Pupil Premium Funding and Catch Up Funding 2020 to 2021 - Update February 2021
Use of Pupil Premium at St Luke’s Academic Year 2020-21
What is Pupil Premium Funding?
The Pupil Premium is additional funding given to publicly funded schools in England to raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils and close the gap between them and their peers.
Pupil Premium Funding is available to both mainstream and non-mainstream schools, such as special schools and pupil referral units.
In the 2020 to 2021 financial year, St Luke’s will receive £1,320 funding for each child registered as eligible for free school meals at any point in the last 6 years. We will also receive £2,300 for each looked-after pupil who:
How much will we receive?
We are expecting to receive £60,835 in pupil premium funding this year.
What will the Pupil Premium Funding spent on during 2020-21?
We have identified key areas for support for all of the children (who are entitled to pupil premium funding). We are then targeting support to the children in those areas. This academic year the Pupil Premium funding will be used to:
Improve Teaching
The Pupil Premium is additional funding given to publicly funded schools in England to raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils and close the gap between them and their peers.
Pupil Premium Funding is available to both mainstream and non-mainstream schools, such as special schools and pupil referral units.
In the 2020 to 2021 financial year, St Luke’s will receive £1,320 funding for each child registered as eligible for free school meals at any point in the last 6 years. We will also receive £2,300 for each looked-after pupil who:
- has been looked after for 1 day or more
- was adopted from care on or after 30 December 2005, or left care under:
- a special guardianship order
- a residence order
- one of their parents is serving in the regular armed forces
- one of their parents served in the regular armed forces in the last 3 years
- one of their parents died while serving in the armed forces and the pupil is in receipt of a pension under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme (AFCS) and the War Pensions Scheme (WPS)
How much will we receive?
We are expecting to receive £60,835 in pupil premium funding this year.
What will the Pupil Premium Funding spent on during 2020-21?
We have identified key areas for support for all of the children (who are entitled to pupil premium funding). We are then targeting support to the children in those areas. This academic year the Pupil Premium funding will be used to:
Improve Teaching
- Train staff (teachers and TAs) to develop their skills in delivering reading and writing skills and to understanding key priorities for maths teaching, including concrete, pictorial and abstract representations
- Focussed support for teachers at the early stages of their careers
- To carryout small group/individual sessions for English, Maths and Emotional Needs to be carried out in classrooms/bubbles.
- Fund additional teaching assistants to provide extra support within class to children in receipt of pupil premium. This support will focus on improving English, Maths and Communication skills in their preferred environment. Leaders will ensure that teachers and teaching assistants are aware of where and how the support for children in their class should be targeted
- Develop individual plans for all children which identify their emotional stage and demonstrate clear strategies to improve their emotional level
- Devising PSHE units and activities that focus on developing their emotional understanding.
- Deliver a researched approach to improving communication and interaction skills in the early years
- By providing Clinical Psychology Support for a number of children
- Provide resources and educational experiences (for example, contributions to school visits) to enhance the quality of education and the children’s personal development for children, including a financial contribution to ensure all children in receipt of the pupil premium can access the year 6 residential visit.
Catch Up Funding
What is Catch Up Funding?
Catch up Funding is extra funding given to schools to support children and young people to catch up lost time after school closure. This is especially important for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged backgrounds.
How much Catch Up Funding will St Luke's Receive?
During the Academic Year 2020-21 we will receive £30,000 in Catch Up Funding.
How will the funding be spent?
The funding will be spent to help all children catch up on the education that they have missed. Due to the bubble system in school it is not practical to having a large number of staff members crossing bubbles. Therefore the £30,000 funding has been put together with £30,000 of the Pupil Premium Funding to ensure that each Key Stage has extra teaching assistant support, which will enable individual and small group support for children. Areas for extra support have been identified from teacher assessments in the first half of the Autumn Term.
A key role for class staff with be to support Children's Emotional Well-Being, particularly in line with children having a substantial amount of time out of school and repeated school or bubble closures.
What is the Expected Impact of the Catch Up Funding?
All children were assessed in the Autumn Term. We would expect that by the end of the Summer Term children make greater progress than normal due to the use of the Catch Up Funding.
Catch up Funding is extra funding given to schools to support children and young people to catch up lost time after school closure. This is especially important for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged backgrounds.
How much Catch Up Funding will St Luke's Receive?
During the Academic Year 2020-21 we will receive £30,000 in Catch Up Funding.
How will the funding be spent?
The funding will be spent to help all children catch up on the education that they have missed. Due to the bubble system in school it is not practical to having a large number of staff members crossing bubbles. Therefore the £30,000 funding has been put together with £30,000 of the Pupil Premium Funding to ensure that each Key Stage has extra teaching assistant support, which will enable individual and small group support for children. Areas for extra support have been identified from teacher assessments in the first half of the Autumn Term.
A key role for class staff with be to support Children's Emotional Well-Being, particularly in line with children having a substantial amount of time out of school and repeated school or bubble closures.
What is the Expected Impact of the Catch Up Funding?
All children were assessed in the Autumn Term. We would expect that by the end of the Summer Term children make greater progress than normal due to the use of the Catch Up Funding.