Pupil Premium Strategy

PUPIL PREMIUM STRATEGY 

At McKee College House 

Pupil premium strategy plan 

Statement of intent 

All members of staff, governors and teaching assistants accept responsibility for ‘socially disadvantaged’ pupils and are committed to meeting their pastoral, social and academic needs within the school environment. McKee College House is committed to ‘Narrowing the Gap’ between vulnerable pupils and the pupil premium forms a vital part of that process. The Management Committee reserve the right to allocate the pupil premium funding to support any pupils or groups of pupils the school has legitimately identified as being socially disadvantaged. 

Objectives will be met through 

• Facilitating pupils’ access to education 
• Facilitating pupils’ access to the curriculum 
• Alternative support and intervention within the school. 

Key Principles of the Strategy 

• Identifying barriers to engagement in learning eg attendance, unmet learning needs, mental health, trauma through assessment, developing relationships and observation. 
• Evidence based interventions to address identified needs. 
• Monitoring and evaluation of strategies employed. 

Challenges 

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

Challenge number	Detail of challenge
1	Historic poor attendance and punctuality at their last school
2	Periods of exclusion from school creating gaps in learning
3	Un assessed learning needs which contribute to non engagement and low level disruptive behaviours
4	Low expectations of themselves, low self esteem and lack of aspiration.
5	School based anxiety contributing to low attendance, mental health and poor well-being.
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Intended outcomes  

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

Intended outcome	Success criteria
Assessing learning needs	Full assessment of all students to identify unmet learning need.
Meeting learning needs	Personal Learning Plan for every student.  Additional resources for supporting learning in class and 1:1.
Filling gaps in their education	Initiatives for attendance, attainment and effort.  Revision guides and additional lessons.  Identify prior learning and teach to the gaps using our curriculum maps.
Developing their potential	Mental Health awareness and supportive interventions.  Therapeutic interventions.  Counselling services for students and family  Key worker for every student with close home links.
Preparing them for the future	Motivational and inspirational experiences.  A curriculum offer which meets the needs of students and prepares them for their future.  A CEIAG programme that prepares them for their next steps in education, apprenticeship or work.

The allocation for PPG funding for this year is as detailed below.  It is worth noting that because of the way in which funding is allocated and the transient nature of our students funding does not always match the actual number of PPG students in the school.  However as a school we will always strive to meet the needs of our PPG students regardless of the actual funding given. 

Financial Funding for PPG 

PPG Funding received as at 1 Apr 2024 

Pupil premium strategy statement 

This statement details our school’s use of pupil premium (and recovery premium for the 2024 to 2025 academic year) funding to help improve the attainment of our disadvantaged pupils.  

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.  

PPG Statement 2024-25 – McKee PPG Strategy Statement 2024-25