Qualification for Pupil Premium
Pupil Premium is additional funding given by the Government to schools in England to raise the attainment of specific groups of children that fall into the following categories:
- Pupils who have been entitled to Free School Meals at any point over the last 6 years, due to qualifying benefits. Please visit the Wiltshire Council Free School Meals page for more information.
- Pupils who have had a parent in the armed services at any point over the last 6 years
- Pupils that are, or have been, looked after by the local authority or are adopted
Please contact the school if you feel that you may qualify for Pupil Premium.
Pupil Premium allocation for 2020/21
Pupil Premium allocation of £19,655, this consists of:
£10,760 for pupils entitled to Free School Meals (8 children)
£1,860 for service pupils (6 children)
£7,035 for children adopted from care (3 children)
Plan for spending Pupil Premium in 2020/21
We use the EEF’s Teaching and Learning Toolkit to ensure that what we do has the most impact possible, based on current educational research.
The months of progress each intervention is able to make has been added within parenthesis.
At our school we provide:
Arts participation for all pupils (+2 months)
Behaviour interventions for pupils in need with an ELSA (+3 months)
Collaborative learning for all pupils with our PE teacher and with our Playpods (+ 5 months)
Feedback for Y5/6 PP children with 1 to 1 teacher weekly sessions (+8 months)
Homework for all pupils (+ 2 months)
Individualised instruction for all children in need with TAs e.g. pre-teaching (+3 months)
Learning styles for all pupils (+2 months)
Mastery learning for all pupils (+5 months)
One to one tuition for Y5/6 PP children with 1 to 1 teacher weekly sessions (+5 months)
Oral language interventions for all pupils (+5 months)
Outdoor adventure learning for all pupils Y4-6 by subsidising residential trips for children in receipt of FSM (+4 months)
Parental engagement for all parents by hosting regular parent workshops in, for example, phonics, listening to children read and maths (+3 months)
Phonics for all children in YR-2 and additional sessions for those children in need (+4 months)
Reading comprehension strategies for all pupils (+6 months)
Small group tuition for Year 6 and children in need by teachers and TAs (+4 months)
Social and emotional learning for children with needs with two ELSAs (+4 months)
Sports participation for all pupils with our full time PE teacher (+ 2 months)
Teaching Assistants for all pupils in every class (+1 month)
Within class attainment grouping for children Y1-6 (+ 3 months)
Pupil Premium allocation for 2019/20
Pupil Premium allocation of £22,580, which consisted of:
£11,880 for pupils entitled to Free School Meals
£1500 for service pupils
£9,200 for children adopted from care
How the funding made a difference to the attainment of children attracting Pupil Premium funding:
| Current attainment (2019 most recent data due to Covid 19) | ||
| Pupils eligible for PP
(Ramsbury School) |
Pupils not eligible for PP (national) average) | |
| % achieving expected standard or above in reading, writing & maths | 2/3 children (Y6 July 2019) 67% | 65% |
| % making expected progress in reading (as measured in the school) | 9/15 children (Y1-6 Sept 2019) 60% | |
| % making expected progress in writing (as measured in the school) | 8/15 children (Y1-6 Sept 2019) 53% | |
| % making expected progress in mathematics (as measured in the school) | 10/15 children (Y1-6 Sept 2019) 67% | |
Pupil Premium allocation for 2018/19
Pupil Premium allocation of £25,860, which consisted of:
- £17,160 for pupils entitled to Free School Meals
- £1,800 for service pupils
- £6,900 for children adopted from care
How the funding made a difference to the attainment of children attracting Pupil Premium funding:
EYFS 2019
| EYFS | % of children passing Good Level of Development |
| Children attracting Pupil Premium funding
(1 child) |
0% |
| Year R at Ramsbury Primary School
(29 children) |
75%
|
| Year R nationally (2018) | 71.5% |
Year 1 Phonics 2019
| Year 1 Phonics | % of children passing the Phonics Screening check |
| Children attracting Pupil Premium funding
(3 children) |
100%
|
| Year 1 at Ramsbury Primary School
(30 children) |
97% |
| Year 1 nationally (2019) | 82% |
Year 2 SATs 2019
| Year 2 SATs | Expected Standard in Writing | Expected Standard in Reading | Expected Standard in Maths |
| Children attracting Pupil Premium funding
(2 children) |
50% | 50% | 50% |
| Year 2 at Ramsbury Primary School
(30 children) |
70% | 90% | 86.7% |
| Year 2 nationally (2019) | 69.3% | 75% | 75.7% |
Year 6 SATs 2019
| Year 6 SATs | Expected Standard in Writing | Expected Standard in Reading | Expected Standard in Maths | Expected Standard in Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar |
| Children attracting Pupil Premium funding
(3 children) |
100% | 66.7% | 100% | 100% |
| Year 6 at Ramsbury Primary School
(30 children) |
93.3% | 90% | 96.7% | 100% |
| Year 6 nationally (2019) | 78.4% | 73.1% | 78.6% | 77.9% |