Pupil Premium and Recovery Premium

At Two Gates Primary School, we are committed to providing excellent learning opportunities and experiences for all our children. This is reflected in our school motto: ‘Love Children, love Learning’.  We continually strive to make our school a place where all children are valued and safe, feel good about themselves and each other, enjoy life to the full, are given every opportunity to achieve their potential and are encouraged to contribute positively to their school and wider community.

What is Pupil Premium?

Publicly-funded schools in England get extra funding from the government to help them improve the attainment of their disadvantaged pupil –this is called Pupil Premium.

Evidence shows that children from disadvantaged backgrounds:

• generally face extra challenges in reaching their potential at school
• often do not perform as well as their peers

The pupil premium grant is designed to allow schools to help disadvantaged pupils by improving their progress and the exam results they achieve.

Evidence suggests that pupil premium spending is most effective when schools use a tiered approach, targeting spending across the following 3 areas below but focusing on teaching quality – investing in learning and development for teachers.

High Quality Teaching

We have an annual training and professional development plan based on an analysis of need for all our staff to improve the impact of teaching and learning for pupils. 

Targeted Academic support

We have analysed the main barriers to pupils succeeding at school and have targeted some of our pupil premium towards mitigating these issues.

Wider strategies supporting readiness to learn

We allocate some of our funding towards non-academic use to increase pupils’ confidence and resilience, encourage pupils to be more aspirational and also to benefit non-eligible pupils.

Outcomes, pupil progress and attainment are tracked and monitored closely to ensure impact in a variety of ways such as: data analysis, learning walks, pupil discussions, discussions with parents, case studies, observations, book looks and any other specific ways as determined by the initiative.

We also have an annual external pupil premium review from the ATLP to further challenge and support school leadership. All this enables school leaders to evaluate the effectiveness of provision and adapt or enhance as necessary.

Please click the link below to see how we intend to make best use of our allocation over the next two years. We know that the recent Pandemic and disruption to education has had a significant impact on disadvantaged pupils. We are committed to addressing this through our daily work.

Recovery Premium (formerly referred to as catch-up funding)

In June 2020 the government announced £1 billion of funding to support children and young people to catch up on missed learning caused by coronavirus (COVID19). This is especially important for the most vulnerable pupils and pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds who we know have been most affected. 

The ATLP strategy for effective use of catch up funding was to employ catch-up tutors centrally and assign them each to a specific school. Our catch-up tutor has been employed since March 2021, funded by the 20-21 Catch-up Funding and 21-22 Recovery Premium.

Please click the link below to see our Recovery Premium Strategy Statement and evaluation for the academic year 2021-2022.