Early Years Pupil Premium Funding for Ethelred Nursery School and Children’s Centre
Early Years Pupil Premium Funding is additional funding from the Department for Education (DfE) for Early Years settings to help further improve the educational outcomes for disadvantaged 3 and 4 year olds.
Pupil Premium Strategy 2018/19
Number of eligible children:
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2018/19 Summer 2018 Autumn 2018 Spring 2019 |
Number of children per term 18 10 12 £300.00 per child per year |
The main barriers to educational achievement that the disadvantaged children in our school face are:
- Socio-economic factors
- Lack of parental skills/capacity
- Speech and language difficulties/autism
- Low baseline scores in the prime areas of learning – PSED; Physical and Communication & Language
We intend to spend the 2018/19 allocation on:
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How barrier will be overcome |
Success measure |
Lead |
Budget |
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Sensory room resources
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Children with ASD have their sensory needs met |
SENCO |
£1,775 |
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Library book resources |
Parents using books with children at home and children demonstrating interest at nursery |
Class teacher |
£1,500 |
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Individual parent support |
Nursery and CC working together and individual needs met |
CC Better start workers Key persons |
Cost to school/CC budget |
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Match funding for Music Therapy |
Parents and children learning and working together. Children demonstrating more confidence and initiating learning |
Deputy head |
£2,725 |
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Total |
£6,000 |
Previous Academic Year: 2017/18
Amount devolved for 2017/2018: £5,035
The following report details how our allocation of £5,035 was spent for the year 1/04/17 to 31/03/18
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Activity/focus of service |
Cost |
Rationale |
Expected impact |
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Additional Meal Supervisor hours to support vulnerable children before/after the lunch time period |
Meal Supervisor hours- part costs £1,000 |
To support vulnerable children whose on- entry baselines are below age-related expectations |
A higher proportion of children attain age- related expectations in CLL and PSED than indicated by baseline data. More resilience and independence demonstrated |
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Music therapy sessions for targeted children who have learning and development needs
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Music Therapy tutor - part costs £1,035 |
To engage parents to develop further strategies to support their children at home through an enjoyable and accessible medium that is proven to have benefits. To develop children’s self-confidence, motivation and persistence |
Observed improved parental engagement. Improvement in child’s ability to lead, direct and sustain their own learning
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Weekly creative arts enrichment activities delivered by a community artist, to broaden children’s experiences and develop language, PSED, and physical skills |
£3,000 Community Artist costs |
To support the development of early language, PSED and physical skills |
An Improvement in outcomes for Communication and Language, PSED and fine motor control based on the previous year’s data |
The 2019/20 Pupil Premium Strategy review will take place in June 2019. We intend to spend the 2019./20 allocation on:
- Sensory room resources
- Improved library book resources
- Match-funding for Music Therapy
- TA hours for language groups
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