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Pitcheroak School Use of the Pupil Premium in 2014/15 Pupil Premium allocation, use and impact on attainment Pupil Premium Grant expenditure: £51,200 Report to parents/carers 2014/15 Number of pupils and pupil premium grant (PPG) received 2014/15 Total number of pupils on roll based on January ’14 census 134 Total number of pupils eligible for PPG 46 Total number of pupils eligible for PPG who are LAC 12 £1300 per Primary Child (25 children) £935 per Secondary Child Amount of PPG received per pupil (20 Children) £300 per Service Child (1 Child) Total amount of PPG received including LAC funding £75,672.78 Nature of support 2014/15 Interventions Reasons Cost Impact Midday supervisor to support student with feeding difficulties Medical reasons linked to student £1,039.48 Student has now become more experiencing food rejection – learnt independent and is included in main behaviour – LTS employed specifically school meal times with no more to develop confidence and encourage episodes of food rejection student to feed independently Extended schools coordinator salary costs To support students after school to £9,494.29 develop social interaction Students able to access school activities safely leading to students heightened levels of motivation, self-esteem, social skills and communication skills. Respite for carers/parents after school for 4 nights a week. Students build friendships and independence. Raised levels of speaking and listening skills. Changing Table Staff training for complex needs To support the changing needs of a £721.25 Student has become increasingly more student with mobility difficulties to confident and independent when support self-help skills changing. Working with CN students; Anxiety £2,196.00 Students benefit from gaining more and Autism; Making sense of sensory specialist staff support specifically for learning; TEACCH; Stupendous stories students with complex needs and ASD. for students with ASD; Intensive Attachment disorder training to help Interaction; Multi-sensory ideas, students to express their feelings and recipes and resources; Attachment work through them. theory to Practice iPad purchase to support the curriculum Students in KS2 often require frequent £1,088 The impact of this technology has been a behaviour support/ interventions. The reduction of negative behaviours – as purchase of iPads was chosen as they they have been used for re-direction/ as are user friendly and fairly robust. a motivator as a reward strategy and as a calming technique. There has also been an improvement in ICT skills (animation, media, switches, making choices.) Ingredients for cooking from Early Years to Key Stage 5 Pupil Premium students are able to £1,950 fully participate in FT lessons Students are cooking regularly, therefore gaining skills and confidence in FT. (preparing and tasting food) without the stigma attached to not providing the money for ingredients. Educational psychologist fees Individual students have benefitted £1,500 Decrease in negative behaviours as a from input from specialist educational consequence of interventions. SLEUTH psychologists to advise staff on reports have indicated that PP students strategies for behaviour management. do not feature as frequently as other students in terms of negative incidents. Music Therapist fees Developing communication, attention, £5,103 Students are able to express themselves motivation, self-expression and self- in a safe and secure environment. regulation of behaviour Decrease in behavioural incidents for certain students – evidence base SLEUTH Drama Therapist fees 1:1 and group support for emotional development £5,122.50 Students able to express their emotions and find ways of dealing with them. Students beginning to use learnt strategies to help in challenging situations. Working in small groups has helped individuals to recognise their own emotions/ actions impact on others. Evidence of impact reduced levels of disruption in certain classes. Impartial Advice and Guidance Advisor Salary Costs The employment of the IAG adviser to £4,038.84 Students from year 9 upwards have been provide SEND students with specialist exposed to advice and support from a advice about destinations and careers specialist of SEND resulting in greater awareness of what career paths are available. Another direct benefit has been to offer support and direction for families who may not be familiar with the latest choices and services available to them. Educational Visits and residentials Higher staffing ratio £284.40 Payment for trips Students were able to access more trips due to higher ratio of staff; students were able to access different environments thereby enhancing their learning and supporting progress. Specialist Music To focus on speech, language and £980.00 Students have improved in their PSED as communication, as well as PSED and they have developed their turn taking Expressive Arts and Design. and listening skills as well as trying to promote eye contact with the more complex needs. During the sessions, all children have been encouraged to interact and vocalise. Curriculum focus of PPG spending 2014/15 Whole school priority in line with the school development and improvement plan is “To raise pupils achievements and standards in all subjects” The focus in 2014/15 has been to use additional services, therapists, consultants and specialists to support access to the curriculum and behaviour for learning. Measuring the impact of PPG spending 2014/15 Individual personalised monitoring and tracking grids of individual PPG pupils is available from the school business manager on request.