CASTERTON COLLEGE RUTLAND
RUTLAND COUNTY COLLEGE
POLICY STATEMENT
Pupil Premium
Formulation date:
December 2015
Senior Team Responsibility:
CS
Reviewed:
March 2016
Next Review Date:
March 2017
Principles
At Casterton College Rutland, all members of staff and Governors accept responsibility for
‘socially disadvantaged’ pupils and are committed to meeting their pastoral, social and
academic needs within a caring environment.
As with every child in our care, a child who is considered to be ‘socially disadvantaged’ is valued,
respected and entitled to develop to his/her full potential, irrespective of their disadvantage.
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Pupil Premium Statement
We are wholly and unequivocally committed to eradicating the gap in performance between
disadvantaged students (who have been in receipt of free school meals at any time over the last
6 years) and all other students nationally.
Our belief is that a child’s ability is not fixed so we expect disadvantaged children to exceed the
progress expected of them by national benchmarks
If they do not exceed expected progress we will intervene to ensure they do so
We ensure that funds received for this purpose are used solely for doing so and the spending of
them is tracked and monitored for its impact on a regular basis
We have engaged a team of staff with specifically responsibility for co-ordinating our work on
raising the achievement of pupil premium students and they report to the governing body and
are held accountable for the impact of their work
This year we have received £127,800 for the purpose of raising the achievement of
disadvantaged students and this has been spent on a range of strategies which are recorded on
the accompanying pupil premium financial report.
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Pupil Premium Policy
Aim
To eradicate the effect of socio-economic disadvantage on student performance so that there is
no gap between their performance and that of other students
Minimum Success Benchmarks
The gap between the performance of disadvantaged students (FSM ever and Service children)
and other students is smaller than the national average and closing
70% make expected progress and 30% exceed expected progress
Attendance of disadvantaged students at Casterton is better than disadvantaged students
nationally
Aspiration Success Benchmarks
The gap between the performance of disadvantaged students (FSM ever) and other students is
less than 5%and heading towards zero
90% make expected progress and 50% exceed expected progress
Attendance of disadvantaged students is as good as other students
Basic Principles
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We accept that we have a public and moral duty to use pupil premium funds for the
purpose of helping disadvantaged students to achieve as well as other students
Pupil Premium funds will be used solely for the purpose of supporting pupil premium
students to raise their achievement
The spending of these funds will be tracked and the effectiveness of that spending will be
evaluated and reported to the governing body
We will undertake an annual audit of the barriers to learning for our pupil premium students
We will construct and maintain a plan for raising the achievement of pupil premium
students and monitor this regularly
Specific staff will be given particular responsibility for the progress of pupil premium students
and will be held to account for the impact they have
All staff including teachers and teaching assistants will be expected to take responsibility for
the progress of pupil premium students and will be held to account for the impact they
have
We will monitor the attendance and progress of pupil premium students on a regular basis
We will ensure that staff with particular responsibility for the progress pupil premium students
make are aware, and maintain a good awareness of, external research into effective
approaches to using pupil premium funds
We regard the engagement parents as crucial to the success of any strategies designed to
raise the achievement of pupil premium students
All staff, and especially those with particular responsibility for pupil premium students, will be
provided with training to ensure they understand best practice and apply it from an
informed perspective
Roles and Responsibilities
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A member of the governing body will act as the pupil premium governor and be
responsible for challenging the effectiveness of the work of senior leaders and the pupil
premium team in raising the achievement of pupil premium students
A senior member of staff will be responsible for leading a pupil premium team consisting of
a pupil premium champion and four House Learning Directors
The team shall ensure there is a pupil premium plan based on an audit of the barriers to
learning for pupil premium students and that both of these are renewed annually
The team are responsible for executing the plan and reviewing its effectiveness on a
regular basis
Performance data on the progress of pupil premium students will be tracked separately to
other students and reviewed at least six times a year
Teachers follow a pledge known as the Teacher Pledge to identify, apply and monitor the
effectiveness of classroom strategies designed to ensure pupil premium students exceed
expected progress
Teachers will always be aware of the particular needs and progress of all pupil premium
students they teach
Pupil premium students are expected to exceed expected progress and if they are not,
they will be subject to interventions to enable them to do so
The attendance and behaviour team in partnership with subject leaders and classroom
teachers are responsible for the attendance and behaviour of pupil premium students to
ensure that there is no gap between their attendance and behaviour and that of other
students
Personal tutors are responsible for monitoring the attendance, behaviour and progress of
pupil premium students in their group and providing telephone updates for parents at the
end of every six week term
Reporting, Recording and Monitoring
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The senior member of staff responsible for our pupil premium strategywill report on the
impact of our work with pupil premium students to the pupil premium governor and whole
governing body at every full meeting of the governors
Governor challenges will be recorded in a separate appendix to the minutes
The progress, behaviour and attendance of pupil premium students, as measured against
other students and pupil premium students nationally, shall be recorded in the SelfEvaluation Record Card and updated three times a year
The pupil premium team will monitor the progress of pupil premium students and the
effective application of the pupil premium plan regularly and will report the impact of their
work to senior team
The pupil premium team will attend the Performance Strategy Team meetings of Senior
Team at least twice a term and report on the impact of their work
Classroom teachers will assess the progress of pupil premium students and record this
centrally at least three times a year
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Personal tutors will update the parents of pupil premium students on the progress of their
children six times a year except in any term where parents have already attended a
parent’s evening, academic tutorial or other substantial meeting in school
Subject leaders will assess the progress of pupil premium students in their subject and work
with their team to identify, monitor and review the impact of the strategies they use to raise
the achievement of pupil premium students
Subject leaders will be provided with a monthly report on the number of times pupil
premium students being taught by teachers in their team have been send to remove
(formally removed from the classroom and sent to our unit) and are required to provide an
action plan to address areas of concern
The attendance of pupil premium students will be reported to the pupil premium team at
each meeting
A full impact assessment of the pupil premium strategy will be carried out by a member of
senior team annually
Members of senior team and the pupil premium team will conduct termly learning walks to
monitor the progress of pupil premium students in their classrooms and ensure teachers are
following best practice