
Barriers to Learning
We believe that the needs of every pupil differ and this is equally true of Pupil Premium children. However, when we look at an individual child, the following barriers will be considered and if it is felt that they are a barrier for an individual, we look for strategies to overcome or diminish the barrier.
Barriers to learning may include:
- – lower attendance and increased number of broken weeks
- – lack of funding to access clubs, trips and residential camps
- – lack of parental engagement and support for home learning
- – poor communication and language skills
- – low attainment or progress within reading, writing and maths
- – low self esteem or ‘feeling different’
- – ensuring pupils have regular meals and a balanced diet
- – need for motivation and lack of aspiration
Measuring the Impact
To ensure that the funding is effectively used, we monitor and review the impact of the strategies on a regular basis. The Pupil Premium spending and impact report breaks this down further for each academic year. We aim that every measure includes pupil, staff or parent voice.
Some of the methods that we use to measure the impact include:
- termly pupil progress meetings with every teacher to discuss the progress and barriers of every child
- staff training opportunities as a whole staff and for SLT
- analysing data for progress and attainment
- speaking with pupils about their learning
- meeting with parents to look at how the support has helped their child
- monitoring attendance and broken weeks
- TA intervention analysis at the end of each term
Sports Premium
At Warton we put a real emphasis on sport and PE and have enjoyed significant successes with our pupils across a range of team games. Our PE Subject Leader, Mrs Sage, works really hard to ensure that the PE curriculum, teaching input and provision of clubs and competitive games is consistently of a high standard and available for everyone. Through PE and sport, we aim for our vision of being Courageous, Strong and Loving to be enhanced by the challenge, perseverance and engagement they experience. We hope that our lessons and wider curriculum opportunities within PE and sport will lead to improved concentration, positive attitudes and better overall health; resulting in and raising of our standards in PE and other curriculum areas. At Warton, we believe that every child deserves the right to feel confident and supported in their PE lessons and we work hard to ensure they are an inclusive, empowering learning environment where all achievements are actively celebrated.
We really welcomed the government’s announcement in June 2013 to provide every primary school with additional funding to improve the quality of PE and sport provision. We are committed to using this funding to develop high quality PE lessons and greater opportunities in sports and competitions for all children.
Schools must spend the funding to improve the quality of the PE and sport activities they offer their pupils, but they are free to choose the best way of using the money.
For example, we may use the funding to:
- hire specialist PE teachers
- hire qualified sports coaches to work with teachers
- provide existing staff with teaching resources to help them teach PE and sport
- support and involve the least active children by running or extending school sports clubs
- run sport competitions or increase pupils’ participation inter-house games
- run sports activities with other schools