Pupil Premium

The Pupil Premium is a funding grant to support action in schools to narrow the gap in progress and attainment between students from less advantaged circumstances

The pupil premium strategy at Manshead CE Academy is a three-year plan to tackle gaps in attainment and progress between the pupil premium cohort and our non-pupil premium cohort.

Our approach will be responsive to common challenges and individual needs, rooted in robust diagnostic assessment, not assumptions about the impact of disadvantage. At the heart of the strategy is high quality teaching, both in the classroom and in other areas of school life. The Educational Endowment Fund (EEF) identifies ‘an effective teacher in front of every class’ as a key ingredient to the success of pupil premium strategies. This is something taken seriously and a programme of professional development linked to teaching and learning is always high priority. Metacognition is one such high impact / low cost strategy (EEF Teacher Toolkit) that has been a focus of our training since 2021-2022. A focus on literacy in particularly reading and oral language is also a focus (Improving Literacy in Secondary Schools).

Staffing throughout the academy deployed to effectively teach and challenge our Pupil Premium Pupils is a main focus of our strategy. Targeted academic support is also key. Evidence consistently shows the positive impact that targeted academic support can have, including on those who are not making good progress (The EEF Guide to the Pupil Premium—Autumn 2021).

Our strategy is outlined in the Pupil Premium Strategy Statement for 2022-2023 noted in the link below but the intent is that intervention is targeted, delivered effectively by high quality staff and that the impact is properly monitored. The intervention strategy is also integral to wider school plans for education recovery, notably the catch-up funding programme to support pupils whose education has been worst affected, including non-disadvantaged pupils. Wider strategies will also play a key role.

Fundamental to the plan is a long-term community strategy to ensure disadvantaged families; pupils and parents / carers feel a sense of belonging within the school community. The intention is to ensure that pupils eligible for Pupil Premium funding and their parents / carers are proportionally represented across all positive aspects of our school life and feel fully integrated into the community.

Underpinning all of the above is attendance. If pupils are not in school the strategy is simply words on a page, attendance is key to success. Therefore, attendance will always be a focus for our strategy. This includes ‘active attendance’ as simply being in school isn’t enough, are pupils need to be in the right place, with the right mindset each day to ensure they are making progress.

 Pupil Premium Strategy Statement - 2022-2023

Pupil Premium Strategy Statement - 2023-2024 

Pupil Premium Evaluation (Outturn) for 2022-2023

Pupil Premium Evaluation (Outturn)- 2022-2023

Pupil Premium Evaluation (Outturn) - 2023-2024