The pupil premium is additional funding given to publicly funded schools in England to raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils and close the gap between them and their peers. “It is for schools to decide how the Pupil Premium, allocated to schools per FSM pupil, is spent, since they are best placed to assess what additional provision should be made for the individual pupils within their responsibility.”
Source - DfE website. Schools are required to publish the following information:
Current academic year:
Previous academic year:
Please find below our Pupil Premium Strategy 2021-2024, Pupil Premium Strategy 2020-2021 and the Pupil Premium Progress Report 2021.
Historically, Leighton Middle School has found the following on-going initiatives effective in supporting the attainment and progress of pupils in receipt of the Pupil Premium Grant:
Our pupil premium money is used to provide a range of additional support for our children whether this is academic or pastoral. Pupil progress and attainment is monitored continually by teachers, support staff, Heads of Department and the Senior Leadership Team. We hold regular Mind the Gap meetings to identify pupils in need of additional support which also enables us to discuss any elements of well-being that need to be considered. These interventions and other initiatives, along with quality first teaching are having a positive impact on pupil progress and attainment.
Post-LAC pupils are mentored by the Assistant Head teacher responsible for Pastoral Care and all receive a personalised learning plan.
We positively discriminate towards pupils in receipt of the Pupil Premium Grant to ensure they are exposed to the best learning experiences possible. For example: providing access to specialised activities when they are available (e.g. extra cooking classes) and increased within school ‘leaders of learning’ opportunities.
We expect all pupils to make at least ‘good’ progress to ensure they make accelerated progress and are more able to diminish the difference towards age related expectations as they progress through the school (often pupils enter the school below expectations).
Increasing parental engagement has been a focus of the school in the last couple of years. Additional meetings have been held to increase parental understanding of reading strategies as well as utilising videos to demonstrate approaches that could be used at home. We now have a highly successful Facebook page which increases easy communication opportunities with parents.
We will continue to adapt and amend our approaches as necessary as the year progresses.
Unfortunately not the ones with chocolate chips.
Our cookies ensure you get the best experience on our website.
Please make your choice!
Some cookies are necessary in order to make this website function correctly. These are set by default and whilst you can block or delete them by changing your browser settings, some functionality such as being able to log in to the website will not work if you do this. The necessary cookies set on this website are as follows:
A 'sessionid' token is required for logging in to the website and a 'crfstoken' token is
used to prevent cross site request forgery.
An 'alertDismissed' token is used to prevent certain alerts from re-appearing if they have
been dismissed.
An 'awsUploads' object is used to facilitate file uploads.
We use Matomo cookies to improve the website performance by capturing information such as browser and device types. The data from this cookie is anonymised.
Cookies are used to help distinguish between humans and bots on contact forms on this website.
A cookie is used to store your cookie preferences for this website.
Cookies that are not necessary to make the website work, but which enable additional functionality, can also be set. By default these cookies are disabled, but you can choose to enable them below: