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Pupil Premium Grant Spending 
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We can claim the funding for your child if your family gets any 1 of the following:

• Income Support
• Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
• Income-related Employment and Support Allowance
• Support under part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
• The guaranteed element of State Pension Credit
• Child Tax Credit (provided you are not also entitled to Working Tax Credit and have an annual gross income of no more than £16,190)
• Working Tax Credit run-on, which is paid for 4 weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit
• Universal Credit.

We can also claim the funding for your child if:

• They have been looked after for 1 day or more
• They have been adopted from care
• They have left care under a special guardianship order or residence order.

If you believe that any of the above apply to your family then please contact Mrs Sohi in the office.

The Pupil Premium is allocated to children:

• Who are currently known to be eligible for Free School Meals (FSM)
• Children who have been looked after continuously for more than six months and the children of members of the armed forces
• This will also include pupils eligible for FSM at any point in the last six years

What is the purpose of Pupil Premium?
The Government believes that the Pupil Premium, which is additional to main school funding, is the best way to address the current underlying inequalities between children eligible for free school meals (FSM) and their wealthier peers by ensuring that funding to tackle disadvantage reaches the pupils who need it most.

In most cases the Pupil Premium is allocated to schools and is clearly identifiable. It is for schools to decide how the Pupil Premium, allocated to schools per FSM pupil, is spent, since they are best placed to assess what additional provision should be made for the individual pupils within their responsibility.
 
Schools are free to spend the Pupil Premium as they see fit. However, they will be held accountable for how they have used the additional funding to support pupils from low-income families. New measures will be included in the performance tables that will capture the achievement of those deprived pupils covered by Pupil Premium.

What is our approach to spending the Pupil Premium?
 At Bantock Primary we believe that all children have an equal opportunity to participate in a broad and balanced curriculum according to their needs, abilities and interests. We aim to remove all barriers to achievement and make every child SHINE. 

SUCCEED HAPPY INSPIRE NURTURE EDUCATE

As such our key priorities for children eligible for Pupil Premium funding are to educate them as individuals, carefully monitoring their progress and planning next steps on their learning journey to: 

• Achieve the highest possible standards in everything they do
• Become happy, inspired, confident and successful learners
• Build trust and respect through strong relationships
• How are we spending the funding?

 
Our belief and research evidence (The Sutton Trust) shows that, the quality of teaching and learning, which we call ‘Quality First Teaching’ is the most important factor in the achievement of all pupils. This remains a consistent focus of the school as it is a focus of our staff training and support from the leadership team.
 
In addition to this, additional targeted intervention and support strategies are deployed to make sure all children fulfil their potential.

The Pupil Premium strategy is reviewed in the Autumn Term.

Pupil Premium Strategy Statement

 This statement details our school’s use of pupil premium for the 2024 to 2025 academic year funding to help improve the attainment of our disadvantaged pupils.

It outlines our pupil premium strategy, how we intend to spend the funding in this academic year and the effect that last year’s spending of pupil premium had within our school.

School overview

Funding overview

Part A: Pupil Premium Strategy Plan

Statement of intent

At Bantock Primary we promise a caring community where everyone can SUCCEED. We provide a HAPPY and exciting environment to INSPIRE children to learn and grow. We will NURTURE their talents and EDUCATE them in everything you do. We aim to encourage every child to SHINE.

Early Intervention

We strongly believe all children can be successful, confident and successful learners and there are no limits to what they can achieve with dedication and a commitment to learning. We know the ‘barriers’ for children, such as socio economic factors, low prior attainment, proficiency in English, social care involvement, stability and mental health and well-being and we are therefore determined to create a climate that does not limit a child’s potential by providing a fun, stimulating learning environment where each new day brings fresh challenges and rewards, and inspiring our children with our creative balanced approach to the curriculum and interventions, providing a firm foundation for lifelong learning. We believe character development, building strong relationships based on trust and respect and highly valued pupil voice by us all will guide us to listen, value and act on what is important to our children.

High Quality Teaching and Learning

We treat all our children as individuals, carefully monitoring their progress and planning next steps on their learning journey to achieve the highest possible standards in everything they do so that no child is left behind.

We take an evidence-informed approach that informs teachers and leaders by combining research (Education Endowment Foundation), professional expertise and the school context to make decisions.

Challenges

This details the key challenges to achievement that we have identified among our disadvantaged pupils.

Intended outcomes

This explains the outcomes we are aiming for by the end of our current strategy plan, and how we will measure whether they have been achieved.

Activity in this academic year

This details how we intend to spend our pupil premium (and recovery premium funding) this academic year to address the challenges listed above.

Teaching (for example, CPD, recruitment and retention)

Budgeted cost: £204,761

Targeted academic support (for example, tutoring, one-to-one support structured interventions)

Budgeted cost: £140,400

Wider strategies (for example, related to attendance, behaviour, wellbeing)

Budgeted cost: £85,377

Total budgeted cost: £430,539

Part B: Review of outcomes in the previous academic year

Pupil premium strategy outcomes

This details the impact that our pupil premium activity had on pupils in the 2023 to 2024 academic year.

Raise Achievement Success Criteria – Pupil Premium children’s attainment by the end of KS2 is broadly in line with National Averages in Reading, Writing and Maths.

(Pupil premium children at Bantock can join at different points throughout the year and have different levels of prior schooling, therefore some will have different starting points)

• At the end of KS2 Disadvantaged children attaining at least Expected Standard in Reading was 71% (National 74%), Writing 71% (National 72%), Maths 74% (National 73%), Combined R, W & M 63%

(National 61%)

Attributes Success Criteria – Children with mental health, social and emotional barriers notice how they are feeling and continue to build respectful relationships and are responsible for their choices.

Targeted work from within school as well as in partnership with external partners has provided intensive social emotional support for vulnerable disadvantaged pupils and has resulted in an increased stability in pupil’s mental health and sustained emotional well-being so that these vulnerable pupils were able to continue to access full time mainstream education.

During 2023 – 2024, 100% of pupils who accessed counselling were pupil premium children.

Of the 12 key statements in the Stirling Wellbeing Scale (September 2024) which is used to measure self-esteem and wellbeing, an average of 95% of pupils provided positive a response to each of the statements. Of the six questions relating to ‘positive outlook’, an average of 94% of all pupils provided a positive response to these statements, for example, ‘I think good things will happen in my life’. Of the six questions relating to ‘positive emotional state’, 93% of pupils provided a positive response to these statements, for example, ‘I’ve been in a good mood’.

Bantock Primary School has achieved the Gold Mental Health Award delivered by Carnegie Centre of excellence for Mental Health in Schools.

Access Success Criteria – Children with English as an additional language and/or social and emotional barriers, including new arrivals feel safe, nurtured, confident and calm at school. They continue to develop a sense of belonging.

Further development of the acquisition and application of academic language across the curriculum is demonstrated pupil’s confidence, coherence and a deepened level of proficiency in academic language across the curriculum, especially for new arrivals (45 for 2023 – 2024) and pupils with low proficiency in English (64%). At the end of KS2 for Reading, 67% of EAL pupils achieved the expected standard of which 50% are also Pupil Premium. At the end of KS2 for Writing, 67% of EAL pupils achieved the expected standard of which 50% are also Pupil Premium. At the end of KS2 for Maths, 70% of EAL pupils achieved the expected standard of which 53% are also Pupil Premium.

Aspirations: School support for all stakeholders to sustain and improve attendance, reducing the impact on missed learning

Externally provided programmes