St Thomas More Catholic School Pupil Premium Plan
What is Pupil Premium in the light of our values at St Thomas More Catholic School?
Pope Francis June 2019 : Catholic News Agency
“Scripture constantly speaks of God acting on behalf of the poor. He is the one who ‘hears their cry’ and ‘comes to their aid’; he ‘protects’ and ‘defends’ them; he ‘rescues’ and ‘saves’ them... Indeed, the poor will never find God indifferent or silent in the face of their plea.”
He said it is the obligation of the Christian to care for those who are vulnerable, because Christ identifies with those in poverty. Therefore it is an important part of our Mission at St Thomas More Catholic School.
With this in mind at St Thomas More School we are committed to the care and success of every pupil in a way that is rooted in the values of the gospel. Where students struggle with the weight of poverty or disadvantage we harness the PP funding so that through the educational opportunities that we provide we may support them in an ongoing way.
This support takes the form of planned spending of the PP money to ensure that students have every opportunity to flourish in the learning environment at St Thomas More School. So, PP money is used to enable support for individual students through intervention as well as to retain where possible a low student teacher ratio to enable bespoke packages with individuals. To this end the PP spend is both individual and general, always with a strong focus on the impact of the spending.
(Please see the spend document and impact documents)
Who is eligible?
Pupil Premium was introduced in April 2011 and is allocated to students who are in one of the following categories…
- Children who are Looked After (LAC);
- Children who are currently eligible for Free School Meals;
- Children who have received Free School Meals in the last six years (Ever 6 children);
- Children who are within a service family;
- Children adopted from care, or children who have left care under Special Guardianship order since December 2005 (Pupil Premium Plus) - since April 2014.
We encourage therefore all our families who are struggling financially to apply for Free Schools Meals. Please use the link below in order to make an application or feel free to make an appointment at school in order to seek further clarification
Pupil Premium Spending Statement and Review 2021-22
Pupil Premium Spending Statement and Review 2020-21
ADVANTAGE PLAN Pupil Premium Spending Statement 2019-20
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Initiative |
Cost |
Intended Impact |
Evidence |
Actual Impact |
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STAFFING ENGLISH AND MATHS: Intervention small groups – additional subject specific LSA staff in English and Maths
Teachers i/c PP in English and Maths Lead Teacher in Maths Intervention
Set up costs for the Hall to be set up for an additional mock
GL Assessment to To diagnose early reading issues To take constructive action to deal with gaps in reading To build up reading ability and to foster a word rich culture |
2x £19000= £38,000 £2500 £2500= £5000 £5000
£500
£7,000 |
For all PP students to achieve expected target grades and to close the gap between them and non- pupil premium students To provide small group tuition for PP students to enable them to received focus and targeted support in English and Maths To offer extra-curricular Literacy and Numeracy support to enable all learners to be confident in these areas of the curriculum
Identification of needs so that student friendly strategies can be put in place to raise reading age to be led by SEDDCO and Literacy Co-ordintor
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Ongoing tracking of PP students by subject teachers and tutors Focus groups in place with evidence of monitoring Literacy and Numeracy intervention in English and Maths for all students Plans and meetings taking place to begin early interventions in Reading for Year 7 (SENDCO) PP students invited in Year 11 to Saturday Mocks to include personal feedback to signpost improvements Additional Mock for English and Maths to be set up in the Hall SLT Link meetings to focus on PP students as part of the targeted conversations to retain a strong focus on this group and to hone pertinent interventions Learning Walk evidence of PP focus PP Day Watch to capture PP student voice GL Assessments in place and in use to target students.
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MENTORING: Training of Sixth Formers for Peer Mentoring + use of other staff to do this mentoring
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£2500
£5,000 £2500 |
Students to gain 1:1 feedback on revision techniques which work to enable a choice of strategies All to access excellent careers guidance due to the formulation of the IAG plan and activities set against Gatsby Scales Mentoring support to enable learners to assess their own strengths and weaknesses and set achievable personal targets Mentoring to address or signpost pastoral needs so that these can be passed to the Emmaus centre for bespoke support |
Mentoring records IAG plans in place and a Careers Day planned for the July in order to raise aspirations of PP students. Whole school ongoing interventions Mentoring evaluation and records of the presentation of the success of the Mentoring sessions to SLT on a regular basis |
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TRANSPORT:
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£6000
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All disadvantaged students are able to access all extra-curricular activities |
Taxi records in place to enable students to take part in revision sessions if transport is an issue PP spend includes the records of students who are supported to attend school due to financial issues. Trips are supplemented by PP students where there are hardship issues |
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ABLE, GIFTED AND TALENTED:
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£6,000 |
Students are enabled to aspire to achieving at the highest level and realise there is no ceiling to their success Involving parents in their child’s learning to enable them to support their child at home |
Theatre Trips/ University visits and open days see Trip Records. English Workshops to Year 11 Herts for Learning workshops for Year 11 Staff led Revision sessions at weekends and holidays in English/Maths/RE ….
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PARENT WORKSHOPS:
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£500 |
Positive working partnership with parents so that they feel empowered to support their children in being successful at school Parents enable success by knowing how to help their students so that there is a real sense of collaboration embedded in the relationship with the school |
Evenings taking place and the % attendance of PP students is noted and encouraged. Allocation of Revision resources see the Departmental PP spend records for Core Subjects and for specific subject areas. (Annual Plan) See records of PP watch Use of Firefly and also platform for parents See Parental Consultation Records See feedback from the Intervention Days
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COURSES:
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£1500 £2500 £5000 £1000 |
Clearly focussed support for identified students in both academic and pastoral areas Exposure to new ideas on raising the profile of PP students through consultation with other schools using strategies which have been successful. Identification of champions at key stages to keep the focus on PP students and the relevant interventions to support these stages. |
Course attendance Consultation records Year 7 testing and transition arrangements Plans for Reading intervention and Maths intervention Pastoral leaders spending from their budget
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INTERVENTION PLANS – NOTIONAL COST:
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£5000
£19,000 |
All students achieve at least their target grades at the end of Key Stage 4 PP students provided with the support to achieve as well as non-PP students PP students kept within the teacher and departmental spotlight to retain a positive focus through accurate tracking with a clear focus on the disadvantaged and a raft of interventions |
Activities in place HODS able to describe ways in which they have kept the focus on PP students with accountability for their funding stream Focus 5 records to show interventions which were tried and then effectively evaluated.
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ALTERNATIVE CURRICULUM :
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£20,000
£500
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Identified students have a bespoke package which enables them to access the curriculum and achieve positive results External activities provided to enable students to develop outside of the curriculum on a personal, social and cultural level – developing the whole student T and L in the classroom is based on ambition spoken word : to be heralded at Briefings and other HOD meeting times
Training of staff on Teacher Talk and the importance of oracy in the classroom. NPQSL Project on ORACY across the Curriculum Workshops on Communication to enable confidence in our PP students. |
SENDCO accountability for students on support packages with an ability to explain progress. Case studies Impact statements Minutes of Briefing and PP Learning Walks. |
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TRACKING ATTAINMENT:
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£5000 |
Student progress is tracked with rigour so early intervention is put in place. |
Tracking for all students in place PP students drop down in place in order to bespoke the interventions BROMCOM in use by all staff to provide immediate information to enable learning in the classroom
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CORE SUBJECTS EXTRA INTERVENTION: MATHS, ENGLISH, SCIENCE, RELIGIOUS EDUCATION (£3,000 PER SUBJECT) Additional Subject allocation on the basis of numbers of students in Year 11 who are PP. Records are kept of the spending plans All subjects to promote actively the work of the Learning Scientists in T and L to improve the outcomes for all. (Staff training on this will be ongoing)
READING INTERVENTIONS Implementation Drop Everything and Read Intervention and Extended Reading LRC Interventions to build up resources for Year 7 Ensure that Form Classes have attractive reading books to support the desire to read. Also to support the 6 week of Reading initiative Explore a Communication Friendly Award to be an internal initiative in school. Initiative to look at language acquisition through the lens of SEE IT, SAY IT, SORT IT. GL Assessment
Use of LSAs to support Years 7 & 8 through pre teaching to students. To promote with all staff and in particular support staff who have such a key 1:1 role with students a mandate to be as ambitious as possible with the language that they use in the interactions with students. Give all staff the tools to read effectively with students in the classroom through careful modelling of the highest standards of reading so that this can be enjoyed. |
£20,000
£10,000
£10,000
£1,000
£500
£10,000
£1.000 |
Bespoke subject specific intervention strategies for students in addition to whole school strategies to ensure progress of PP students – (see individual grids for information on how this is utilised in each Core Subject and other subject area) Additional Subject Spending Grids Reading Initiatives started to impact on access to the curriculum Training of staff
Analysis of the incoming Year 7 has identified students for whom reading is a barrier to learning.
Tracking by Reading Age and then personalised interventions Confidence in reading as part of the gateway to curriculum implementation Accelerated Reader as a key intervention Use of the LRC for specific Reading Interventions Reward communication initiatives which wield success On entry our PP students tend to have lower Literacy skills. A tracking system with National Benchmarking allows better tracking of progress and use of targeting data Empower those with excellent supportive relationships with students to really support language development Ditto
Building confidence in reading |
Plans for intervention in place
These interventions are at the inception level and with come into fuller fruition going forward
Reading age records
Training Records Interventions with impact Observations of Reading and Language in the classrooms
Training records
Observations of staff interventions
Observation of reading in the classroom |
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TOTAL PP PROJECTED SPEND £188.000 2019-2020 |
188K |
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Year 7 Catch up Funding 11K
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Initiative |
Purpose |
Cost |
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GL Assessment |
To diagnose early reading issues To take constructive action to deal with gaps in reading To build up reading ability and to foster a word rich culture |
£3,000 (Towards the overall cost) |
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LRC Resources for Year 7 and input and presence for the English Department |
To encourage reading |
£3,500 |
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Online subscriptions to intervention packages and the uploading of learning packages to Firefly |
To foster independent reading |
£4.500 |