Pupil Premium

The Pupil Premium Grant (PPG) 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.

Schools receive funding for each child registered as eligible for free school meals at any point in the last 6 years, for any pupil who has been has been adopted from care or has been looked after for 1 day or more and for pupils from families where a parent serves in the armed forces.

At Bidford School PPG is utilised in a number of ways to progress learning and emotional wellbeing. Pupils are targeted and work is planned. This may be in the form of one to one or group work and these interventions are time limited and are maintained and evaluated regularly. A triangulation of assessments is used to ascertain impact and each child's progress is mapped against monies spent and achievement made.

Our Pupil Premium strategy and its impact on the previous year is reviewed annually in the Autumn term.

As at Autumn 2023

  • 18.65% of our pupils qualified for Free School Meals.
  • 20.26% of our pupils have qualified in the last 6 years.
  • 2.5% of our pupils are looked after or have been adopted from care.
  • 0.96% of our pupils are service children.

2023/24

During this academic year we are expecting to receive £119,120.

Our strategy aims for the year are:

  • Priority 1 – Embed long term retention of knowledge and basic skills across the curriculum.
  • Priority 2 – Address the impact of social, emotional and mental health needs on learning behaviours by developing pupil resilience, aspiration, expectations and concentration.
  • Priority 3 – Reduce the post covid levels of persistent absence.
  • Priority 4 – To support pupils where financial resources or family cohesion limit achievement.
  • Priority 5 – Confidence with communication, language skills, thinking skills, problem solving and reasoning.

2022/23

During this academic year we are expecting to receive £113,069.

Our strategy aims for the year are:

  • Priority 1 – Security of basic skills in core subjects – maths/writing/phonics.
  • Priority 2 – Learning behaviours – resilience, aspiration, expectation, concentration.
  • Priority 3 – Attendance.
  • Priority 4 – Family financial resources and cohesion; home learning support.
  • Priority 5 – Confidence with language skills, thinking skills, problem solving and reasoning.

2021/22

During this academic year our school received £97,028.

Our strategy aims for the year were:

  • Priority 1 – Security of basic skills in core subjects – maths/writing.
  • Priority 2 – Learning behaviours – resilience, aspiration, expectation, concentration.
  • Priority 3 – Attendance.
  • Priority 4 – Family financial resources and cohesion; home learning support.
  • Priority 5 – Confidence with language skills, thinking, problem solving and reasoning.

2020/21

During this academic year our school received £66,331.

Our strategy aims for the year were:

  • Priority 1 - Targeted provision supports gaps in learning.
  • Priority 2 - Pastoral care/mental health provision supports pupil well-being and engagement.
  • Priority 3 - Develop communications and support for families.

2019/20

During this academic year our school received £56,363.

The money was spent on:

  • Priority 1 - Developing age appropriate reading, phonics, maths and writing skills. The lockdown curriculum focussed on literacy and numeracy basic skills – key worker and vulnerable pupil attending school engaged actively in their work and made appropriate progress, particularly in reading and calculation skills.
  • Priority 2 – Ensuring pastoral support ensures pupil engagement and motivation. A range of nurture provision ensured that the majority of pupils engaged actively in lessons. One to one support and an adapted curriculum ensured vulnerable pupils took part regularly in planned activities.
  • Priority 3 – Enabling pupils with additional needs to access the curriculum and develop greater resilience and self-directed learning skills. Differentiation and targeted support ensured pupils engaged with confidence in daily activities.
  • Priority 4 - Ensuring identified pupils attend regularly and are punctual. Lockdown impacted on overall attendance. Identified vulnerable pupils were offered places in school and attendance overall was good.

2018/19

During this academic year our school received £54,711.

The money was spent on:

  • Targeted interventions including One to One tuition, phonic, comprehension skills, pre-teaching, fine motor skills, speech and language groups and providing staff for targeted maths and literacy groups for pupils working below age related expectations, as well as boost groups for MAG&T pupils.
  • In-house counselling and play therapy sessions.
  • Developing new mindfulness and emotional well-being groups.
  • Specific pastoral programmes and continuation of formal nurture groups.
  • Continuing use of external services for extended pastoral care.
  • Specialist provision to enhance our SEND practice.
  • Curriculum resources
  • Additional forest school sessions
  • Supporting families – clothing, music tuition, parent workshops, extra-curricular activities and cultural opportunities.

2017/18

During this academic year our school received £53,378.

The money was spent on:

  • Maintaining existing interventions including One to One tuition, targeted phonic, reading, speech and language groups and providing staff for targeted maths and literacy teaching groups.
  • Further development of initiatives for enhanced learning and pastoral support for MAG&T pupils.
  • Maintaining programmes of mindfulness as an approach to behaviour modification and emotional well being.
  • Developing pupils’ peer mediation skills.
  • Specific pastoral programmes and continuation of formal nurture groups in school.
  • Continuing use of external services for pupil counselling and extended pastoral care.
  • Specialist provision to enhance our SEND practice (COP 2014).
  • Curriculum and sensory resources.
  • Extra curricular activities.

2016/17

During this academic year our school received £61,982.

The money was spent on:

  • Continuation of existing interventions including One to One tuition, targeted phonic, reading, speech and language groups and maintaining additional staff for targeted maths and literacy.
  • Further development of initiatives for enhanced learning and pastoral support for MAG&T pupils.
  • Introduction of mindfulness as an approach to behavior modification and emotional well being.
  • Training to develop pupils’ peer mediation skills.
  • Specific pastoral programmes and continuation of formal nurture groups in school.
  • Continuing use of external services for pupil counselling and extended pastoral care.
  • Specialist provision to enhance our SEND practice (COP 2014).
  • Curriculum and sensory resources.
  • Extra curricular activities.

Average progress by prior attainment for Pupil Premium children in Reading was well above national average for low, middle and high attaining pupils. Writing was above national for low and high attaining pupils and Maths was above national for high attaining pupils.

2015/16

During this academic year our school received £73,414.

The money was spent on:

  • Maintenance of existing interventions including One to One tuition, targeted phonic, reading, speech and language groups and targeted numeracy support.
  • Maintaining additional staff for targeted maths and literacy.
  • Investment in whole school behaviour modification training.
  • Specific pastoral programmes and continuation of formal nurture groups in school.
  • Initiatives for enhanced learning and pastoral support for MAG&T pupils.
  • Continuing use of external services for pupil counselling and extended pastoral care.
  • Specialist provision to enhance our SEND practice (COP 2014).
  • Participation in a Community Art project.
  • Curriculum and sensory resources.
  • Extra curricular activities.

Again this year, impact both academic and personal has been positive, delivering support and guidance tailored to particular and relevant needs.

2014/15

During the academic year our school received £79,533.

The money has been spent on:

  • Continuing existing interventions including One to One tuition, targeted phonic, reading, speech and language groups and targeted numeracy support.
  • Maintaining additional teacher for targeted maths and literacy.
  • Specific pastoral programmes and maintenance of formal nurture groups in school.
  • Continuing use of external services for pupil counselling and extended pastoral care.
  • Specialist provision to enhance our SEND practice (COP 2014).
  • Curriculum resources.
  • Extra curricular activities.

In 2015 the progress of our PPG children was above or in line with similar pupils and non PPG children nationally in Reading, Writing and Maths.

2013/14

During the academic year our school received £59,050.

This money was spent on:

  • Maintaining existing interventions including One to One tuition, targeted phonic, reading and speech and language groups and targeted numeracy support.
  • Additional teacher for maths and literacy.
  • Investing in Staff Nurture Group training in order to establish formal nurture groups in school.
  • Further develop utilisation of local and national support agencies for extended pastoral care.
  • Additional curriculum resources.
  • Extra curricular activities.

In 2014 all four of our PPG children made expected progress (two levels) by the end of Key Stage 2 in Reading. Three of the four children made expected progress in Writing and Maths.

2012/13

During the academic year our school received £41,903.

This money was spent on providing:

  • Reading and Maths resources.
  • Speech and Language resources.
  • One to One Tuition.
  • Targeted phonic and speech and language groups.
  • Targeted numeracy support.
  • Additional teacher for maths and literacy in Spring 2013.
  • Additional pastoral support group sessions.
  • Focused continual professional development.
  • Extra Curricular Activities

In 2013 the progress made by Free School Meals children exceeded national expectations in Reading, was in line in Maths and was broadly in line in Writing.

2011/12

During the academic year 2011/12 our school received a total of £23,824.

This money was spent on providing:

  • One to One Tuition.
  • Additional small group teaching in maths and literacy.
  • Additional pastoral support group sessions.
  • Booster Groups.
  • Focused continual professional development.
  • Additional curriculum resources.
  • Extra Curricular Activities.

The results on pupil attainment have been:

In 2012 all free school meals children made expected progress (2 levels) by the end of Key Stage 2.