Pupil Premium
Strategy statement 2020
School overview
Metric | Data |
School name | Axe Valley Academy |
Pupils in school | 585 |
Proportion of disadvantaged pupils | 30.2% |
Pupil premium allocation this academic year | £170,599 |
Academic year or years covered by statement | 2020/21 |
Publish date | October 2020 |
Review date | October 2021 |
Statement authorised by | Laura Jenkins |
Pupil premium lead | Jon Scott |
Governor lead | Amanda Bujneiwicz |
Disadvantaged pupil performance overview for last academic year
Progress 8 | -0.30 |
Ebacc entry | 12.5% |
Attainment 8 | 39.27 |
Percentage of Grade 5+ in English and maths | 27.6% |
Strategy aims for disadvantaged pupils
Aim | Target | Target date |
Progress 8 | Achieve top quartile for progress made by disadvantaged pupils amongst similar schools | Sept 21 |
Attainment 8 | Achieve national average for attainment for all pupils | Sept 21 |
Percentage of Grade 5+ in English and maths | Achieve average English and maths 5+ scores for similar schools | Sept 21 |
Percentage of Grade 4+ in English and maths | Achieve average English and maths 4+ scores for similar schools | Sept 21 |
Other | Improve attendance to national average | Sept 21 |
Ebacc entry | Better national average EBacc Entry for all pupils | Sept 21 |
Teaching priorities for current academic year
Measure | Activity |
Priority 1 | Implementation of the best available evidence from cognitive science across the curriculum. |
Priority 2 | Regular staff CPD sessions to practise and develop aspects of pedagogy. |
Barriers to learning these priorities address | Some students do not have access to a broad and ambitious curriculum. |
Projected spending | £60,000 |
Targeted academic support for current academic year
Measure | Activity |
Priority 1 | Reading and literacy interventions ran by SEN dept and TAs, including Lexia and Fresh Start phonics. |
Priority 2 | In class intervention activities designed to close the gap for all students below expected progress and disadvantaged students only making expected progress. |
Barriers to learning these priorities address | Some students may not be working at an age related level and have conceptual gaps or misconceptions |
Projected spending | £57,000 |
Wider strategies for current academic year
Measure | Activity |
Priority 1 | All learners to read a lot more e.g. reading short stories with their tutors twice a week, increased library use and increased reading across the curriculum. |
Priority 2 | Increasing attendance and decrease PA rates through targeted mental health intervention. |
Barriers to learning these priorities address | In some cases, a lack of regular routines including home reading, homework, spelling and having equipment in school. |
Projected spending | £53,599 |
Monitoring and implementation
Area | Challenge | Mitigating action |
Teaching | Ensuring enough time is given over to allow for staff professional development. | Use of INSET days and additional cover provided by SLT. Additional department time given to all subjects. |
Targeted support | Coverage of TAs to run literacy interventions. | TAs timetable protected with emergency SLT cover put in place, so interventions run. |
Wider strategies | Engagement from learners (and their families) to come into school and access supportive strategies such as reading | Working closely with the learners and their families to overcome barriers. Using various outreach programmes to support the process. |
Review: last year’s aims and outcomes
Aim | Outcome |
Ensure that progress measures for PP learners are in line with or better than that of the whole cohort | Not achieved P8 -0.30 v 0.15 Att8 39.27 v 49.55 |
Support the higher aspirations of particularly able PP learners and ensure they have access to the aspire programme | Achieved – All HPA PP learners had access to the Aspire programme and meaningful interventions from Sep – March. 25% of ASPIRE programme were PP learners |
Ensure that PP leaners remain in education or training post 16. | Achieved – 0% NEET. |
Ensure that PP learners participate in fully in the rewards system and take full advantage of the leadership opportunities. | Achieved – Every PP learner gained achievement points across the year, 70% of PP learners gained at least a bronze award (Covid – 19 disruption hampered this). 38% of Year 11 prefects were PP. 45% of the student voice were PP. 36% of the Antibullying ambassadors were PP. |
Increase the attendance % and decrease the PA rate for PP learners | Partially achieved – not enough progress (Covid – 19 disruption hampered progress) The gap in attendance and PA rates did reduce with a number of school days saved. |