Pupil Premium

Pupil Premium (PP)

Schools are allocated a Pupil Premium Fund of £935 per student for those who have been eligible for Free School Meals at any point during the last six years – these students are deemed ‘disadvantaged’.

All students in receipt of the PP Fund may avail of a range of appropriate interventions to support them in their learning.  The aim is to ensure that they achieve expected progress during their five years in high school.  Staff monitor these levels of progress throughout each year group to measure the impact of the interventions.  The PP budget for 2021-2022 has been set at £341,890.

Measuring the impact of pupil premium interventions

Progress data is collected each term and analysed to track the progress of every student.  Interventions are reviewed each term and students either continue or are moved to more relevant measures to support them.  We recognise that a large majority of our students are not significantly better off or could be considered less deprived than some PP students and we therefore target many students following data analysis on the basis of achievement and tackle low literacy within the context of pupil premium.

Key stage 4 results are analysed to compare the achievements of students in receipt of the pupil premium with the national average for all pupils. 

pupil premium statement

This statement details our school’s use of pupil premium (and recovery premium for the 2021 to 2022 academic year) funding to help improve the attainment of our disadvantaged pupils.

It outlines our pupil premium strategy, how we intend to spend the funding in this academic year and the effect that last year’s spending of pupil premium had within our school.

School overview

Detail

Data

School name

Dormers Wells High school

Number of pupils in school (KS3/4)

1206

Proportion (%) of pupil premium eligible pupils

33.4%

Academic year/years that our current pupil premium strategy plan covers (3 year plans are recommended)

2021-2023

Date this statement was published

December 2021

Date on which it will be reviewed

May 2022

Statement authorised by

Ms R Walsh

Pupil premium lead

Mr D McCarthy

Governor / Trustee lead

Mr C Anderson

Funding overview

Detail

Amount

Pupil premium funding allocation this academic year

£ 341,890

Recovery premium funding allocation this academic year

£52,272

Pupil premium funding carried forward from previous years (enter £0 if not applicable)

£N/A

Total budget for this academic year

 

£394,162

Part A: Pupil premium strategy plan

Statement of intent

Dormers Wells high school works with a number of providers to create programmes that engage Pupil Premium students of all abilities, ethnicities and gender. Our intent is to narrow the attainment gap between PP and non PP students and make best use of the funding allocation to provide opportunities to enrich students’ educational and holistic experiences.

Dormers Wells high school has used the DFE guidance and Education Endowment fund Research in particular to support our approaches, please see the links below

The programmes are designed to meet a tiered approach across three main strands:

  • *Teaching
  • *Targeted academic support
  • *Wider strategies

Our focus has been to use the funding to continue to develop and measure the impact of the following interventions and programmes in particular reference to Pupil Premium students:

  • Pupil Progress
  • Provision for HAP PP students
  • Digital technology
  • Breakfast club
  • Providing high quality CPD
  • Student support services
  • Whole school literacy
  • Targeted small group revision session
  • Other educational opportunities
  •  Finance support.

Challenges

This details the key challenges to achievement that we have identified among our disadvantaged pupils.

Challenge number

Detail of challenge

1

Dormers Wells high school is located in an area that experiences high levels of multiple deprivation.

2

Large parts of the community in which Dormers Wells high school is part of uses English as a second language leading to low levels of academic literacy among students and parents.

3

Due to the levels of financial deprivation that our students experience, individual access to technology for the purpose of education is limited and barrier to online and home learning.

4

Due to the levels of financial deprivation that our students experience, individual access to sporting, leisure and cultural/enrichment opportunities are limited and barrier to learning. 

 

Intended outcomes

This explains the outcomes we are aiming for by the end of our current strategy plan, and how we will measure whether they have been achieved.

Intended outcome

Success criteria

Made to Measure Mentoring: Extension for PP pupils.

 

Continue to develop initiatives that help to support pupil progress, either individually or in small groups, and to recognise good performance and attitude.  The aim is to raise achievement and attainment standards of PP pupils who have high levels of attainment on entry.  

Sustain a minimum of 33% of PP students accessing the ‘Made to Measure Mentoring’ will be PP.  

85% of PP will achieve a 1st or 2:1 in their Brilliant club dissertation

Student voice indicates HAP PP students are more positive and aware of their opportunities moving forward after completing the Future Frontier course.

Teacher round robins indicate students’ improvement in listening, speaking in class, critical thinking skills and constructing an argument have improved from a base line survey after completing the Debatemate course.

GCSE Pod

Continue to further the use of GCSEPod by all relevant curriculum areas. Monitor the use by students across the curriculum and support curriculum areas in their use of GCSEPod. 

 

PP students will have downloaded an average of 35% of the total downloaded or streamed across years 9,10 and 11

 

PP student voice indicates that GCSEPOD clips and note taking is highly regarded as a revision technique

To embed practice such as modelling, template use, pre-learning and revision in the following subjects: PE, Drama and Technology to narrow the achievement gap between PP and Non PP students.  

Breakfast Club

Students will be provided with a free breakfast from Monday to Friday.  The Breakfast Club will be an opportunity for us to raise literacy, social and communications skills through targeted appropriate play. This will also include free breakfast provision during the exam period. 

Total number of attendances to the breakfast club between January and April will exceed 500. 

Of the total breakfast club attendees, a minimum of 50% will be PP.  

The quality of the provision will meet the academic needs of the students

Improving the quality of Learning and Teaching 

Employment of one Lead Practitioner, English and maths teachers to build capacity within the core subjects as we further develop: 

Pupil premium students will achieve FFT 5- 55% 5-9 in Eng/Maths (PP 49% Non PP 58%)

To ensure the predicted gap between PP and Non PP students remains at a difference of 0.01 between the cohorts or below.   

Evidence in LM minutes that the PP/Non PP gap is being monitored and student targeting actively reduces the PP/Non PP gap.

Pixl Membership

Membership to Pixl to enable core subject leaders and Assistant Head teachers in charge of Raising Standards to attend meetings and implement whole school systems to raise achievement.  

Where training and resources through Pixl are available, CLs will have accessed these through CPD or use of the Pixl website. 

Departments have embedded PIXL resources into their SOW and are using them specifically to target underachieving PP students. Evidenced in SOW, assessments, student voice and LM minutes. 

Student Support Services

Additional staff deployed to address issues of poor attendance; a particular issue with many students who are supported by the PP fund.  Intervention activities targeting students with poor organisational skills or with low self-esteem or aspirations. 

PP students will achieve the school target of 97% attendance in all year groups. (school target)  

Literacy Whole School 

Renaissance Accelerated Reader continues to be a core focus for the English department for years 7-8 and the two lowest groups in year 9. The key stage 3 coordinator for English and the library work together to ensure year 7 and 8 are quizzing on completion of a reading book and making progress in STAR Reading (an online assessment of students’ reading growth, which takes place three times over the course of the year). 

The average pass rate for quizzing for PP students will match the pass rate for the whole year group.

The average improvement in STAR reading ages for PP students has a difference of +0.00 (0 months) or is higher when compared with the whole year group.    

One to One DWHS Tuition and February/Easter Revision

Students are provided with addition targeted revision to support progress toward their target grades and beyond.

The DWHS one to one tuition project will include short, regular sessions (30 minutes, once a week) over a set period of time (6-12 weeks).  Research from the Sutton Trust has shown this intervention has optimum impact.  

The DWHS one to one Tuition programme will involve sixth form students tutoring 20 targeted students in Year 11. 

Intensive targeted tuition in small classes to meet the individual needs; based on the texts, topics or areas of personalised development.  

The courses are to be planned to give a clear understanding of the essentials of the syllabus and to teach exam techniques, so that students can use their knowledge to best effect. 

Subsidised Trips

Funding available to ensure PP students are able to attend educational trips that build cultural capital and deepen understanding of specific elements of their courses.  

40% or in option subjects the ratio between PP and non-PP students attend school trips. 

Pupil Support Programme

Funding is available to ensure students who are experiencing financial difficulty can assess additional school materials, uniform and activities they that would ordinarily not be able to.  

Access to pupil support will extend across Year 7 to Year 11. 

Music Lessons

We provide the opportunity for free music lessons to pupils and encourage their families to get involved by attending the musical performances.   

At least 75% of students on the music scholarship programme will be PP 

PP students will achieve ‘Grading’s’ in line with non-PP students. 

Clubs

Provision for extra-curricular clubs and activities to support pupil premium students via the house system. 

PP students will be targeted to attend school clubs and extracurricular opportunities.  

Mentors

This provides students with someone who can work with them in a variety of ways to ensure that their learning opportunities are maximised.   This can include guidance with homework or coursework, support within lessons, help with organisation, attendance or punctuality.

 

33% of students on the mentoring programme will be PP. 

Learning walks and work scrutinises will show PP students, who are accessing mentoring, performing in class at the same level as their peers due to the techniques and discussion from the mentoring sessions.

Effective review of pupil provision 

Performance indicator

To evaluate the best strategies to improve the progress of Pupil Premium students.  

To evaluate the effectiveness of interventions and opportunities aimed at improving PP wellbeing and participation.

To further narrow the gap between PP and Non PP students where this exists. 

Effective IAG means PP students continue to pick EBACC subjects for their GCSE options. 


 

pupil premium programme research

Dormers Wells high school has used a number of sources to create a programme that engages Pupil Premium students of all ability and gender and make best use of the funding allocation.  Dormers Wells high school has used the DFE guidance and Education Endowment fund Research in particular to support our approaches, please see the links below

The programmes are designed to meet a tiered approach across three main strands:

  • Teaching
  • Targeted academic support
  • Wider strategies

Our focus has been too been to use the funding to continue to develop and measure the impact of the following in particular reference to Pupil Premium:

  • Pupil Progress
  • Provision for HAP PP students
  • Digital technology
  • Breakfast club
  • Providing high quality CPD
  • Student support services
  • Whole school literacy
  • Targeted small group revision session
  • Other educational opportunities
  • Finance support.

The delivery of this strategies has had to adapt during the periods of lockdown, however student and parental engagement has continued to be high on all the programmes.

Further information can be found by following the links below.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/supporting-the-attainment-of-disadvantaged-pupils

https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/public/files/Publications/Pupil_Premium_Guidance_iPDF.pdf

https://www.sec-ed.co.uk/best-practice/pupil-premium/694340/

PUPIL PREMIUM SPENDING...
AREA  
Staffing £260,902
Pupil Premium Whole School £12,000
Pupil Premium Year 7 £1,500
Year 9 Residential £6,988
School Trips £3,500
Overseas Trips £5,000
Gifted and Talented £10,000
Pupil support programme £10,000
School development £15,000
Clubs / Instructors £2,000
Literacy catch up £5,000
Litcheracy whole school £3,000
Pixl £7,000
Total £80,988
Total expenditure £341,890

 

pupil premium impact

Summer 2021 update and impact review

  • Pupil premium students performed fourteen percentage points below non-pupil premium students in terms of those achieving a grade 9-4 in English and mathematics.  64% of pupil premium students achieved a 9-4 grade in English and mathematics, compared to 80% of non-pupil premium students.
  • Non-pupil premium students performed better than pupil premium students when comparing grades 9-5 in English and mathematics. 41% of pupil premium students achieved a 9-5 in English and mathematics compared to 60% of non-pupil premium students. Whilst significant progress in this area was made prior to COVID lockdowns it remains an area of focus for the school.
  • The pupil premium progress 8 score was +0.33 in line with the 2018/19 figure. This was significantly above the 2018/19 last fully examined years national figure for all students of: -0.03 and PP students of -0.45.
Year No. of Year 11 students on roll at DWHS No. of Pupil Premium students at DWHS % of students achieving 9-4 in English and maths at DWHS National Figure
2016-2017 233 84 70% 63.3%
2017-2018 240 92 65% 64.2%
2018-2019 235 74 77% 64%
2019-2020 240 80 78% N/A
2020-2021 233 74 72% N/A
Year No. of Year 11 students on roll at DWHS          No. of Pupil Premium students at DWHS           % of pupil premium students achieving 9-4 in English and maths at DWHS National Figure         
2016-2017 233 84 70% 44.3%
2017-2018 240 92 62% 40.5%
2018-2019 235 74 69% No National Average
2019-2020 240 80 80% N/A
2020-2021 233 74 64% N/A
Year No. of Year 11 students on roll at DWHS No. of Pupil Premium students at DWHS % of non-pupil premium students achieving 9-4 in English and maths at DWHS National Figure
2016-2017 233 84 68% 71.2%
2017-2018 240 92 65% 71.5%
2018-2019 235 74 80% 72%
2019-2020 240 80 74% N/A
2020-2021 233 74 80% N/A