Pupil Premium

The Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) will allocate PPG to schools and local authorities (who must allocate for each FTE pupil on the January school census, at each school they maintain) the following amounts:

• £1,480 per pupil for each Ever 6 FSM FTE pupil aged 4 and over in year groups reception to year 6, except where the pupil is allocated the LAC or post-LAC premium
• £1,050 per pupil for each Ever 6 FSM FTE in year groups 7 to 11, except where the pupil is allocated the LAC or post-LAC Premium
• £2,570 for each reception to year 11 pupil identified in the January school census or the alternative provision census as having left local authority care as a result of:
  • adoption
  • a special guardianship order
  • a child arrangements order (previously known as a residence order)
  • who has been in local authority care for 1 day or more
• £340 for each pupil aged 4 and over in year groups reception to year 11 who is either Ever 6 service child FTE or in receipt of pensions under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme (AFCS) and the War Pensions Scheme (WPS)

We spend this allocation on a variety of initiatives in order support with the closing of the gap between our Disadvantaged and other Pupils.

The Sutton Trust toolkit has formed the basis of much expert analysis in this subject field and assesses over 20 different approaches to improving learning in schools, estimating the extra progress over the course of a school year that an ‘average’ student might expect if this strategy was adopted. It identifies the strength of the existing research evidence and makes an estimate of the costs of adopting the approaches.

The top approaches set out by the toolkit are listed below as well as an explanation of how we at St George’s Church of England Foundation School have used the PPG to facilitate these interventions.

Approach	What we do
Student Feedback	Feedback Focus Opportunities Termly Academic Overviews
Peer Tutoring	Peer Ambassadors that take pupils for reading in the mornings and during selected lessons.
Early Years Intervention	Student progress measured in every year compared to desired outcomes in year 11.
One to One	Specific intervention allocated to pupils based on Academic Progress linked to target grades. This also includes Saturday School.
Homework	After school Homework Club.
ICT	All Pupil Premium Pupils have access to interactive whiteboards, PC’s, laptops and IPad’s to support learning within lessons
Phonics Teaching	Specific pupils selected and support by small group intervention with specialist teaching.
Metacognition and Self- Regulation	Lesson time is used for pupils to reflect on their learning sequence. They are given time to reflect on their own strengths and weaknesses and challenged by teachers to be aware of who to improve.
Reading comprehension strategies	Pupils are supported by the St George’s Literacy Pathways, with different Waves of support offered for pupils. Emphasis on reading culture and reading within the curriculum. Importance of subject specific literacy.

 

Tutoring 2023-2024

 

At St George’s Church of England Foundation School, we use tutoring to support pupils academic progress. Some of this tutoring is available to use through the use of government funding:

National Tutoring Programme

The National Tutoring Programme (NTP) provides primary and secondary schools with funding to spend on targeted academic support. St George’s School used the NTP funding to subsidise tuition delivered through school- led tutoring:

• school-led tutoring: members of a school’s own staff, either already employed or specifically engaged for this purpose, such as supply teachers and support staff, or retired teachers.

Targets support was provided to pupils from Year 1 to Year 11. Tutoring was delivered in group sizes from 1:1 up to a maximum of 1:6, to maintain high-quality and impactful tuition.

Most tutoring sessions took place after school hours, with a small number of sessions taking place during specific timetabled classes. Some pupils benefited from this tutoring by being removed from lessons and working in small groups.

Funding received covered 50% of the total cost of the tuition sessions, other in school funding lines were used to fund the total cost of the tuition programme. Other funding line included the use of Pupil Premium funding.

In the academic year 2023-24 a total of 358 pupils received support, using the NTP. This equated to a total of 3223 hours of additional support for these pupils.

 

16 to 19 Tuition Funding

The 16-19 Tuition Fund provides funding for Sixth Form pupils to help deliver support to pupils aged between 16 and 19 to help mitigate the disruption of learning due to COVID-19. This fund is targeted at pupils in most need, offering small group tuition to recover lost learning. St George’s School used the funding to subsidise tuition delivered through school-led tutoring.

 

The support was targeted at pupils:

• resitting their English and/or Maths GCSEs
• needing to resit their vocational Level 3 BTEC exams
• requiring some assistance with the study skills needed for Level 3 BTECs

The tutoring was delivered in small group sizes ranging from 1:1 to 1:6 and was provided by subject specialists, with 100% of the funding used for staffing costs. These sessions took part during Sixth Form study periods or after school.

Other Tutoring

St George’s Church of England Foundation School has a large number of Looked After Pupils. Sometimes, through discussions at PEP meetings, tutors are assigned to work with pupils one to one. These sessions take place in dedicated timetabled sessions as well as after school.

The sessions are arranged, through discussion with all professionals involved with the pupil, to support with specific academic needs.