Pupil premium strategy statement 2022 - 2024

This statement details our school’s use of pupil premium (and recovery premium for the 2022 to 2023 academic year) funding to help improve the attainment of our disadvantaged students. 

It outlines our pupil premium strategy, how we intend to spend the funding in this academic year and the effect that last year’s spending of pupil premium had within our school. 

School overview

Detail	Data
School Name	Putteridge High School
Number of students in school	1201
Proportions (%) of pupil premium eligible students	22%
Academic year/years that our current pupil premium strategy plan covers	2022/23-2024/25
Date this statement was published	October 2024
Date of which it will be reviewed	September 2025
Statement authorised by	David Graham (Headteacher)
Pupil premium lead	Rohan Cruise (Assistant Headteacher)
Governor / Trustee lead	Bill Pollard (Chair of Governors)

Funding overview

Detail	Amount
Pupil premium funding allocation this academic year	£282,000
Recovery premium funding allocation this academic year	£0.00
Pupil premium funding carried forward from previous years (enter £0 if not applicable)	£0.00
Total budget for this academic year	£282,000

Part A: Pupil premium strategy plan

Statement of intent

At Putteridge, we believe every student is entitled to a First Class education.  Equal opportunity does not mean equal provision and we provide different levels of support so that every disadvantaged student can access the same curriculum and life opportunities; achieve their potential and be ready to enter the world beyond school as a well-prepared citizen, ready to make their contribution to the global society.  Each year we publish a review, showing the impact of the disadvantaged funding.

We acknowledge that disadvantaged students have a wide variety of needs and may access a range, some or none of these, depending on their own individual circumstance.   They may also have other needs, such as, SEND or EAL, which have additional support strategies.  Our staff make every effort to understand these needs and support our students.

Our approach is very much centred on the EEF’s Tiered Approach to Pupil Premium Spending, which is outlined below:

1. Teaching 

Spending on improving teaching might include professional development, training and support for early career teachers, 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 the top priority for Pupil Premium spending. 

2 . Targeted academic support   

Evidence consistently shows the positive impact that targeted academic support can have, including on those who are not making good progress across the spectrum of achievement. Considering how classroom teachers and teaching assistants can provide targeted academic support, including how to link structured one-to-one or small group intervention to classroom teaching, is likely to be a key component of an effective Pupil Premium strategy.

3. Wider strategies 

Wider strategies relate to the most significant non-academic barriers to success in school, including attendance, behaviour and social and emotional support. While many barriers 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.

Further information can be found by following this link: https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/public/files/Publications/Pupil_Premium_Guidance_iPDF.pdf 

Implementation

To ensure the staffing body works effectively together to meet the needs of our disadvantaged students, these actions are implemented across the school.

Challenges

This details the key challenges to achievement that we have identified among our disadvantaged students.

Intended outcomes

This explains the outcomes we are aiming for by the end of our current three year strategy plan, and how we will measure whether they have been achieved.

Activity in this academic year

This details how we intend to spend our pupil premium this academic year to address the challenges listed above.

Teaching (for example, CPD, recruitment and retention)

Budgeted cost: £200,000

Activity	Evidence that supports this approach	Challenge number(s) addressed
Recruit and develop outstanding practitioners who help all students make progress.	EEF Guidance	5
Effective implementation of an appropriately sequenced and structured curriculum	EEF Guidance	5
Improving literacy and oracy through the whole school approach to the development of critical vocabulary and ambitious reading.	National Literacy Trust	7
Delivery of a professional learning programme that ensures high quality pedagogy	EEF Guidance	4

 

Targeted academic support (for example, tutoring, one-to-one support structured interventions) 

Budgeted cost: £50,000

Activity	Evidence that supports this approach	Challenge number(s) addressed
Withdrawal groups including low literacy, numeracy & writing.	National Literacy Trust	7
Purchasing of Chromebooks for those students who do not have a device.	Reform Research	1
Purchasing of other equipment and resources aimed at improving progress.	EEF Guidance	1
Effective delivery and tracking of the use of apps and software that helps boost student progress by disadvantaged students.	Reform Research	1 & 2

 

Wider strategies (for example, related to attendance, behaviour, wellbeing)

Budgeted cost: £32,000

Activity	Evidence that supports this approach	Challenge number(s) addressed
Developing strong parent/carer links through targeted pastoral activities.	EEF Guidance	6
Improving and celebrating positive attitudes to learning through rewards & extra-curricular enrichment.	EEF Guidance	3 & 6
Intervening early where attendance issues are likely/starting to develop and work closely with parents/carers and other agencies to ensure barriers are removed.	NFER Research Paper	3

 

Total budgeted cost: £282,000

The next strategy review will be in December 2025.

Part B: Review of outcomes in the previous academic year

Pupil premium strategy outcomes

This details the impact that our pupil premium activity had on student results in the 2023 to 2024 academic year:

*(DA = disadvantaged)

Total number of students in Year 11: 241

Total number of DA students: 54  (22%)

Basics (9-7 in E&M): DA 11.1%, Non DA 17.6% (Gap -6.5%)

Basics (9-5 in E&M): DA 42.6%, Non DA 56.1% (Gap -13.5%). 

2024 9-5 in E&M SISRA Analytics data (DA): 29.2% Non DA 52.2% (Gap -23%) 

Ave A8 Grade: DA 4.21, Non DA 5.01 (Gap -0.80) 

Total A8: DA 42.1%, Non DA 50.1% (Gap -8%)

P8: DA -0.08, Non DA +0.33 (Gap -0.42). 2024

P8 2024 SISRA Analytics data (DA): -0.43 Non DA 0.18 (Gap -0.61)

2023/24 Summary

Despite the continuing long lasting negative effect caused by Covid on the progress of our disadvantaged students the gap has been further reduced from previous years.  

Ebacc entries for disadvantaged pupils have been maintained at 33.3%. We expect this figure to continue to increase over the next few years.

Attendance as a whole school for disadvantaged students remains lower than 2% between 2023 - 2024. 

We have compared our 9-5 basics (English and maths) and Progress 8 figures to 2022 data to help gauge the performance of our disadvantaged students nationally.

Pupil premium strategy outcomes

This details the impact that our pupil premium activity had on students in the 2023 to 2024 academic year. 

Please See Appendix A Pupil Premium Final Review 2023 – 2024 for a comprehensive review of the impact of our previous PP strategy.

 

2023 24 phs pp review docx.pdf