Pupil Premium
Harry Roberts Nursery School - Early Years Pupil Premium- Autumn Term 2018
In April 2015, £50 million was allocated nationally to Early Years Pupil Premium (EYPP) funding for eligible 3-4 year olds. This means schools will be allocated an extra £302 per year for our children who are eligible – looked after children, adopted children, special guardianship children, children subject to a child arrangement order and those children in families where the joint income is below £16,190 per year will be able to claim the EYPP including those families in receipt of:
The main barriers to learning that our pupil premium children face include speech and language difficulties and lack of wider enrichment experiences due to financial difficulties. These barriers can affect their wellbeing. Each half term we review the children who are in receipt of the premium and ensure we are supporting their specific learning needs and offering them challenge with additional experiences.
How we use Pupil Premium funding
Below are details of the provisions, purpose, costing and outcomes for children and families. The head and deputy head teacher review the provision termly and monitor progress, attainment and ensure continued challenge. Staff are expected to be aware of the pupil premium children in their teams and to ensure they are fully accessing experiences. In previous cohorts of children we have found the effect of the expenditure provided for these children has been highly effective due to the nature of the way we allocate the money. Provisions are chosen based on individual need: sometimes children have similar needs but we look at provision on a child by child basis. Our EYPP children work alongside other children with their additional experiences and we are pleased that in the past two years that all children, irrespective of their EYPP status, have made rapid and sustained progress.
Early Years Pupil Premium Funding at Harry Roberts Nursery School
Financial Year EYFS Pupil Premium Amount (£302 per child) Number of PP children
2016/17 £8758 29
2017/18 £7852 26
2018/19 Budgeted for £6644 22
We are using this in a variety of ways to impact on the learning of this group of children: Embedded Forest School provision, growing vegetables and cooking, local trips, for example to local shops and museums, language groups, gardening, looking after birds and other garden creatures, and taking part in yoga sessions, as well as part funding some wonderful enrichment experiences such as visiting footballers, music sessions, theatre visits and regular engagement with Stepney City Farm. We have also bought resources for the language groups (Attention Bucket resources) and made resources for specific interventions such as Colourful Semantics.
In the past we have bought additional speech therapy support (reduced April 2018), had a weekly music teacher (stopped April 2018), went swimming and provided theatre experiences. As we can no longer subsidise the pupil premium in the same way, these have stopped or been reduced.
However because the speech therapist supported and trained the staff, the good practice in this area will continue.
We also used some of the money to provide CPD (Continued Professional Development) such as the THAMES (Tower Hamlets Music Education Service) courses on Dance, Music and Art, in order for staff to develop their expertise and lead on this aspect of our work, embedding it in our practice.
Impact and Outcomes
Year on year, our leaver's data demonstrated children in receipt of EYPP funding make rapid and sustained progress. Our leaver's data for July 2018 showed that children in receipt of EYPP made similar levels of progress as their non-EYPP peers.
Pupil Premium Case Study
Click on the link below to see a Case Study by Judith Stevens
Pupil premium Case study Judith Stevens
In April 2015, £50 million was allocated nationally to Early Years Pupil Premium (EYPP) funding for eligible 3-4 year olds. This means schools will be allocated an extra £302 per year for our children who are eligible – looked after children, adopted children, special guardianship children, children subject to a child arrangement order and those children in families where the joint income is below £16,190 per year will be able to claim the EYPP including those families in receipt of:
- Income Support
- Income-based Jobseekers Allowance.
- Income-related Employment and Support Allowance.
- Support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.
- Guaranteed element of State Pension Credit.
- Child Tax Credit.
- Working Tax Credit.
The main barriers to learning that our pupil premium children face include speech and language difficulties and lack of wider enrichment experiences due to financial difficulties. These barriers can affect their wellbeing. Each half term we review the children who are in receipt of the premium and ensure we are supporting their specific learning needs and offering them challenge with additional experiences.
How we use Pupil Premium funding
Below are details of the provisions, purpose, costing and outcomes for children and families. The head and deputy head teacher review the provision termly and monitor progress, attainment and ensure continued challenge. Staff are expected to be aware of the pupil premium children in their teams and to ensure they are fully accessing experiences. In previous cohorts of children we have found the effect of the expenditure provided for these children has been highly effective due to the nature of the way we allocate the money. Provisions are chosen based on individual need: sometimes children have similar needs but we look at provision on a child by child basis. Our EYPP children work alongside other children with their additional experiences and we are pleased that in the past two years that all children, irrespective of their EYPP status, have made rapid and sustained progress.
Early Years Pupil Premium Funding at Harry Roberts Nursery School
Financial Year EYFS Pupil Premium Amount (£302 per child) Number of PP children
2016/17 £8758 29
2017/18 £7852 26
2018/19 Budgeted for £6644 22
We are using this in a variety of ways to impact on the learning of this group of children: Embedded Forest School provision, growing vegetables and cooking, local trips, for example to local shops and museums, language groups, gardening, looking after birds and other garden creatures, and taking part in yoga sessions, as well as part funding some wonderful enrichment experiences such as visiting footballers, music sessions, theatre visits and regular engagement with Stepney City Farm. We have also bought resources for the language groups (Attention Bucket resources) and made resources for specific interventions such as Colourful Semantics.
In the past we have bought additional speech therapy support (reduced April 2018), had a weekly music teacher (stopped April 2018), went swimming and provided theatre experiences. As we can no longer subsidise the pupil premium in the same way, these have stopped or been reduced.
However because the speech therapist supported and trained the staff, the good practice in this area will continue.
We also used some of the money to provide CPD (Continued Professional Development) such as the THAMES (Tower Hamlets Music Education Service) courses on Dance, Music and Art, in order for staff to develop their expertise and lead on this aspect of our work, embedding it in our practice.
Impact and Outcomes
Year on year, our leaver's data demonstrated children in receipt of EYPP funding make rapid and sustained progress. Our leaver's data for July 2018 showed that children in receipt of EYPP made similar levels of progress as their non-EYPP peers.
- On entry, 84.2% of EYPP children entered nursery below, and often well below expected areas of development.
- On exit, 60.5 %of EYPP children were at expected or exceeding expected levels of development
- Most EYPP children left at expected levels of development, 30-50 months and many in 40-60 months. Our children did best in the areas of Making Relationships, Self-Confidence and Self-Awareness and health and Self Care.
Pupil Premium Case Study
Click on the link below to see a Case Study by Judith Stevens
Pupil premium Case study Judith Stevens
