School Grant Information

Summary of Grant spending Plans for 2022/23

Pupil Deprivation Grant & Education Improvement Grant 2022/23

The school has received a total Pupil Deprivation Grant of £256,450 and Education Improvement Grant of £66,434 for the financial year 2022/23 and will use this funding to undertake the following activities:

• Attendance Project to support improved/maintained attendance with particular focus on eFSM pupils and those who are post COVID persistent absentees.
• Literacy and Numeracy Intervention for Key Stage 3 pupils.
• Deployment of Inclusion Team to work with vulnerable pupils, their families and the pastoral team to provide the best possible inclusion support and reduce the number of fixed term exclusions.
• Learning Coaches to provide wellbeing support to pupils across Key Stages 3 & 4 to improve pupils engagement and ‘close the gap’
• Extension of Accelerated Reader Programme with pupils in Year 9.
• Staff training and development to support above programmes.

Professional Learning Grant 2022/23

The school has received a total Professional Learning Grant of £31,847 to undertake the following activities in support of the Professional Learning of our staff:

• Provision of a timetabled Professional Learning lesson for all teachers each fortnight with a focus on whole school priorities and improving pedagogy.

The schools’ use of the grants is regularly scrutinised by the Governing Body, supported by advice from EAS and monitored by the Local Authority.