Quality of teaching for all Desired outcome Chosen action / approach What is the evidence and rationale for this choice? How will you ensure it is implemented well? Staff lead When will you review Successful, whole school phonics scheme in place which will strengthen the teaching of phonics, improve teacher knowledge and eradicate phonic teaching gaps across the school. (£8,000) This is a key area of our School Improvement Plan (Priority 1) but some core highlights from this are: Purchase of Read, Write, Inc materials (£5,000) Training in Read, Write, Inc materials (£3,000) Leadership actions to include: Pupil voice evaluations, workshop for parents and links to performance appraisal. Evaluation and review actions: Staff discussions, questionnaires and data (e.g. phonic test) Events actions: Introduction of Phonic Fridays, Celebration Workshop, Phonics quiz, Spelling Bee and Beat the Teacher. See in-school barrier ‘C’. For some time, we have wanted to improve the school’s approach to phonics teaching but have been prohibited by large costs. Although the school achieves well in phonics, reading, writing and SPAG, we want to be building a stronger foundation. Actions detailed here contribute towards a core area of our School Development Plan. The range of actions taken will therefore be reviewed regularly at Governor School Improvement Committees. Many of the activities will be reviewed and evaluated by the teaching staff and the Senior Leadership Team. HT, Literacy Leader, SLT and Governors Half Termly
Improvement across the school in handwriting and presentation (£250) This is a key area of our School Improvement Plan (Priority 5) but some core highlights from this are: Leadership: Evaluate effectiveness of current handwriting scheme, resourcing implications for SEN (£200), devise new policy, make handwriting and presentation more explicit in monitoring activities. Expectations: Handwriting rewards, marking and feedback tweaks, TA training, handwriting display. Teaching: Use of cursive handwriting, class rewards (£50), modelling Presentation has been raised as a school improvement issue by Julie Kemp (Herts Improvement Partner) and Faye Heming (Ian Hart Ofsted Consultant) in the previous academic year. The school’s own monitoring activities also support this view and that this is currently a barrier to enabling children to reach the age-related ‘exceeding’ level for some children. Staff meeting agendas will reflect improvements to teaching and learning. This will in turn be monitored by the governor school improvement committee. Refinements will also be made to school monitoring systems. HT, Literacy Leader, SLT and Governors Half Termly
Raising Progress and Achievement Cost: £16,126 (2 days funding) 1 to 1 and small group provision for all children with low attainment or slow progress on the Ever 6 Pupil Premium Register Pupil Progress Meetings and data analysis evidence that some pupils require additional support and intervention to meet their expected target. The DHT and Pupil Premium Champion produce a timetable which is shared by all staff with identified children and when they have intervention time. The Headteacher and Pupil Premium Leader review the data termly and all senior leaders (including governors and the SEND Leader) are involved in pupil progress meetings. Pupil Premium Champion Half Termly Improved progress for all pupils Cost: £9772 (1½ day funding) Class teachers to use the ‘Vulnerable Groups’ assessment data sheet produced by the HT and Pupil Premium Champion to identify pupils. Pupils appear on planning to identify appropriate work and group/1:1 support which will enable all children. In house data and pupil progress information shows that some children not on the pupil premium register still require additional support to match the progress of their peers. Half termly data analysis tracking. Children identified are capable of exceeding are placed in group intervention groups with SB, KR or LJL if analysis shows they need additional support to exceed. HT, DHT & Pupil Premium Leader Half Termly Improve attendance figures for children on the Pupil Premium Register (£1,000) Continue to track all areas of children’s attendance (late, absence, etc) including groups (FSM, SEN, etc) Identify barriers – work with families to remove barriers. Continue to use new attendance system implemented in Jan 2017 Introduce ‘Parent2Parent’ worker (£1,000) Governors to introduce fines for persistent absence. Introduce attendance certs. Some of our children accessing pupil premium have had bouts of illness resulting in hospital admission and this contributes to a lower figure. However, correlation generally shows that the pupil progress children who make the least progress are the ones who are the most absent. Around a third of our FSM children in 2016-17 have attendance which isn’t persistent but hovers around The Governors Committees will continue to track attendance figures.The HT and Office Admin will continue to meet on a weekly basis to precisely track actions for persistent or low attendance. Attendance will also be reviewed at half termly pupil progress meetings. The HT and CofG will liaise with the attendance officer where further assistance is required. HT and Governors Half Termly Total budgeted cost £26,898