Pupil Premium (2025-2028 strategy)

Pupil Premium funding helps us support disadvantaged pupils so every child can achieve their full potential. Our three-year strategy focuses on removing barriers to learning and promoting equity through high-quality teaching, targeted support, and wider opportunities.

Our priorities (2025-2028) include:

• Vocabulary and language development in EYFS and KS1.
• Reading and phonics mastery for early literacy.
• Emotional readiness and resilience for learning.
• Foundational knowledge in English and maths.
• Mathematical fluency and reasoning skills.
• Secure handwriting, spelling, and writing stamina.
• Improving attendance for disadvantaged pupils.

We use a tiered approach recommended by the Education Endowment Foundation:

1. Teaching – Quality First Teaching and staff training.
2. Targeted Support – Phonics, maths, speech and language, and pastoral interventions.
3. Wider Strategies – Thrive support, enrichment activities, and family engagement.

Our goal by 2028 is for disadvantaged pupils to meet national standards in reading, writing, and maths, attend regularly, and develop confidence and resilience. The strategy is reviewed annually, and governors monitor impact closely.

pp strategy 2025 2028.pdf

 

 

 

Pupil Premium (2022-2025 strategy)

Here's a summary of Marwood School's Pupil Premium Strategy for 2024-25:

School Overview

• Number of pupils: 88
• Proportion of pupil premium eligible pupils: 4.5%
• Total budget: £8,864

Statement of Intent

• Core Values: Learning to Learn, Respectful Consideration, Ambitious Progress.
• Focus Areas:
  • Reading: Enhance reading skills through targeted interventions.
  • Emotional Preparedness: Equip pupils with resilience and social skills.
  • Ambitious Progress: Provide academic support and enrichment opportunities.

Challenges

1. Reading: Application of phonics.
2. Reading: Transition from phonics to fluency.
3. Emotional Preparedness: Ensuring pupils are ready to learn.

Intended Outcomes

• Reading: Close the gap with targeted daily support.
• Emotional Preparedness: Positive attitudes to learning through the Thrive programme.

Strategies and Actions

Teaching

• Budget: £3,000
• Focus:
  • Quality First Teaching across the curriculum.
  • Regular CPD meetings to deepen pedagogical understanding.
  • Embedding good attendance practices.

Targeted Academic Support

• Budget: £2,000
• Focus:
  • High-quality English and maths interventions.
  • Targeted phonics interventions using the Essential Letters and Sounds scheme.
  • Reading and comprehension interventions for Y1-Y5 and tutoring for Y6.
  • Maths interventions for Y5.
  • Speech and language support.

Wider Strategies

• Budget: £3,864
• Focus:
  • Pastoral support through the Thrive programme.
  • Enrichment opportunities, including extracurricular activities and residential visits.
  • Improving attendance through new procedures and professional support.

Stakeholder Responsibilities

• Governors: Monitor and hold leaders accountable for progress and attendance.
• Leadership: Oversee implementation and impact of strategies.
• Teachers: Deliver high-quality teaching and interventions.
• Support Staff: Provide targeted support and follow up on attendance.

Review and Evaluation

• Impact Review: Regular monitoring and evaluation of the strategy's effectiveness.
• Additional Activities: Embedding effective feedback practices and offering a wider range of extracurricular activities.

This strategy aims to ensure that disadvantaged pupils at Marwood School receive the support they need to achieve their full potential, both academically and personally.

 

Pupil Premium Strategy 2024-25

pp strategy 2024 25.pdf

 

Review of 2024-25 Pupil Premium Strategy (updated in September 2025)

review of pp strategy 2024 25.pdf

 

 

Pupil Premium Strategy 2023-24

Pupil Premium Strategy Statement Marwood School