Additional Grants:

Pupil Premium:

The Pupil Premium is additional funding given to schools so that they can support particular groups of pupils who are known to be at risk of underachievement and close the attainment gap between them and their peers. The Pupil Premium is allocated to schools for pupils, in Years R to 11, who are known to be eligible for free school meals (FSM) or who have been eligible for FSM in the past six years (Ever 6). Pupil Premium is also allocated for children who have been looked after by the local authority.

More information about the Pupil Premium is available on the Department for Education website.

How we use the pupil premium

Our allocation now comes from the ESFA. 

• Delivering additional wellbeing support to pupils who have additional social and emotional needs
• Arranging specific activities to support social integration and emotional wellbeing during the school day and at times during the evenings
• Providing additional literacy support
• Providing dedicated staff to work in a “relay capacity” with interpreters to ensure young people can access external activities
• Ensuring our PP children can access a range of enjoyable and enriching activities
• Providing additional staffing to ensure young people can access local and/or Deaf specialist mental/emotional health services with appropriate levels of communication support 
• Providing Sign therapy to support the development of communication through sign
• Supporting the provision of physiotherapy for pupils with physical difficulties
• The delivery of bespoke occupational therapy programmes for learners as appropriate and clinically indicated
• The provision of bespoke sensory integration programmes for learners with SI difficulties
• The provision of play therapy 

These strategies and interventions are implemented to support the learners to improve and sustain levels of engagement with learning, communication, curriculum access personal achievement and attainment. The strategies were generated through analysis of assessment data and the identification of barriers to learning determined through annual reviews and pupil progress meetings. Provision is reviewed regularly via scheduled meetings of our Pupil Support team of therapeutic staff.

We anticipate that as a consequence of these strategies and interventions, pupils for whom the Pupil Premium applies will make at least planned progress commensurate with their abilities.

How we measure effectiveness

The effectiveness of the interventions funded through the Pupil Premium are considered by monitoring the progress of our learners through their:

• subject reports
• therapies
• independence trackers
• improvements in communication skills
• engagement with learning
• improved emotional resilience.