Pupil Premium

The Government give funding to schools for all children who are Looked After or who are entitled to free school meals. This amount works out at approximately £1, 320 per eligible pupil per year and £1, 900 per Looked after Child. Phoenix Academy had 37 pupils eligible for this funding in 2018/19.

At Phoenix Academy we spent this money providing additional staff to work with pupils who require a greater level of support to manage their difficulties and access the curriculum and by funding trips to enhance the creative curriculum, we also had a whole wall Mural painted by a local author/illustrator which enabled the pupils to become involved through their emotional literacy topics. The following interventions were also delivered:-

Individual additional tuition for Literacy and Maths
Small group teaching for Literacy and Maths to allow setting across the school.
Booster groups to address target areas in Literacy and Maths.
Pragmatics
Mentoring
Anger management and interventions to reduce anxiety in the classroom
Bespoke learning programmes to address barriers to learning, including: Life education workshops

The aim of this work is to accelerate progress above national expectations in literacy and Maths. Progress was measured by progress steps against the new curriculum and are not comparable to previous data which used national curriculum levels.

Further information is available by clicking on the above Pupil Premium Review 2018/2019 link above.

2014/15

86% of pupils made accelerated progress in reading

81% of pupils made accelerated progress in writing

76% of pupils made accelerated progress in maths

2013/14

84% of pupils made accelerated progress in reading

60% of pupils made accelerated progress in writing

76% of pupils made accelerated progress in maths

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