Pupil Premium
Pupil Premium Strategy Statement
This statement details our school’s use of pupil premium funding for 2025-2026 to help improve the attainment of our disadvantaged pupils.
It outlines our pupil premium strategy, how we intend to spend the funding in this academic year and the effect that last year’s spending of pupil premium had within our school.
School overview
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Detail |
Data |
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The Ellen Wilkinson School for Girls |
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Number of pupils in school |
1070 |
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Proportion (%) of pupil premium eligible pupils |
35 |
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Academic year/years that our current pupil premium strategy plan covers (3 year plans are recommended) |
2025-2026 |
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Date this statement was published |
September 2025 |
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Date on which it will be reviewed |
August 2026 |
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Statement authorised by |
R Kruger |
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Pupil premium lead |
A Graham |
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Governor / Trustee lead |
TBC |
Funding overview
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Detail |
Amount |
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Pupil premium funding allocation this academic year |
£ 386 875 |
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Recovery premium funding allocation this academic year |
£ 0 |
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Pupil premium funding carried forward from previous years (enter £0 if not applicable) |
£ 0 |
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Total budget for this academic year If your school is an academy in a trust that pools this funding, state the amount available to your school this academic year |
£ 386 875 |
Part A: Pupil premium strategy plan
Statement of Intent
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Challenges
This details the key challenges to achievement that we have identified among our disadvantaged pupils.
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Challenge number |
Detail of challenge |
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1 |
Progress of PP students |
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2 |
Attendance of vulnerable children |
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3 |
Ensuring high quality teaching is maintained throughout any closure or absences through access to hardware and software |
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4 |
Address the increased gaps in knowledge and study skills PP students have because of lockdowns especially in mathematics and English. |
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5 |
Literacy, in particular reading ages that are below chronological age |
Intended outcomes
This explains the outcomes we are aiming for by the end of our current strategy plan, and how we will measure whether they have been achieved.
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Intended outcome |
Success criteria |
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All PP students to make the same progress and/or attainment as their peers |
Progress and Attainment for PP students equal to Non-PP |
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Improved reading skills |
Reading age in excess of Chronological age |
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Access to quality learning resources |
All students have laptops and internet access where needed |
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Attendance for disadvantaged student in-line with expected attendance |
Attendance gap between PP and non-PP to be reduced, including persistent absence. |
Activity in this academic year
This details how we intend to spend our pupil premium this academic year to address the challenges listed above.
Teaching (for example, CPD, recruitment and retention)
Budgeted cost: £ 275 370
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Activity |
Evidence that supports this approach |
Challenge number(s) addressed |
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● Maintaining smaller classes to provide more personalised teaching to support the development of metacognition and to improve self-regulation ● Teaching staff to know who their PP students are and to use their data to inform teaching & planning to ensure student progress ● Ensuring the KS3 curriculum prepares students for KS4 ● Embedding and reviewing schemes of work specifically to promote our school wide Communication Friendly Strategies ● English lessons with increased focus on reading and reading comprehension ● Use of reading and writing ladders to support students’ understanding of how to make progress ● Additional classes in Year 7 and 8 in English and Maths |
This curriculum model in over the last decade has shown improved outcomes for PP students which have been above national outcomes across the curriculum. The EEF has examined the positive effects of smaller classes |
2,3 and 4 |
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The Education Endowment Foundation states that on average, reading comprehension approaches deliver an additional six months’ progress. https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/education-evidence/guidance-reports/literacy-ks3-ks4 |
5 |
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Additional mathematics specialist to deliver small group and 1 to 1 intervention |
4 |
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Ensuring high quality subject specialists are delivering lessons during staff absences |
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3 |
Targeted academic support (for example, tutoring, one-to-one support structured interventions)
Budgeted cost: £ 65 263
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Activity |
Evidence that supports this approach |
Challenge number(s) addressed |
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Numeracy – small group work and Star Maths |
Students have all improved numeracy skills |
1, 4 |
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Literacy – improving reading age through Star Reader and Accelerated Reader programmes |
Data has shown the impact on students that have undergone the intervention to have improved their reading significantly |
5, 4, 1 |
Wider strategies (for example, related to attendance, behaviour, wellbeing)
Budgeted cost: £ 46 242
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Activity |
Evidence that supports this approach |
Challenge number(s) addressed |
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Breakfast Club
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Improved attendance of PP students |
2,4 |
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Learning Mentors |
Improved engagement of more vulnerable PP students |
1, 2 |
Total budgeted cost: £ 386 875
Part B: Review of outcomes in the previous academic year
Pupil premium strategy outcomes
This details the impact that our pupil premium activity had on pupils in the 2024-2025 academic year.
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Please note: Progress 8 score not available for 2024 examinations Percentage of pupil premium students with a positive progress score – 62.9% Percentage of all students with a positive progress score – 71.4% Percentage of pupil premium students achieving Grades 9-4 in English and Maths – 67.1% Percentage of all students achieving Grades 9-4 in English and Maths – 76.4% |
Externally provided programmes
Please include the names of any non-DfE programmes that you purchased in the previous academic year. This will help the Department for Education identify which ones are popular in England
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Programme |
Provider |
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Twinkl |
Protocol |
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Accelerated Reader |
Academy 21 |
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Star Reader |
Star Maths |