Pupil Premium

The Pupil Premium Grant (PPG) is an allocation of additional funding to schools to

• raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils of all abilities to reach their potential. 
• Support children with parents in the regular armed forces
• support children in care defined in the Children Acy 1989 as one who is in care of, or provided with accommodation by, an English Local Authority.

School Context

At Barming Primary School we have high aspirations and ambitions for our children and we believe that no child should be left behind in any aspect of their development whether academic, social or physical.  We believe in a holistic approach that develops the whole child. We strongly believe that social background and the locality of where children live should not be an excuse or reason not to achieve or succeed.  We work together as a school community to ensure that our pupils are given every chance to realise their full potential and encourage life-long learning.  All children are encouraged to have a thirst for knowledge, be inquisitive and to foster curiosity of the wider world.

When making decisions on how to use our pupil premium funding effectively we have made use of a range of research, most prominently the Education Endowment Foundation’s Teaching and Learning Toolkit, which analyses the impact and value for money of a variety of interventions.

Effective strategies used include:

• Access to quality first teaching
• Effective deployment of teaching assistants
• One to one tuition
• Oral language interventions
• Parental involvement
• Reading comprehension strategies
• Small group tuition
• Social and emotional learning

We have embedded a robust system of assessment and monitoring based on the use of Arbor data and termly pupil progress meetings. Pupils not making expected progress are rapidly identified and appropriate strategies are put in place. All disadvantaged pupils are highlighted in each pupil progress meeting, even if they are on-track in their learning, to ensure that they remain a constant focus. We evaluate the provision for those children eligible for the pupil premium grant, and the resulting impact, including for our most able.

On entry, all pupils are screened using Infant Language Link, which supports us in planning appropriate interventions to address low language levels in Year R.

Our Inclusion Manager works closely with parents to help mitigate the adverse effects of external factors, and to help increase parental aspirations and engagement.

The action plan detailing the allocation of the Pupil Premium Grant can be found in the strategy document below.