Pupil Premium

Southern Academy Trust is committed to:

• Ensuring every student eligible for the pupil premium benefits directly via this additional funding and is no way disadvantaged when compared to their peers.

We aim to:

• Ensure all students eligible for the pupil premium make better than expected progress
• Ensure there is transparency through our reporting structure, demonstrating how and where this funding has been spent
• Ensure any differences made to the learning and progress of students eligible for the pupil premium are shown within performance data

We receive funding of £935 for every secondary child registered as eligible for FSM at any point in the last 6 years.

We also receive £1,900 for each Looked After Child who has been looked after for 1 day or more, has been adopted from care and those who leave care under: a special guardianship order or resistance order. This applies from Year 7 – Year 11.

Payments are made in quarterly installments to the school. The Education Funding Agency pays the money directly to the Academy. We are accountable for the impact this funding makes to our students and measure this in a following of ways:

• Performance: comparing how our disadvantaged pupils compare with their peers
• We publish details each year on how the Premium is being used and the impact it is having on pupil achievement

The range of provision the Academy leaders may consider making for this group of learners may include;

• Specialist 1:2 English and Maths tuition
• Special transport to help with attending academic clubs/catch up sessions
• 1:1 mentoring support
• Additional holiday time learning sessions
• Academic 1:1 support and reviews
• Literacy, Numeracy, Career and Progress Reflection sessions within school
• Financial support with revision resources and equipment

We publicly report on the following via our school website:

• Our Pupil Premium allocation for the current academic year
• Details of how we intend to spend this allocation
• Details of how we spent our previous academic year’s allocation
• How it made a difference to the attainment of disadvantaged pupils

We internally share information at every academic snapshot, illustrating the performance and progress of this group of students against that of their peers, the National figure and against Dorset County’s figure. There is a clear focus on narrowing the gap between this group and their peers in the school and between our gap and the national gap

The Academy will measure the impact of the Pupil Premium spending by;

• Tracking the progress of the disadvantaged students at every snapshot
• Assessing the success of students at the end of KS 4 relative to their target grades and against threshold measures, such as 5AC, %ACEM, VA Scores, Progress8 and Levels of Progress in English and maths.
• Measuring the trends of attendance and behaviour in disadvantaged students

Pupil Premium Year 7 catch up funding for academic year 2017/18 is £15,393

This money contributes towards a range of literacy initiatives, including screening tests and on-going diagnostic assessment and monitoring, Lexia reading intervention, our Accelerated Reader programme, paired reading scheme, touch-typing support, comprehension boosters, vocabulary groups and targeted longer-term small-group provision.

So far this year, average reading ages in Year 7 as a whole have increased by almost twice the expected rate since September. Our students with English as an Additional Language (EAL) have made nearly three times the expected reading progress the progress of our pupil premium students is twice the expected rate since September. The reading ages of our students with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) have also increased at a greater than expected rate.

We also employ a numeracy co-ordinator who works across key stage 3. This allows for targeted intervention and maths enrichment opportunities.