Elizabeth Bramley, headteacher and drawback technique lead of Oakdene Major Academy, Billington, tells us how she makes use of the pupil premium grant to lift attainment so that every one pupils obtain success.
Managing a faculty with a bigger than common pupil premium cohort implies that embedding our pupil premium supply into our entire college method is essential.
We now have developed our pupil premium technique according to the DfE’s 5 step method and assets. It focuses on 4 key components:
- analysis knowledgeable approaches,
- bespoke curriculum design,
- excessive expectations for each youngster and colleague.
Utilising this technique we’ve efficiently lifted the attainment of our pupil premium cohort to nicely above the nationwide common yr on yr.
Lively evaluation
Growing and evaluating our pupil premium technique is vital and information is a crucial driver to allow this.
We guarantee our academics have entry to our newest information to assist steady energetic evaluation and prognosis of all our pupils’ wants and required interventions. For instance, by means of our energetic evaluation, we recognized that our deprived cohort are considerably behind their friends in creating early language abilities. Alongside monitoring these pupils studying attainment, our college leaders additionally observe pupil’s vocabulary software throughout lessons every day.
These lesson visits encourage ongoing conversations about evaluation outcomes, enabling all employees to have a agency understanding about what every youngster wants to spice up their success
Analysis knowledgeable approaches
Our technique has been influenced by the contributions of Marc Rowland, deprived learners’ adviser at Unity Colleges Partnership. Certainly one of Marc’s key messages, “The trainer is the intervention” has knowledgeable how we deploy adults in class.
We now have adopted a tiered method as beneficial by the Schooling Endowment Basis and supported by means of the DfE’s menu of approaches, and according to this method, high quality first instructing is all the time central to our pupil premium technique.
Every year we evaluation our pupil premium technique by forensically assessing our progress. This gives us with a deep understanding of what’s making a distinction for deprived pupils and what extra we will obtain. Enabling us to create additional alternatives for all colleagues to utilise evidence-based approached within the classroom.
Bespoke curriculum design
Our curriculum fosters inclusivity by means of engagement with dad and mom, in addition to utilizing capital funding to bolster out of doors schooling and our tutorial provision.
As famous above, enhancing early language abilities is a precedence for our pupil premium cohort. It is a key focus of our curriculum in order that kids change into articulate and assured communicators. This allows our learners to grapple with complicated and vital issues and discuss confidently about their studying.
We spend money on CPD on language growth for all employees by means of the pupil premium, in addition to funding extra focused programmes resembling Accelerated Reader and Lexia.
In addition to enhancing our pupils’ achievements, our pupil premium technique cultivates greatest observe sharing and underlines our skilled growth.
Excessive expectations for each youngster and colleague
Excessive expectations of each member of the varsity group, from employees to pupil, are a trademark of our college tradition. Pupils are explicitly taught learn how to behave nicely and deal with each other courteously and respect. Our pupils are energetic members within the creation of a optimistic college tradition. By having such excessive expectations of all our pupils, no matter background, we allow pupils to have excessive expectations and aspirations for themselves. Everybody in our college understands, shares, and celebrates this tradition, which is a key pillar of our success.
Additional assets:
DfE publications:
Pupil premium: overview – GOV.UK
Pupil premium: allocations and circumstances of grant 2024 to 2025 – GOV.UK
Utilizing Pupil Premium: Steerage for College Leaders
Schooling Endowment Basis assets:
The EEF Information to the Pupil Premium | EEF
Educating and Studying Toolkit | EEF
DfE pupil premium webinars and blogs:
Pupil premium technique planning webinar: insights from colleges | DfE – YouTube
