Pupil Premium Strategy (Including the Recovery Premium) 2022-2023
The Pupil Premium was introduced in April 2011 for children from low-income families who were eligible for free school meals (FSM), looked after children (LAC) and those families with parents in the Armed Forces. Eligibility for the pupil premium from 2012-2013 onwards was extended to pupils in year groups Reception to Year 11 who have been eligible for FSM at any point in the last six years and from April 2014, schools in England received additional funding for children adopted from care.
As in previous years this funding is in addition to the school’s budget and represents a major investment in pupils.
At Foxwood Academy we have a tiered approach to Pupil Premium, based on 'The EEF Guide to the Pupil Premium' of High Quality Teaching, Targeted Academic Support and Wider Strategies. This tiered approach is helpful in making decisions regarding the allocation of funding, energy, training and time.
High Quality Teaching
'Spending on developing high quality teaching may include investment in professional development, training and support for early career teachers, along with recruitment and retention. Ensuring an effective teacher is in front of every class, and that every teacher is supported to keep improving, is the key ingredient of a successful school and should rightly be a top priority for pupil premium spending.'
Targeted Academic Support
'Evidence consistently shows the positive impact that targeted academic support can have, including on those who are not making good progress, or those who have been
disproportionately impacted by the effects of the pandemic. Considering how classroom teachers and teaching assistants can provide targeted academic support, such as linking structured small group interventions to classroom teaching and the curriculum, is likely to be an essential ingredient of an effective pupil premium strategy.'
Wider Strategies
'Wider strategies relate to the most significant non-academic challenges to success in school, including attendance, behaviour, and social and emotional support, which also may negatively impact upon academic attainment. Given the impact of the pandemic, issues such as securing high levels of attendance may be more prominent for schools as they develop their strategy. While many challenges may be common between schools, it is also likely that the specific features of the community each school serves will affect
spending in this category.'
– Extract from the EEF Guide to the Pupil Premium - April 2022
During the current academic year it is expected that Foxwood Academy will receive just over £45,000 (with an additional £42,802 Recovery Premium) which will be used to raise achievement through a wide range of additional ‘resources’. Our belief is that to truly make an impact on the individual lives of the young people at whom this funding is aimed, we need to know and understand our students’ needs well. Whilst acknowledging that we do have small groups of students who have similar needs and would benefit from ‘pooled’ resources, there are many who require bespoke support and interventions to improve their life chances.
Alongside this is the indirect barrier to educational achievement that our eligible students face around what is their ‘local community’. With many students accessing LA transport each day their lives ‘out of school’ may not be enhanced by playing/meeting up with school friends or accessing after school clubs. Our parents too may feel more isolated from each other and the support networks that parents naturally provide, for example daily communication in the playground, for each other simply aren’t formed. Many of our students have additional medical needs which affect attendance and of course their health which again can require additional support from the communities around them. Again, we must continue to recognise and address the impact Covid-19 continues to have on our children, young people and their families. Feedback from our parent coffee mornings/afternoons has historically been positive and we will continue to facilitate these events that provide opportunity and a venue for our parents, carers and families to meet each other and share their experiences as soon as we can. We must also now consider the cost of living crisis and what will no doubt be a significant impact on our community.
In addition, we are committed to supporting our residential experience, peripatetic music lessons and the majority of our curriculum activities that have an additional cost to parents.
A percentage of the funding per student is also allocated for tutors / teachers to identify areas where there are ‘gaps’ between an individual pupil and their peers and request interventions to help narrow/close any gap. This may be in the area of Achievement and Progress, Attendance, Social skills and/or wider achievements. Staff complete a request for funding form stating the intervention/resource identified and what the impact and outcome for the individual will be. As a general rule this has been budgeted for £300 per student this academic year. This does need to be flexible though as some students will need more to be specifically assigned to them.
Each term staff have sight of and update the Intervention Plan which identifies the priority areas to focus on for each individual PP student. This is continually updated and never finished! The priority for all of our PP students is to be on target to reach their end of year / Key Stage target in line with the Foxwood Key Stage End Points (KSEPs) in all curriculum areas in addition to achieving their own individual EHCP outcomes. If any of these are ‘red’, the teacher of the subject will be asked to look at any potential barriers and identify interventions. Our Academy records show an agreed intervention with impact and outcomes measures and summarises the allocation per student.
Other examples of how the Pupil Premium Grant is being allocated to support individuals at Foxwood Academy include:
- Attendance as a priority
- Closing the gap in all curriculum areas
- Health and exercise programmes
- Behaviour strategies
- Adaptations to curriculum dependent on needs, for example Sensory input
- Provide access to professional services outside of the Academy, for example Speech and Language or Occupational therapy, Mental Health Service, CASY Counselling
- Home support for families
- Enrichment activities for any student whose family is unable to meet the financial costs or access
- Independent travel
We would encourage all parents and carers who may not have applied for Free School Meals, but may be entitled to them, to do so in order that their Son/Daughter can benefit from some of the great initiatives funded by the Pupil Premium grant.
To find out if you qualify for Free School Meals please telephone the following number in confidence. You will need to supply your name, address and National Insurance Number. The service will let you know straight away if you qualify and will notify us for you. This will help us to ensure that we continue to target our resources at students who need it most.
Tel – 0300 500 8080 or Mini-com - 01623 434 993
Alternatively you can apply online by clicking here
Our Foxwood Pupil Premium Strategy Statement is reviewed each academic year with the outcomes shared on the website by 31st December.
‘Every area of a child’s life is affected by the family.’
‘Unemployment by either or both parents causes financial hardship and social and emotional strain which can disrupt family life.’
Our vision is to:
- Work in partnership with our pupils and their families
- Raise aspirations and provide ‘real’ routes into paid employment
- Close the attainment gap in all areas of our curriculum
With the impact of Covid on Attendance for all groups of children in the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 academic years, comparisons of our Attendance data have been made from the 2018-2019 figures. This is in line with the DfE guidance.
It has been a priority for the 2021-2022 academic year to ensure that the impact of Covid does not negatively impact our Pupil Premium cohort any more than our non-Pupil Premium cohort.
The gap in Attendance for our Pupil Premium cohort has reduced by 0.9% (from 4.4% to 3.5%)
Cohort |
Academic Year 2018-2019 |
Academic Year 2019-2020 |
Academic Year 2020-2021 |
Academic Year 2021-2022 |
Pupil Premium |
89.3% |
87.7% |
83.6% |
89.9% |
Non-Pupil Premium |
93.7% |
92.7% |
85.4% |
93.4% |
LAC |
97.6% |
96.7% |
81.3% |
81.0% |
Non-LAC |
91.5% |
91.3% |
82.9% |
91.4% |
Whole Academy |
91.2% |
91.6% |
83.4% |
90.6% |
Gap between PP and their non-PP peers |
+4.4% |
+5.0% |
+1.8% |
+3.5% |
Foxwood Academy Performance Data 2021-2022
Our 2021-2022 Key Stage End Point (KSEP) data shows that there is a new emerging gap in attainment between our Pupil Premium and Non-Pupil Premium and LAC and Non-LAC cohorts in 12/16 subjects across our Core, Non-Core or PfA curriculum.
Core Subjects – Pupils who met or are on track to meet their KSEPs
Group |
Number of Students |
English Reading |
English Writing |
English S&L |
Maths Number |
Maths G&M |
Met/On Track |
Met/On Track |
Met/On Track |
Met/On Track |
Met/On Track |
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Non-LAC |
100 91.74% |
82.0% |
74.0% |
79.0% |
68.0% |
71.0% |
LAC |
9 8.26% |
55.6% |
66.7% |
66.7% |
55.6% |
55.6% |
Non-Pupil Premium |
67 61.47% |
83.6% |
74.6% |
80.6% |
67.2% |
70.2% |
Pupil Premium |
42 38.53% |
71.4% |
69.1% |
71.4% |
64.3% |
66.7% |
Whole Cohort |
109 |
79.8% |
73.4% |
78.0% |
67.0% |
69.7% |
Non-Core– Pupils who met or are on track to meet their KSEPs
Group |
Number of Students |
Art |
Computing |
Creative |
e-Safety |
PE |
PSD |
Science |
|
|
Met/On Track |
Met/On Track |
Met/On Track |
Met/On Track |
Met/On Track |
Met/On Track |
Not on Track |
Non-LAC |
100 91.74% |
69.0% |
79.0% |
65.0% |
55.0% |
74.0% |
67.0% |
58.0% |
LAC |
9 8.26% |
55.6% |
66.7% |
66.7% |
55.6% |
55.6% |
44.4% |
55.6% |
Non-Pupil Premium |
67 61.47% |
65.7% |
77.6% |
71.6% |
53.7% |
76.1% |
65.7% |
53.7% |
Pupil Premium |
42 38.53% |
69.1% |
76.2% |
52.4% |
57.1% |
64.3% |
61.9% |
61.9% |
Whole Cohort |
109 |
67.9% |
78.0% |
65.1% |
55.1% |
72.5% |
65.1% |
57.8% |
Preparing for Adulthood (PfA) – Pupils who met or are on track to meet their KSEPs
Group |
Number of Students |
PfA-Employment |
PfA-Independence |
PfA-Community |
PfA-Health |
|
|
Met/On Track |
Met/On Track |
Met/On Track |
Met/On Track |
Non-LAC |
100 91.74% |
75.0% |
53.0% |
68.0% |
74.0% |
LAC |
9 8.26% |
44.4% |
55.6% |
44.4% |
66.7% |
Non-Pupil Premium |
67 61.47% |
73.1% |
53.7% |
61.2% |
73.1% |
Pupil Premium |
42 38.53% |
69.1% |
50.0% |
71.4% |
71.4% |
Whole Cohort |
109 |
72.5% |
53.2% |
66.1% |
73.4% |
Pupil Premium 2021-2022
The Foxwood Academy allocation of Pupil Premium funding for 2021-2022 was just over £47,000.
All curriculum data collated and analysed in the 2021-2022 academic year is based on the Foxwood Key Stage End Point’s (KSEPs) and the percentage of pupils that either met (Years 2, 6, 9 and 13) or are on track to meet (all other year groups) by the end of the Key Stage.
Our Pupil Premium allocation was used to support the 42 children and young people eligible in 2021-2022 in the following ways:
Priority |
Cost |
Impact |
Curriculum Resourcing Maths |
£1,311 |
64% pupils met or are on track to meet their KSEP’s in Maths Number (2.9% gap with non-PP peers) and 67% in Maths Geometry and Measure (3.5% gap with non-PP peers). |
Curriculum Resourcing Play-based |
£291.59 |
Play skills developed and enhanced through play with peers. 61.9% pupils met or are on track to meet their KSEP’s in PSD (gap with non-PP peers closed by 9.2% (from 13% to 3.8%) over the year. |
Curriculum Resourcing PfA Health |
£80 |
71% pupils met or are on track to meet their KSEP’s in PfA Health (gap with non-PP peers closed by 2.3% (from 4% to 1.7%) over the year. |
Curriculum Resourcing Intervention Tutor |
£10,732 |
1:1 independent travel to and from school for targeted individuals. Core, non-core and Preparing for Adulthood intervention programmes in place and running throughout the year. Our 2021-2022 Key Stage End Point (KSEP) data shows that the gap for 11/17 subjects closed between the Spring and Summer terms for both our PP and FSM cohorts. It closed for 9/17 subjects for our LAC cohort. |
Attendance including Attendance Officer |
£14,476
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Gap in Attendance for our Pupil Premium peers has reduced by 0.9% (from 4.4% to 3.5%). Increased parental attendance at a range of Academy meetings, for example student’s medicals and review meetings. Support to transport students home safely if they become ill during the day. Appropriate full training in Safeguarding, EHAF and Child protection. Culture of our ‘Go out and get them in’ for key pupils. |
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Attendance Staffing Attendance Officer |
Support to transport students home safely if they become ill during the day. |
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Mental Health Staffing Family Liaison Officer |
Support for parents and families in place where relationships between home and school are now strong. Appropriate full training in Safeguarding, EHAF and Child protection. Mental Health champion off timetable to focus on pupil and staff well-being throughout the year. |
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Intervention Strategy Staffing Phase Leaders |
£12,414 |
Barriers identified and intervention in place for individual students across all 3 phases to ensure successful outcomes in Attendance, Behaviour and Learning. |
Specialist Staff OT/SaLT |
£4,080 |
Programmes in place and being delivered by Foxwood support staff for individual pupils. |
Residential Experience/Educational Visits |
£545 |
3 pupils attended Hagg Farm for 3 days in the summer term 2022. Relationships between pupils and pupils and pupils and staff developed and strengthened in many cases. Residential was needed more than ever due to the pandemic and the positive impact on all pupils was evident in some way. Educational visits, for example clip & climb, Escape and the Theatre enjoyed. |
Care Needs |
£86.40 |
Increased independence in accessing and using additional care equipment. |
Curriculum Resourcing Sensory |
£241.55 |
Improved levels of concentration and engagement. Access to appropriate sensory curriculum, sensory stories and sensory play opportunities increased. |
Curriculum Resourcing Sensory |
£90 |
Improved levels of concentration and engagement. Access to appropriate sensory curriculum, sensory stories and sensory play opportunities increased. |
After School Clubs |
£943.30 |
37% of the PP cohort attended at least one club a week over the academic year compared to 28% for the non-PP cohort. |
Positive Behaviour Social Emotional Skills |
£80.15 |
Resources to reduce the number of negative behaviours seen over the 3 academic terms. |
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Peripatetic Music Lessons |
£1,869 |
Pupils enjoy and achieve in music. 5/9 pupils hit 100% of their specific music targets with the remaining 4/5 meeting 83%. |
Uniform |
£1,493.90 |
Individuals feel part of the Academy and ‘fit-in’ with their peer group, the majority of whom wear uniform. Increased confidence and self-esteem. Sense of belonging for individuals within the Academy. Pupils have sense of pride in their appearance. Pupils are happy and confident. |
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£48,492 |