Lego Day 2025

What is the pupil premium?

 

The pupil premium is a government scheme that was introduced in 2011 to improve the education of underprivileged children. In contrast to the rest of their classmates, many children who are eligible for pupil premium have to face extra challenges daily. These challenges can include attendance issues, lack of confidence and difficulty communicating with others. The scheme aims to grant schools extra funding so that they’re able to provide additional support for children who are faced with these types of challenges. Its objective is to help schools unlock the learning potential of their pupils and provide them with a better education. It also aspires to narrow the gap in educational development between children of underprivileged backgrounds and their peers.

 

Who qualifies for the pupil premium?

 

Children can be eligible for the pupil premium for a variety of reasons. These include their family circumstances, such as their income or occupations, and whether or not they’re in care. If a child is eligible, a school will receive the necessary amount of funding for each child per school year. How many pupils at Baskerville School receive Pupil Premium and much does Baskerville School receive each year? Although, the number of children entitled for Pupil Premium varies through the year as children enter the school – in September we have 63 pupils entitled to Pupil Premium. Therefore we have an allocation of £62,2000

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How we intend to use our Pupil Premium funding

 

We intend that all pupils, irrespective of their background or the challenges they face, make good progress and achieve high attainment across all subject areas. The focus of our pupil premium strategy is to support disadvantaged pupils to achieve that goal, including progress for those who are already making good progress at school We will consider the challenges faced by vulnerable pupils, such as those who have a social worker and young carers. The activity we have outlined in this statement is also intended to support their needs, regardless of whether they are disadvantaged or not. High-quality teaching is at the heart of our approach, with a focus on areas in which disadvantaged pupils require the most support. This is proven to have the greatest impact on closing the disadvantaged attainment gap and at the same time will benefit the non-disadvantaged pupils in our school. Implicit in the intended outcomes detailed below, is the intention that non-disadvantaged pupils’ attainment will be sustained and improved alongside progress for their disadvantaged peers. Our strategy is also integral to wider school plans for education recovery following the COVID-19 pandemic, notably in its targeted support through the National Tutoring Programme for pupils whose education has been worst affected, including non-disadvantaged pupils. Our approach will be responsive to common challenges and individual needs, rooted in robust diagnostic assessment, not assumptions about the impact of disadvantage. The approaches we have adopted complement each other to help pupils excel. To ensure they are effective we will:

• ensure disadvantaged pupils are challenged in the work that they’re set

• act early to intervene at the point the need is identified

• adopt a whole school approach in which all staff take responsibility for disadvantaged pupils’ outcomes and raise expectations of what they can achieve

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Classroom-Based Funded Activities

 

In recognition of the fact that each class within the school contain at least two pupils who are entitled to pupil premium, the school this year has changed its approach to the use of pupil premium funding. This year’s approach targets the use of pupil premium at the classroom level to ensure that pupils benefit directly from the funding. Each class teacher and team is responsible for the use of the funding in line with the national criteria for the appropriate use of pupil premium funding. The allocation of funding per class is £5,000 from September 2024 to September 2025. Each class team evaluates what is the most effective use of the funding to make a maximum impact on the progress of learning and well-being.

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Cost; 21*5000=£10500 2)

 

Baskerville Breakfast Club

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For whatever reasons many of our pupils do not have a substantial breakfast before arriving at school- therefore many arrive at school hungry or may become hungry before lunchtime. We are therefore using our Pupil Premium funding to subsidise our new breakfast club, which ensures that each of our pupils have a substantial breakfast. A direct correlation between our students having a good breakfast and their ability to learn is very evident. Therefore, we believe that our pupil’s progress is enhanced by the addition of breakfast club. Cost; £1000 3) Read- Write Inc. Pupil premium funding will be used in 2024 for the training of some 48-classroom staff in the delivery of the school’s phonics programme, Read-Write. This will ensure that a large proportion of our staff – both teaching and non- teaching staff have the basic training in how to deliver our phonics programme. Read-Write is a phonics reading scheme that we use at Baskerville school. It teaches pupils the sounds in English, the letters that represent them and how to form letters when reading.

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Cost; £3600)

 

Phonics for SEN Programme

 

Phonics for SEN is a complete, systematic, synthetic, linguistic phonics programme published in seven books. Phonics for SEN enables pupils with a range of special educational needs to find reading and spelling success and is suitable for those with specific learning difficulties, autism, moderate and severe learning difficulties, developmental language disorder, communication needs and complex needs, including pre-and nonverbal pupils and those with a significant physical disability. Working through the programme, the pupil: • learns about and understands the concepts that underpin how the written English language is constructed, • learns, practices and masters the skills they need to work with sounds and letters, and • develops the knowledge they need to learn, build up and retain to be able to read and spell well. • We intend to introduce the programme in the Autumn term of 2024 to extend our phonics programme to learners at the very earliest stages of phonic development

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Cost £2950

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