Pupil Premium

Pupil Premium 2016-2017

You may know that schools have been given additional funding to support children who receive Free School Meals or who have received free school meals in the last three years. Pupils who have a parent/carer who is in the armed forces also receive extra funding.

From September 2012, schools are required to publish how much additional funding they gave received and how it has been spent.

Following the success of the last few years’ funding and building upon comments made in OFSTED 2013, we will be using the funding in a similar way in 2016-2017.

The indicative allocation for our school for 2016-17 is £62,310

Expenditure

1. Additional Staffing:  £29,000

We believe the biggest impact on the success of pupils in receipt of Free School Meals is employing more specialist staff or increasing the hours of currently employed staff.

The Pupil Premium  funded:

Teaching Assistants who will enable other Assistants to work with a number of groups across the school.
One to one extra Mathematics and extra English teaching in Year 11.
Additional Hours of specialist support across the age and ability ranges.
The sustaining of our current staffing levels. This enables all pupils to be taught by specialist staff and it also enables class sizes to remain appropriate to pupils’ ability across the school.

2.  Additional Resources (£29,00)
We have used the  Pupil Premium to support the purchase of the following additional resources targeted at pupils who might be financially disadvantaged:
Subsidised College Courses in Year 10 and 11. These were very successful last year and will be continued this year.
Additional Rewards as part of our new Rewards and Sanctions system.
Subsidies or full payment of school retreats or any other curriculum based trips, transport, uniform and other resources.

3. Contingency( £4,310) – one to one support with identified pupils as and when appropriate

We have retained some funding in a contingency for this year so if your child is receiving Free School Meals and you have some suggestions as to how we could use that funding, please let me know by emailing me on head@allhallows.lancs.sch.uk. Alternatively, you could call me on 01772 746121.

Other relevant information
All Hallows continues to lead a local collaborative project to share and develop effective practice across a group of high schools with quite differing cohorts.
The Headteacher has been appointed and trained as a Pupil Premium Champion, advising other schools on how to make the best use of the available funding.
IMPACT

All Hallows was inspected by OFSTED in June 2013 and was judged to be outstanding in every category. OFSTED commented that, “All groups of students in all subjects make outstanding progress” and “The pupil premium funding is being used appropriately used for their targeted support and monitoring”
Summer GCSE 2016 results were the best in the school’s history:

89% of all pupils attained 5+A*-C grades including English and Mathematics

63% of all pupils achieved the EBacc standard

Progress 8 score is estimated at 0.5

Year 7 Literacy and Numeracy ‘Catch-Up’ Premium 2016

All Hallows Catholic High School had an allocation this year of £9,000 for Literacy and Numeracy ‘Catch-Up’ and intervention work.

The allocation is deployed in a number of ways to target students in Year 7 who need intervention to improve their Literacy and Numeracy skills to enable them to access the secondary curriculum.

At the start of school in September, following assessments, CAT reading tests and a detailed analysis of Key Stage 2 information, students are targeted for a variety of Literacy and Numeracy interventions as follows:

Intervention through Learning Support

• All pupils are tested in reading and spelling in the first term of Year 7. Pupils who have a reading and spelling age under 9.5 are identified and placed on the IDL (Indirect Dyslexic Learning) programme. This can be supported by parents at home.
• Pupils who find reading difficult are given targeted time on the ‘Toe by Toe’ reading scheme.
• Some pupils are withdrawn from MFL and given 3:1 TA support in Literacy and Numeracy.
• Targeted pupils are taught in classes with a pupil teaching ratio of 12:1 and 1:1 where necessary and appropriate.
• Numeracy Passports introduced to Year 7.

Staff Training and Development 

• The appointment of a TA 2 for Literacy and a TA2 for Numeracy, September 2015.  The role of these teaching assistants is to aid the enhancement programme of literacy and numeracy across the school with a particular focus being to support the Year 7 Catch-Up Premium intervention programme.
• Specific Literacy and Numeracy CPD given to all staff to promote literacy and Numeracy across all subjects.
• Literacy and Numeracy withdrawal Groups run by SEN staff for students working below Level 4 in English and Maths
• Homework Help Clubs run at lunchtimes by Learning Support staff for Year 7 students who have difficulty managing their homework at home.
• A ‘Literacy Across the Curriculum’ group was started in January 2015 with representatives from across the curriculum.

Impact on achievement

This table, based on public examination results in the summer of 2015, sums up the impact on these 13 students

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