Category

Strategy 2018-19

 2019-2020
Actual Spent

 Impact

2020-2021 Expected Spend

Rationale

Motivation

& Aspiration

Coaching for Performance CPD for staff

3,500

Staff that are trained how to coach and have meaningful conversations are invaluable to us in Harris Greenwich. Senior Leaders regularly speak with students and use their coaching skills to re-set, deescalate and motivate.

3,600

Continue having meaningful conversations with students.

Talking Teens CPD

4, 990

The aim of the course is to empower parents to enable them to have more positive and healthy conversations with their teen. The hope is then this will spill out into their school life.

0

To train staff to run workshops to educate and support parents of teenagers.

Careers advice and guidance

13, 587

In order to break a cycle of disadvantage, students need goals and a clear path to get there. Our careers spend allows students to figure out what they want to do when they are older which improves their motivation in school.

15,000

Further guidance needed for new year 10/11 pupils.

Uniform Purchases

6, 000

To ensure that our disadvantaged students have the proper uniform for their school day we assist in the purchase of shoes, ties, trousers, shirts and blazers.

2,000

Ongoing need to support pupils with uniform.

Pastoral support

Attendance Officer

26, 449

Our attendance officer allows us to focus our efforts on improving the attendance of some of our most vulnerable students, getting them into school and participating in the school community.

18,000

Ongoing need to support pupils with their attendance.

Counselling Support

18 632

Our counsellor is able to offer emotional support to our most vulnerable students, offering them a regular and reliable space in which to talk about the challenges they face.  

19 000

To continue supporting the psychological needs of our most vulnerable students.

Anger Management

31 908

We use our one anger management team to offer support with students who struggle to regulate their emotions. It allows them to learn coping skills to deal with challenges. 

35 000

To continue working with our pupils in managing their emotions.

CP Team

36 989

Our child protection team provides support for our most vulnerable pupils and helps keep our pupils safe.

38 000

Vital to keep our pupils safe.

Additional EAL support

26 000

In order to ensure those students for whom English is a second language are supported in accessing the curriculum and succeeding in school.

20 000

To continue assisting our EAL pupils access the curriculum.

Dedicated TLR to support with supervised study.

3,522

To provide support for our disadvantaged students in participating in independent revision after school, communicating regularly with families and carers.  

4,000

Continued work with pupils and families in after school revision.

Additional setting in Maths and English

42 937

Strong passes in Maths and English give students a better chance in life, for this reason we add sets to Maths and English to reduce class sizes and lower the teacher to pupil ration, giving some of our low attaining students access to more teacher attention.

98 658

Need to sustain high number of pupils achieving a ‘strong pass’ at GCSE.

Academic Support

Online tutoring for Science

3 440

Tassomai is a way of encouraging low attaining pupils to take steps to improve their knowledge in Science.

3 500

Ongoing support in Science.

Teacher’s Salary

75 853

In order to support some of our most vulnerable pupils in school, particularly in KS4, we have a senior teacher and lead practitioner leading on pupil premium initiatives.

77 000

Continued leadership of initiatives to support vulnerable pupils.

Word’s First

10 250

To support our disadvantaged students who may have an additional education need. 

13 110

Ongoing need to support SEN pupils.

Online tutoring for Maths

1 440

To encourage students to attempt Maths questions at home and as a tool to make disengaged pupils enjoy Maths more.

1 500

Ongoing support for pupils in Maths.

Additional TA support

44 963

TAs are an invaluable resource in lessons to assist vulnerable students access the curriculum, to motivate students who may become disengaged and to ensure all pupils make progress.

54 952

To assist growing cohort of vulnerable pupils in years 7 and 8.

Alternative Education

Check number with GCS

73 095

To provide alternative education opportunities for those students who are too ill to come to school and for those that require different educational environments in order to succeed in school. 

38 000

To continue to offer alternative educational opportunities for those pupils that need them.

Total Spend

423 555

Pupil Premium funding for 2019 – 2020

423 555

Pupil Premium funding for 2020 – 2021

441 320

2018-2019

2019-2020

Measure

PP

PP
(92 students)

Whole Cohort
(184 Students)

Progress 8

0.18

0.56

0.85

Att 8

4.85

5.2

5.8

EBacc 4+

42.4%

56.5%

64.7%

EBacc 5+

24.7%

33.7%

45.7%

% maths 4+

71.8%

83%

89.1%

% maths 5+

49.5%

65.2%

72.3%

% best English 4+

82.4%

81.5%

89.6%

% best English 5+

62.4%

64.1%

76.4%

Measure

Activity

Priority 1

Prioritising literacy through reading mornings- every student with a book, reading three time a week.

Priority 2

Additional TA support for our disadvantaged students and to extend our support to our year 8 and 9 pupils.

Barriers to learning these priorities address

• Poor literacy and reading skills the impair progress throughout KS3 and into KS4
• TA support for disadvantaged year 7 and 8 pupils.

Projected spending

£180,000

Measure

Activity

Priority 1

Training for Thinking Reading programme

Priority 2

Training for specific needs identified through SEND department identified from lockdown implications.

Barriers to learning these priorities address

• Poor literacy and reading skills the impair progress throughout KS3 and into KS4
• Lack of routines, expectations and learning accumulated during the lockdown making the progress gap for PP/SEND students larger  

Projected spending

£111 000

Priority 1

Improved emotional support for pupils due to lockdown implications.

Priority 2

Team Around Group meetings to ensure targeted and appropriate interventions are put in place with clear communication for major concern students.

Priority 3

Learning Beyond the Classroom days once a term to give students cultural capital experiences via visiting speakers and trips out to galleries/museums.

Barriers to learning these priorities address

• Poor emotional well-being preventing achievement.
• Lack of routines, expectations and learning accumulated during the lockdown making the progress gap for PP/SEND students larger 
• Little opportunity for students to experience places of interest beyond their local area

Projected spending

£105 000