Pupil premium monies are received by the college for the following groups:

• Free School Meal +6 children (Ever received free school meals in the last 6 years
• Children that are looked after
• Service families

153 children are eligible to receive Pupil Premium Funding. Each student attracts £900 worth of funding. The college has been allocated £137,500 pupil premium funding.

Pupil Premium budget

Effectiveness from 2012/13

£94696 was received from the government for Pupil Premium, the rules of spending were the same as they are this year.

The budget for last year's pupil premium is below:-

The effectiveness of one to one has now been analysed and from last year's cohort. In English (please do not forget the national issue with English grade boundaries). 75 students received 1:1 support that was put in place.

Measuring Impact RAISE online shows a gap between pupil premium students and those not in receipt of the pupil premium. The cohort that received pupil premium were weaker than the rest of the year group, case studies of these students are available.  Current tracking shows that the levels of progress attained by students within College is positive when compared against the RAISE online library data available for each subject area.

Year 7 Catch up Premium Report

Income 12/13

The Catch up premium received was £12 000.  Students that were under level 4 national benchmark in Reading and/or Mathematics in Year 6 were allocated £500. This was spent in the following ways:- 

• Smaller Class Sizes
• One to one tuition

Impact

84% of students receiving the catch up premium were on track to reach their FFT D target for the end of Key Stage 3, according to teacher assessment taken in Summer 2013. 16% of students are now over the national benchmark for Year 6.

Income 13/14

24 results were below level 4 in either Reading or Mathematics in the current Year 7 when they sat their SATs exams in Year 6. Therefore we are expecting £12000.

The monies are being spent in the following ways:-

• Accelerated Reader Programme
• Mathematics Intervention Programme

Both strategies are in the College’s Improvement Plan. Early signs are that both strategies are working extremely well.