Our GCSE results have shown significant improvement over the last few years and Platanos College has been recognised as one of the top-performing schools.
Our GCSE results have shown significant improvement over the last few years and Platanos College has been recognised as one of the top-performing schools.
The Pupil Premium is additional funding provided by the Department for Education to enhance the education of social-economically disadvantaged pupils (namely those pupils entitled, or previously entitled, to free school meals (FSM), Looked After Children (LAC) or adopted from care).
Schools are free to decide on how best to allocate the funds for programmes to support its disadvantaged pupils.
In September 2021, the percentage of pupils eligible for the Pupil Premium is 69% currently (632 eligible pupils).
The amount of Pupil Premium funds allocated to Platanos College for 2020-2021 was £614,503.
The amount allocated for the 2021-2022 academic year (up until April 2022) is so far at £468,785 (please note that this is due to funds being allocated according to financial year – we therefore do not yet know the allocation beyond April 2022).
Click here for our Pupil Premium Strategy Statement, which is outlined using the DfE’s template.
In addition, a summary of the statement is provided in the below sections.
2.1 Identifying the challenges to learning
As part of our Pupil Premium strategy to improve our pupils’ outcomes, we have identified the potential barriers to educational achievement for disadvantaged pupils. These are outlined via the link below.
2.2 Budget plan to address the identified challenges to learning
Please see below for information on the planned support and allocation of funds.
2.3 A summary of the interventions/provision and the reasons for our approach
The Pupil Premium provision is planned in an integrated and targeted manner for this academic year to ensure that those pupils entitled to the Pupil Premium receive additional support to address the identified barriers.
Our approach is a multifaceted, layered approach in order to provide bespoke support to pupils to overcome barriers. The support provided is based on needs analysis, local and individual or specific needs, and drawn from in-house expertise, or where found to be effective in other settings, or from wider sources such as the Sutton Trust-EEF Toolkit. This flexible, dynamic approach is required to reflect the complex needs of pupils, the changing social factors and trends, and allows us to react accordingly to provide a wholesome level of support.
In Key Stage 3, the additional programmes of support include the following:
In Key Stage 4, the support programmes include the following:
We will monitor the effect of the pupil premium through a range of different measures where applicable. This will include:
The above will be evaluated through a number of ways. This will include:
The support programmes for our disadvantaged pupils have resulted in a positive impact.
Note: If parents/carers are not sure whether their child can have free school meals, please contact the school and we will be able to assist you in confidence.