Pupil Premium
COVID Catch-up funding statement
What is it?
This is a premium paid to the school for academic year 2020-21. It is designed to support students in accessing the curriculum during the current pandemic and to ensure that all students make the best progress possible.
How much funding has been allocated?
The school has been allocated a total of £75,360 for this academic year.
How do we plan to spend the money?
We have taken an evidence based approach to identify areas which are likely to have the greatest impact in terms of providing high quality teaching across a broad and balanced curriculum. We used guidance from the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) to help inform our planning.
(link to EEF planning document)
Based on this plan, we have allocated the funding as per the table below:
Resources to support curriculum delivery, both whole school and subject specific e.g. GCSEPod, Nearpod, Digital Theatre+ etc. |
£15000 |
Purchase cameras, microphones and laptops to enable remote teaching. |
£6000 |
Use GL assessment testing with new intake Y7 to help establish a baseline and provide appropriate targets. |
£2000 |
Internal team recruited to provide support and training in the use of Google Classroom and associated packages. Make time and facilities available for training to take place successfully (e.g. online safety training for all) |
£5000 |
Development of virtual communications with key stakeholders (e.g. virtual parents evening system). Time for pastoral teams to maintain communication home. |
£3300 |
Provide lunchtime intervention for the core subjects in Year 11 |
£3750 |
Extend Accelerated reader scheme into Year 9 to make up for missed time in current Y8. |
£1500 |
Improve the school infrastructure to enable the effective use of new technologies (e.g. improve WiFi access in targeted parts of the site, improve classroom projection/whiteboard facilities where it is a barrier to learning) |
£9000 |
Use of NTP program to provide targeted tutoring, starting with the most vulnerable and disadvantaged students. |
£30060 |
How will we assess the impact of these strategies?
We will monitor pupil progress in comparison to their prior performance on an individual and sub-group basis, putting the interventions in place on a needs assessment from feedback and tracking.
We will seek further feedback from key stakeholders such as the pupils, teachers and parents in assessing the impact of the provision.
Pupil Premium Strategy Statement October 2020.
School Overview
Metric |
Data |
School name |
The Mosslands School |
Pupils in school |
1,138 (1,100) |
Proportion of disadvantaged pupils |
(37%) |
Pupil premium allocation this academic year |
£402,225 (£377,05600 |
Academic year or years covered by statement |
2019 - 2022 |
Publish date |
October 2020 |
Review date |
October 2021 |
Statement authorised by |
Mr A Whiteley |
Pupil premium lead |
Mr G Evans |
Governor lead |
Mr P Grady |
Disadvantaged pupil performance overview for last academic year (2019/2020)
Progress 8 |
(-1.33) |
Ebacc entry |
17% (17.6%) |
Attainment 8 |
40.15%(32.17) |
Percentage of Grade 5+ in English and Maths |
21.4%(14.7) |
Percentage of Grade 4+ in English and Maths |
46.4%(36.8) |
Strategy aims for disadvantaged pupils
Aim |
Target |
Target date |
Progress 8 |
To close the gap in progress 8 scores compared to disadvantaged students nationally |
Summer 2021 |
Attainment 8 |
To close the gap in attainment 8 scores compared to disadvantaged students nationally |
Summer2021 |
Percentage of Grade 5+ in English and maths |
Achieve national average English and Maths 5+ scores |
Summer 2021 |
Percentage of Grade 4+ in English and maths |
Achieve national average English and Maths 4+ scores |
Summer 2021 |
Other |
Improve attendance 93.2% – reduce the number of students who are disadvantaged PA (101) |
Summer 2021 |
Teaching priorities for current academic year
Measure |
Activity |
Priority 1 Quality First Teaching
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Priority 2 Continuing Professional Development |
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Barriers to learning these priorities address |
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Projected spending |
(£53,100) Staffing |
Targeted academic support for current academic year
Measure |
Activity |
Priority 1 Year 11 Intervention |
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Priority 2 Years 7-10 Catch-up |
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Priority 3 Access Provision |
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Barriers to learning these priorities address |
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Projected spending |
(£51,492) staffing (£85,975) non-staffing |
Wider strategies for current academic year
Measure |
Activity |
Priority 1 Attendance |
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Priority 2 Behaviour |
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Priority 3 Welfare |
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Barriers to learning these priorities address |
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Projected spending |
(£110,000) staffing (£59,500) non-staffing |
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 being provided by senior leaders |
Targeted support |
Ensuring that targeted pupils engage in the intervention process. |
Increasing academic support through additional sessions. Pupil App. |
Wider strategies |
Engaging the families facing most challenges. Improving pupil engagement and minimising disruptive behaviours. |
Working closely with the LA and other local schools on cross-school outreach programme. Pastoral CPD and QA. On-call system |