Pupil Premium

Government information about Pupil Premium:
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/pupil-premium-effective-use-and-accountability

Pupil Premium Grant 2021/2022

What is Pupil Premium Grant (PPG)
PPG is a Government Grant payable to schools for students from disadvantaged families. It is linked to free school meals (any pupil entitled to free school meals, also get PPG) and looked after children (LAC).

The Grant is included within the School budget for the year and is ring-fenced, to ensure that it is spent on the pupils entitled to the grant.

How much does the EHS receive
1. The grant for 2021/2022 £30,870.00
2. Grant Value per qualifying pupil £935 (£1800 for Looked after Children )
3. Number of qualifying pupil’s 28 (56%)

What is the PPG spent on

Attendance: £21833.00 has been used in the year to part-fund the Attendance Officer post and to part-fund the Intervention’s Strategies around increasing attendance at the school. The funding has also been used for the provision of the services of an Education Welfare Officer from One Education, who our Attendance Officer has regular meetings with and has the access to a daily helpline for any queries.

Education Psychologist: The remaining amounts of £9037.00 have been spent on the provision of an Educational Psychologist through the Local Authority’s (Service Level Agreement). This allows a continuity of specialist advice throughout the school year.

How is it monitored in the School
Julie Larkin, School Business Manager is responsible for monitoring and reporting.

Where from a Governance point of view is it reported
The Governors of the school are responsible for ensuring that the PPG is spent appropriately. A link Governor is in place; Helen Whittingham.

An update on the PPG is included within the Head Teachers report which is presented to each Governing Board.

The Curriculum Committee (CC) received a detailed breakdown of the pupils eligible for the grant and where the money has been allocated. As a large proportion of the PPG is allocated to improving attendance, the CC also receive Attendance Reports.

The Resources Committee will get a report each term via the update from the Link Governor.

How often does the Link Governor review
The previous review was undertaken in September 2023

Closing comments from Link Governor
A robust system is in place for monitoring and allocating the resources received via PPG. There are 3 clear interventions being funded. The school management are receiving regular feedback on the interventions and the trend so far is improvements in all areas.

At the next review meeting we will be able to look at actual performance to understand the impact more.

Pupil Premium Report 2020/2021

The grant for 2020/21 £38,260

What is the PPG spent on

Attendance: £33k has been used in the year to part-fund the Attendance Officer post and to part-fund the Intervention’s Strategies around increasing attendance at the school. The funding has also been used for the provision of the services of an Education Welfare Officer from One Education, who our Attendance Officer has regular meetings with and has the access to a daily helpline for any queries.

Education Psychologist: The remaining amounts of £ 5k have been spent on the provision of an Educational Psychologist through the Local Authority’s (Service Level Agreement). This allows a continuity of specialist advice throughout the school year.

Egerton at Home: Although we have never closed as a school (during Covid-19 lockdown and restrictions), starting from March 2020, subject teachers from every department organised remote learning work to support students who chose to access their learning from home. These work packs reflected the planned school curriculum and schemes of work and were hand-delivered to students’ homes along with necessary resources such as Maths and Art equipment.

Work is currently underway to demonstrate that the interventions are having the right impact. The last year has been an unprecedented and strange period due to the Covid-19 restrictions and lockdowns. A measurement framework is in place and results will be provided later in the Academic year.

At the review meeting we looked at the impact of the Egerton at Home scheme that had been designed to address Covid-19 restrictions. As part of the Egerton at Home Scheme, each day, students would receive a phone call from a member of staff to check their progress with the work as well as their wellbeing. Additional remote tutorials were set up for students who needed extra 1:1 support with specific aspects of their work packs.

Approximately every one to two weeks, completed work was collected for subject teachers to mark; this marked work was then returned to students so that they could respond to the bespoke feedback. Termly assessments continued to be distributed as part of Egerton at Home and in line with the school’s calendar.

Student engagement with Egerton at Home was much higher at KS3, reflective of our attendance trends. In May 2020, our engagement figure was 80% at KS3 and 33% at KS4. By February 2021, many more students were physically attending school again and the engagement rate for those still receiving Egerton at Home was 56%. For those individual students who continued to not engage with remote learning, additional phone calls were made by members of the Senior Leadership group, and it was encouraged that students started to attend school again, unless they were unable to due to Covid-19, so that they could make progress with their learning.

Where from a Governance point of view is it reported

The Governors of the school are responsible for ensuring that the PPG is spent appropriately. A link Governor is in place; Helen Whittingham.

Pupil Premium Report 2019/2020

The PPG of £30,555 for the year 2019/20 is used in the following three areas as characterised below.

Interventions

This is where the majority of the funding goes at present. £21,115 of an interventions salary is funded by PPG and a further £2000 was spent on baseline assessment tests. All pupils had their reading skills assessed in the first half term. The pupils will be assessed three times a year to see how they have improved. This will take place in October, March and July.

Attendance

This is an area where most of the pupils are having some input from our new attendance officer and the move towards a new Education Welfare provider away from the Local Authority. There has been a greater move towards the policies, documents etc. all supplied with the help EWO provider. There are weekly attendance meetings between Attendance Officer and SLT, staff are made more aware of pupils attendance and any underlying reasons and are encouraged to speak more to the pupils in form time about odd day non – attendance which was causing pupils to slip under the radar.

Ed Psych

Some of our pupils have been assessed in school by the Educational Psychologist. We have in place a Service level Agreement which allows us access to a named member of the team. He meets with staff and the SeNCO to discuss any particular problems and to see if any additional strategies can be put into place.

Use of the Pupil Premium – 2018/19

Statistics

· Number of pupils on roll – 60

· Number of pupils qualifying for Pupil Premium Grant – 36

· Grant value - £600 per qualifying pupil ( £900 for LAC pupils (10))

· Size of grant for 2018/19 - £30,555

Focus for 2018/19

a) Improved attendance

b) Use of Educational Psychologist.

Delivery of PPG for 2018/19

a) Deployment of Attendance Officer to support pupils and families with a history of poor attendance with increased home visits alongside with support from Local Authority EWO for advice.

b) Use of Local Authority SLA for Educational Psychologist assessments to enable pupils need to be more accurately met.