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Pupil Premium

What is the Pupil Premium Grant?

The Pupil Premium Grant (PPG) is provided to schools to improve the educational outcomes for disadvantaged pupils.

The school receives funding for the following groups of pupils:

 

Amount of funding for each secondary aged pupil per year

Funding is paid to

Pupils who are eligible for free school meals, or have been eligible in the past 6 years (including eligible children of families with no recourse to public funds)

£1,035

School

Pupils previously looked after by a local authority or other state care

£2,530

School

Children who are looked after by the local authority

£2,530

Local authority

Schools also receive a PPG of £320 for pupils with a parent who is serving in HM Forces, has been registered as a ‘service child’ in the past 6 years or one of their parents has died while serving in the armed forces and the pupil receives a pension under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme or the War Pensions Scheme. This funding is to help with pastoral support.

Funding (£2,530 per pupil) is paid to the Local Authority (LA) for children who are looked after by the LA. The designated virtual school head (VSH) in the LA will manage the PPG for pupils eligible for this funding. The VSH will ensure there are arrangements in place to discuss how the child will benefit from pupil premium funding with the designated teacher or another member of staff in the child’s education setting who best understands their needs.

For more information, please contact Paul McFadden, Senior Deputy Headteacher, Olney campus.

ALL INFORMATION ABOUT PUPILS WILL BE TREATED IN THE STRICTEST CONFIDENCE.

Statement of Intent

Our strategy will, in line with the school’s vision, ensure that our Disadvantaged pupils will leave Ousedale ready to succeed in life. As effective learners, they will acquire the character, experiences, knowledge skills and qualifications that will enable them to thrive, and lead successful, happy lives. The focus of our pupil premium strategy is to support Disadvantaged pupils so that they make good progress and achieve highly across the curriculum, including those who are already high attainers. This will be achieved through our ambitious and broad curriculum comprising of 3 elements – Character, Experiences and Knowledge Skills.

The strategy will be guided by the following key principles:

  • Ambition
  • Knowledge and Skills

         - Key concepts

         - Core Knowledge

         - Powerful knowledge

  • Offering new experiences
  • Developing character
  • Identifying and addressing context specific need
  • Learning is sequential

Our strategy is integral to the wider school developments that will support the continued improvement in attainment of our Disadvantaged pupils whilst sustaining improvements in outcomes of their Non-Disadvantaged peers. High quality teaching is fundamental to supporting the aims of our strategy that will be supported by accurate and timely diagnostic assessment resulting in targeted interventions. Our approach will be responsive to the needs of the cohort so that emerging challenges are identified and acted upon, ensuring all pupils can access our rich and broad curriculum.

The essential point is to ensure that disadvantage does not hinder potential and to monitor, evaluate and intervene. We have taken guidance from the Department of Education 'Using Pupil Premium: Guidance for School Leaders' effective use and accountability' (October 2019), Education Endowment Foundation 'The EEF guide to the pupil premium' (April 2022) and Ofsted pupil premium report (January 2013).

Our three year specific strategic aims can be found in our 'Pupil Premium Strategy Statement' (updated March 2023) by following the link at the bottom of this page.

Challenges

The school has identified the following areas as challenges to achievement for pupils supported by the PPG.

  1.  Attainment and progress at the end of Key Stage 4
  2.  Weaker literacy and numeracy skills
  3.  Social and emotional barriers
  4.  Low self-esteem, aspiration and lack of resilience
  5.  Poor parental engagement 
  6.  Behaviour and Attitude to Learning
  7.  Attendance

Deployment of Pupil Premium Funding

Full details of how the pupil premium Funding is used to improve the attainment, progress and experiences of our pupils can be found in the Pupil Premium Strategy Statement by clicking on the link below. The strategies are in line with the Department for Education’s (DfE) ‘menu of approaches’ to support:

  • Effective identification of pupil needs 
  • Successful implementation of approaches 
  • Effective monitoring and evaluation of approaches 

The menu of approaches is categorised into 3 tiers:

  • Tier 1: High Quality Teaching
  • Tier 2: Targeted Academic Support
  • Tier 3: Wider Strategies

The vast majority of the PPG is spent on the strategic development of quality teaching in the classroom and academic support interventions. In line with the guidance from the DfE and the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), the PPG is not deployed so that it solely benefits eligible pupils. Many of our strategies impact on a wider range of pupils. The school will consider requests to support resources, trips and enrichment activities from families of eligible pupils but does not guarantee that they will be fully or partially approved.

Requests can be made via email: PupilPremium@ousedale.org.uk