Targeted academic support
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Area of spending
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Reason for allocation
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Allocation
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Action
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Impact/Evaluation
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Inclusion and enrichment#
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To improve outcomes for targeted children in maths and or English.
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£2,500
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To give children targeted support in small groups in addition to work covered in class or as pre teaching.
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Following on from assessments at the end of the autumn term and pupil progress meetings, pupils were identified as requiring intervention by class teachers/subject coordinators.
Afternoon interventions were set up in the spring term for maths, writing, reading and spelling. Members of staff were trained up to run set interventions and spent time assessing pupils and grouping them according the level they were working at.
Maths interventions followed the ‘Numberstacks’ programme.
English interventions followed the ‘Big Write’ programme and Cracking Comprehension programme for reading.
Unfortunately due to school closure because of Covid 19 these interventions only ran for a couple of weeks.
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The low attainment on entry in EYFS and the continued issues moving into Y1 as per the school review of PP funded work last year. With a carry forward of pupil premium from last year from PP we are able to offer this support to reducing the costs of trips for all
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£6000
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Subsidise Educational trips and experiences in R & KS1
Provide opportunities through school trips for children to develop language skills and have experience to base their comprehension and writing skills on as well as broadening their wider curriculum knowledge.
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A range of school trips have taken place this year which have given children the opportunity to attend school trips with their peers that they may not have been able to do without the financial subsidy.
Through the educational visits the children’s learning has been enhanced and developed the children’s awareness of cultural capital. Some of the trips that pupil premium funding has subsidised are trips to:
- Explore Gloucester
- Everyman Theatre
- Westonbirt Arboretum
- Christmas concert Barnwood Park
- Shakespear Festival
- Drama workshops within school
- Ten Pin Bowling
- Skills Builder – Bristol
Sadly, due to the current pandemic the Year 6 residential was unable to take place this year.
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To improve confidence, self-esteem and resilience and therefore the children will rise to the challenge of learning and taking responsibility for personal development.
To broaden their experience to help them have a wider context for their learning.
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£12000
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Resilience self-esteem and confidence are a barrier to children’s achievement, the residential trips in particular are aimed at challenging children and improving these qualities whilst the other trips provide opportunities for children to develop language skills and have experience to base their comprehension and writing skills on as well as broadening their wider curriculum knowledge.
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To give disadvantaged children the opportunity to learn a musical instrument
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£1000
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To fund music lessons for pupils that show a desire and commitment to learning a musical instrument.
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The FSM pupils all received a bursaries from Gloucestershire Music up to 31st March 20, so pupil premium funding wasn’t required to subsidise
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Wider Strategies
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Area of spending
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Reason for allocation
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Action
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Impact/Evaluation
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Parental Engagement
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To support children and families thereby reducing barriers to learning.
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£500
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Offer regular coffee mornings and target hard to reach families to offer support before families reach crisis point.
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Regular coffee mornings were offered throughout the autumn and spring term. External professionals from Adult Education attended some of the sessions. Unfortunately due to Covid 19 this could not continue during the summer term.
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£70,895
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Inclusion Team to maintain strong links with vulnerable families and support them as the need arises
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Inclusion Lead, Parent Support Advisor and SENCo have worked hard during the academic year to support vulnerable families.
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Support families to develop and build on their own strengths as well as identified areas they require support in. In doing so this will help to provide greater stability for children in the family home.
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£1000
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Link disadvantaged families with external professionals to provide training on areas such as parenting, cooking on a budget, behaviour, bedtime routines, sleep support
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Unfortunately, planned training in the summer term for disadvantaged families had to be postponed due to Covid 19. This will be rescheduled for the autumn term and will be linked to needs of families following the Covid 19 pandemic.
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To raise aspirations of parents for their own development as well as the children’s future development. In doing so parents will be better equipped to support children through their education.
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£1000
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Provide links with Adult education and support parents in improving their own English and mathematical skills and gaining qualifications in these areas.
Provide training from external agencies on how parents can support children with English and mathematics homework
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Wellbeing
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Providing the opportunity for children who are experiencing emotional difficulties to use play to communicate and help prevent or resolve psychosocial challenges. To help them towards better social integration, growth and development.
Reduce disruption to learning, reduce behaviour incidents
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£5000
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Provide weekly Play Therapy & Applied Therapy sessions based on level of need – progress to be closely monitored by Inclusion Lead – baseline and end of course of therapy evaluations to measure impact
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An external play therapist has worked with a total of 5 children this academic year.
These are children who have complex SEMH issues and require trained, expert help in accessing and working through emotions. The progress of these children is discussed every 6 weeks with the Inclusion Lead and Parent Advisor.
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To provide nurturing after school without taking lesson time
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£2000
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Continue to run after school nurture club - Linden Links and offer funded placements to vulnerable families when need arises
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We have offered funded places on a more ad-hoc basis to vulnerable families and children as the need has arisen during this academic year.
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To support children that have poor attendance or are regularly late for school and improve their overall attendance.
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£2000
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To fund places in breakfast club for targeted children with exceptionally low attendance.
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We have offered funded places on a more ad-hoc basis to vulnerable families and children as the need has arisen during this academic year.
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Raise self-esteem, promoting confidence and increased motivation
Provide children with the skills to identify their mood and know what to do to change their mood if feeling low.
Reduce the number of negative behaviour incidents
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£6000
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Staff Development in supporting children with additional needs
Update and increase staff’s knowledge of behaviour management / nurture / mental health & well being
Launch of new Positive Playtime initiative. Well-being leaders –Yr 6 pupils to receive refresher training
Research the best approach to growth mindset, train staff and embed this approach throughout the school. To implement a growth mindset philosophy into the curriculum
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The new positive playtime initiative is up and running. New playground resources have been purchased including playground markings, signage to specify focus areas in the playground, a reading shed to name a few. Children have been trained up as well-being leaders and have been supporting younger children in the new areas of provision outside during playtime/lunchtimes. Following on from this success Year 6 children will be trained up to do this in the autumn term.
Due to lockdown training staff around growth mind-set has been postponed until next academic year.
Staff have been trained on emotion coaching but this is still in its infancy due to lockdown. Refresher training will be required in the autumn term and more work with the children needs to be done after the long period of partial school closure.
All staff have also received training based on the school’s new positive behaviour management policy.
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