Engage - Pupil Premium 2023/24

Disadvantaged student performance overview for last academic year

GCSE Pass Rate 86%

Percentage of Grade 4+ in Maths and English GCSE = 14% English and 25% Maths.

The main barriers faced by eligible students in 2022- 2023 are:

1. Some struggle to attend regularly and of these some are persistently absent.

2. Some students need extensive pastoral support for a variety of reasons.
3. Some students struggle with the increased complexity of organization with a secondary environment and increased demands for independent work.
4. Some students struggle to manage their behaviour and emotions 
5. Some students face significant challenges in their lives and have social, emotional and mental health needs that prevent them from learning.
6. Some students have low levels of literacy and numeracy which impedes their learning and their confidence.
7. Some students with high prior attainment need additional help to enable them to fully achieve their potential.
8. Some students need targeted support to understand and use extended forms of spoken English.
9. Some students have little aspiration for the future and so do not understand why they need to do well in their exams and so limit their own potential.
10. Some students lack access to the internet and the use of computers to support their studies.
11. Some students lack space to study with adult support.
12. Some students need to experience a wealth of enrichment experiences in-order to widen their horizons and unlock future opportunities.
13. School uniform can cause significant challenges for some families as can transport.
14. Some students do not have access to a healthy diet which impacts on their general well-being.
15. All students need the highest quality of teaching in every classroom.

How we use Pupil Premium to meet some of these needs:

Pupil premium is used in a variety of ways to support disadvantaged students to attend and achieve in line with their peers. 

1. 60% (£37,881) is allocated to actions focussed on learning in the curriculum including: contribution towards staffing of small groups for maths, English and science and resources to aid learning such as on-line resources and specialist equipment including BKSB, Century and Microsoft Teams. Additional funds went into funding science resources for practical lessons and devices to aid further learning within English such as kindles.   We have also included considerable resources to support students to remain in class that support with ASD and ADHD needs. 
2. 20% (£12,627) is allocated to actions and reasonable adjustments focussed on social, emotional and behavioural issues, provision of uniform, providing free bus passes to all learners and the provision of breakfast club - to ensure that all students feel like they belong and PPE allowing students to access vocational lessons.
3. 20% (£12,627) is allocated to actions focussed on enrichment beyond the curriculum: trips to raise aspirations, rewards for positive contribution, awards, guest speakers, engagement with effective stakeholders around careers, employers, information advice and guidance which includes trips to employment events and visits to industry work placements.