Al-Furqan Primary School

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Pupil Premium

Please read the information below which gives details of our Pupil Premium Grant and how we allocate the funding.

Al-Furqan Primary School Pupil premium strategy statement

School Overview

Metric	Data
School name	Al-Furqan Primary School
Pupils in school	630
Proportion of disadvantaged pupils	29%
Pupil premium allocation this academic year	£246,135
Academic year or years covered by statement	2019-2021
Publish date	01 December 2020
Review date	01 November 2021
Statement authorised by	Sue Barratt
Pupil premium lead	Sadyah Yafai
Governor lead	Sylvia Fry

Disadvantaged pupil progress scores for last academic year

(National Assessment data for the 2019-2020 academic year unavailable due to the national lockdown following the Covid-19 pandemic)

Summer 2019 data

Measure	Score
Reading	3.1
Writing	1.5
Maths	3.6

Disadvantaged pupil performance overview for last academic year

(National Assessment data for the 2019-2020 academic year unavailable due to the national lockdown following the Covid-19 pandemic)

Summer 2019 data

Measure	Score
Meeting expected standard at KS2	68%
Achieving high standard at KS2	19%

Strategy aims for disadvantaged pupils

Measure	Activity
Priority 1	Teaching staff to regularly review understanding, level of challenge and quantity and quality of work for disadvantaged pupils during lessons.
Priority 2	Children in PP families have the same opportunities as none PP families.
Barriers to learning these priorities address	• language and vocabulary skills (speaking & reading skills) • High numbers of pupils with EAL • widen experience of PP children

Teaching priorities for current academic year

Aim	Target	Target date
Progress in Reading	Continue/maintain Reading above national progress scores in key stage 2	September 2021
Progress in Writing	Continue/maintain Writing above national progress scores in key stage 2	September 2021
Progress in Mathematics	Continue/maintain Maths above national progress scores in key stage 2 maths	September 2021
Phonics	Continue/maintain phonics above national expected standard in year 1	September 2021
Other	Increase participation of pupil premium pupils in extracurricular activities, both inside and outside school e.g. clubs, enabling enterprise trips etc. in order to broaden experiences Increase participation	September 2021

Remember to focus support on disadvantaged pupils reaching the expected standard in phonics check at end of Y1

Measure	Activity
Priority 1	Ensure all staff receive training focusing on reading & writing improving classroom pedagogy.
Priority 2	Increase children’s vocabulary and reading for pleasure
Priority 3	Implement new phonics scheme of work across school.
Barriers to learning these priorities address	High levels of EAL means that children spend longer on developing language skills and therefore reading and writing strategies require more time and practise in order to become sufficiently embedded. High proportion of children do not speak English at home
Projected spending	£6000

Targeted academic support for current academic year

Measure	Activity
Priority 1	Intervention teachers and teaching assistants to provide targeted support for children who are falling behind.
Priority 2	Year 6 holiday and booster clubs (Reading , Writing and Mathematics)
Priority 3	Provide pupils with book parcels to take home and continue to build on their library at home
Barriers to learning these priorities address	Children struggle with higher order reading skills such as inference and deduction and are not answering with sufficient depth when reading. They also have difficulties with technical and specific vocabulary. This may be due to high percentage of EAL pupils Gaps in learning due to lost time in an educational setting due to.
Projected spending	£225,083.00

Wider strategies for current academic year

Measure	Activity
Priority 1	Children to participate in enrichment activities, (Skills Builder), whole school Challenge Day.
Priority 2	Provide breakfast club for children, ensuring they have opportunities to have a healthy breakfast at the start of the day, talk and play, as well as ensuring punctuality and readiness for school.
Priority 3	Family worker to support families by providing programmes eg Nuture programme, Freedom programme .
Priority 4	Midday supervisors to support pupil premium children with extra needs.
Priority 5	Music lessons Djembe To enrich the curriculum and provide children an awareness of other musical cultures and traditions they may not otherwise have. Children will gain a creative lift which gives them a great boost of confidence and feel engaged.
Barriers to learning these priorities address	Some pupils have a lack of experiences in the local environment, in which they can base their future learning on. Engaging parents.
Projected spending	£15,052.00

Monitoring and Implementation

Area

Challenge

Mitigating action

Teaching

Ensure that enough time is allocated for staff training.

Ensure that gaps are closed between the different groups

Timetable staff training on calendar

Monitor every half term pp progress

Targeted support

Regular monitoring of children who are falling behind.

Attendance at booster classes

Timetable monitoring every half term, pupil progress meetings

Letters sent out to parents and teachers to speak to them on the importance of attending

Wider strategies

Widening children’s experiences

Engaging families

Ensuring pupil premium children are also taking opportunities to attend breakfast club and other clubs

Plan opportunities to widen children’s opportunities eg enabling enterprise

Workshops for parents to attend, family worker to work with families to ensure they are engaged

Review: last year’s aims and outcomes

Aim	Outcome
To improve language skills so that reading and writing strategies become sufficiently embedded.	(National Assessment data for the 2019-2020 academic year unavailable due to the national lockdown following the Covid-19 pandemic.) Below is based on the data for 2019 Key stage 2 results were good, above National in ARE and Higher standard for all pupils in all subjects. Combined for RWM was also above the national in ARE and higher standard Phonics score above the National. Disadvantaged pupil’s phonics score above National in Year 1 and Year 2 Phonics Check Year 2 above National in all areas. Disadvantaged outperformed the Non Disadvantaged in reading, writing and maths at the expected and in reading, writing and maths compared to Nationally at the expected.
To improve inference, deduction, and understanding of technical and specific vocabulary and being able to answer questions with sufficient depth.	(National Assessment data for the 2019-2020 academic year unavailable due to the national lockdown following the Covid-19 pandemic.) Below is based on the data for 2019 Key stage 2 results were good, above National in ARE and Higher standard for all pupils in all subjects. Combined for RWM was also above the national in ARE and higher standard
Other To increase participation of pupil premium pupils in extracurricular activities, both inside and outside school e.g. clubs, enabling enterprise trips etc. in order to broaden experiences	Children developed Teamwork & Leadership; Listening & Presenting; Aiming High & Staying Positive; Problem Solving & Creativity skills. Children who were normally shy and needed encouragement to participate in everyday lessons did not need that when working on the project/participating on the Challenge Day. Below are the trips children were involved in Year 4 business trips KPMG One Snow Hill Birmingham (one of the largest professional services companies in the world. Its global headquarters is in Amstelveen, the Netherlands) https://www.skillsbuilder.org/press/Al-Furqan-Primary-School-visit-KPMG-One-Snow-Hill-Birmingham-2019-12-13 Due to COVID -19 we did not participate in all business trips . *Breakfast club* Children have an opportunity to have a healthy breakfast at the start of the day, talk and play, as well as ensuring punctuality and readiness for school. 34 disadvantaged children benefited from having a nutritional breakfast , exercising in the morning, at school, completing homework, socialising etc

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