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 and their peers by ensuring that funding to tackle disadvantage reaches the pupils who need it most.

Pupil premium funding is allocated to children who are registered for free school meals or who have received free school meals in the past six years. It also includes children who have been looked after in care continuously for the past six months and adopted children. It is for schools to decide how the pupil premium is spent, since they are best placed to assess what additional provision should be made for the individual pupils within their responsibility. The funding is to be allocated to those entitled at the school's discretion, children do not have individual budgets.

Schools are free to spend the pupil premium as they see fit to support all children who are entitled to the funding. For this reason, children do to not have individual allowances or budgets, the group is considered as a whole. However, the school will be held accountable for how they have used the additional funding to support pupils from low-income families.

At St. Augustine’s, our funding is used to help the children to reach their full potential, and to support them in their emotional well-being.

Parents are urged to register for free school meals even if you do not intend to make use of the service. We still receive the funding and it will be used to target support for all children registered.

September 2018 to July 2019

Number of pupils on roll	203
Total number of pupils eligible for Pupil Premium Grant	9
Number of Pupil Premium Grant children	7
Number of Pupil Premium Plus children	2
Total amount of Pupil Premium Grant funding including Pupil Premium Plus	£13,840

The main barriers to educational achievement faced by eligible pupils at the school could be social, mental, emotional or physical learning difficulties, which are addressed through a range of interventions and strategies outlined in the table below. The impact of these are monitored through: pupil progress meetings, pupil, parent and staff questionnaires, Boxall profiles and SDQ (Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaires).

Please see the table below for a list of interventions that are currently in place for 2018/2019:

Intervention	Rationale	Evaluation	Cost
Staff Training	Training to improve staff awareness of complex emotion needs which affect learning	The effective use of: emotion coaching, nurture based training, circle of adults, and support of children with sensory needs has been deployed by school staff	£750
Pastoral support	To support children’s emotional difficulties in school to ensure positive attitudes to learning 1 day TA2 1 day HLTA	A comprehensive package of pupil programmes which include: emotional freedom techniques, CBT, LEGO therapy and time to talk	£5220
Nurture style activities	A range of sessions which allow children to engage in reflective activities, nurture sessions and small groups which build self-esteem and confidence. E.g therapy reading dog To support children who find social interactions difficult, which then impacts on their learning 0.5 days TA2	Children moving towards the norm on Boxall profiles, positive parental feedback, pupil progress positively impacted	£1980
Target academic provision	Focused and time limited interventions for basic skills and specific gaps in children’s knowledge. E.g. pre teaching and phonics support 1 day TA2 1 day HLTA	Pupil progress has been positively impacted	£5220
PE intervention	Focused and time limited interventions for physical needs. E.g. sensory breaks, part of a nurture package, enrichment activities and the development of gross motor skills	Children moving towards the norm on Boxall profiles, positive parental feedback, pupil progress positively impacted	£600
Emotional well-being	Music lessons After school sports School trips Theatre visit Additional swimming sessions	Opportunity not inhibited by deprivation
			Total £14470

September 2017 to July 2018

Number of pupils on roll	204
Total number of pupils eligible for PPG	11
Number of PPG children	7
Number of PP Plus children	4
Total amount of PPG funding including PP Plus	£16,840

Intervention	Cost	Allocation	Impact
Reading support: 1:1 reading interventions; small group reading for meaning; inference and deduction sessions. (7 children)	£1077	Teaching Assistants HLTA	4 children made good progress in reading over the year. 3 children made some progress.
Small-group Maths provision and 1:1 support (5 children)	£2432	Pre-teaching; increasing understanding in specific areas (1:1 and small groups); individual 1:1 Maths support before school; small group after school. Teaching Assistants HLTA Teacher	Excellent progress for 1 child, with interventions enabling the remainder to make good progress.
Phonics support (2 children)	£1431	Teachers HLTA	Improved decoding skills. Some good progress through the reading scheme during the year.
Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (1 child)	£236	Teaching Assistant, 1:1 support	Intervention will need to continue to meet demands of next year’s curriculum.
Handwriting (3 children)	£224	Teaching Assistant, small group and 1:1 support	Writing more legible and children more confident in using cursive script. More consistent use of correct letter formation and joins.
Speech and language (1 child)	£184	HLTA 1:1 sessions	More specialist support needed.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (2 children)	£1070	HLTA	Anxiety levels still need to be reduced. Children now have significant adult to confide in.
Emotional and social needs: small group and individual support (2 children)	£1440	Lego Therapy (including training and equipment) Reading in relaxed environment with Therapy Dog	Improved social skills and more confidence in reading with an adult.
Nurture (3 children)	£7541	Teaching Assistants: 1:1 support and small group support.	Emotional needs supported.
Swimming (11 children)	£160	Half-termly swimming lessons	Improved confidence, stroke skills and proficiency in water.
Emotional wellbeing (11 children)	£2180	Music lessons After school sports School trips Theatre visit	Opportunity not inhibited by deprivation.
TOTAL costs	£17975

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