Pupil Premium Provision: John Ferneley College.

John Ferneley College  John Ferneley College is an 11 – 16 secondary school in the Market town of Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire  We currently have 1090 pupils on roll and of this 243 students are eligible for the Pupil Premium funding  We will receive just over £ in pupil premium funding this year  In January 2015 we commissioned a review of our Pupil Premium Provision, carried out by David Deacon Specialist Leader of Education and Deputy Head at Ashmount Special School

Our key aims for 2014/15  Improve progress for disadvantaged students in Maths  Improve progress for disadvantaged students in English  Improve attendance and punctuality of disadvantaged students across the college  Improve the literacy ability for all disadvantaged students  Develop awareness and aspiration of post 16 provisions for disadvantaged students

Pupil Premium Provision Examples of John Ferneley College’s Pupil Premium Provision 2014/15 Breakfast ClubHomework Club Equipment and curriculum resources Nurture Group Careers guidance and support Alternative provision Counselling service and appointment of student managers New attendance officer & attendance monitoring Weekly 1:1 sessions in Maths and English Maths Teachers to meet with parents of PP students Literacy Blitz Study support sessions

Breakfast club & Homework club Breakfast club runs everyday from 8am to 8:30am and is partially funded by the Pupil Premium budget Aim to help improve attendance and punctuality of disadvantaged students and also to give students a healthy start to the day Homework club runs everyday from 3:30 to 4:30 and again is partially funded by the Pupil Premium budget. Aim is to give disadvantaged students a safe and supportive environment to complete homework & complete intervention sessions

Breakfast club & Homework club impact 50% of disadvantaged students attend breakfast club Attendance of disadvantaged students has improved by 3% to 93.4% Number of disadvantaged students regularly late to college is now 8 – down from 17 Last year 68% of disadvantaged students attend homework club. (165 out of 243) 74% of disadvantaged students are currently making expected progress or better in English and Maths in Year 11 85% of disadvantaged students are currently making expected progress or better in English and Maths in Years 9, 8 & 7

Nurture group & Nurture Teacher  Nurture teacher appointed and Nurture group established in Years 7, 8 & 9  60% of students currently in our Nurture groups are eligible for Pupil Premium funding  The aim of the nurture group is to support our least able students develop their literacy and numeracy skills to able them to access our Key Stage 4 curriculum  Impact: Disadvantaged students within the Nurture group programme improve their reading age on average by a minimum of 2 years per year  The majority of disadvantaged students within the Nurture group programme are predicted to finish Year 9 having made 3 levels of progress in English and Maths

1:1 sessions in Maths and English  Every Year 11 Pupil Premium student receives a weekly 1:1 session with their English and Maths teacher.  Every Maths teacher also has a regular meeting with the parents/carers of the Year 11 Pupil Premium students that they teach.  We employ 2 Maths ‘Gurus’ to support disadvantaged students in lessons and 1:1 session after school

1:1 sessions in Maths and English Impact  Impact: Live data for 2015 currently shows that;  Over 80% of disadvantaged students are making at least expected progress in English.  Over 70% of disadvantaged students are making at least expected progress in Maths.  This data is based on weekly mock exams completed by students with the results moderated both internally and externally.

Careers guidance and support  Aim is to raise the aspirations of our disadvantaged students and make them aware of the opportunities available to them  Every student in school receives at least one meeting with our careers advisor  Our careers advisor sees Pupil Premium students as a priority  Interviews start with Year 11 students to look at post 16 opportunities and then followed by Year 9 to assist them with their options choices. This is then followed by Year 10, Year 8 and Year 7  Parents are regularly kept informed via action plans generated from each interview  Impact: Last year we had no NEET’s for any of our Year 11 leavers. Including all of our disadvantaged students  In Year 10 all of our disadvantaged students are on the appropriate courses and we have had minimal options changes

Alternative provision  The aim of our alternative provision is to engage students in courses that we are unable offer at John Ferneley and help develop our disadvantaged students to become ‘College ready’  Pupil premium funding is used for disadvantaged students to access an alternative curriculum at key stage 4  Students are offered a variety of alternative courses ranging from Animal care to Hair & Beauty  Impact: Demonstrated in our NEET figures

How does John Ferneley College assess the Impact of the Pupil Premium Spend?  All students at John Ferneley College have their progress tracked using the schools tracking system 6 times a year  Pupil Premium students have their Attendance, Progress and Behaviour tracked and analysed by SLT and the Year Leaders  Year Leaders are also asked to review the impact of the Pupil Premium spend on each of the Pupil Premium students in their year group

How does John Ferneley College decide on the Pupil Premium Spend?  We looked at the needs of our students and how we could help them get the best out of school  We looked at the concerns we had with our disadvantaged students and identified a number of areas that we felt we needed to improve our provision in  We critically review our provision from the previous year and see what alteration and amendments we can make  We generate a Pupil Premium action plan and put together our Pupil Premium panel

Pupil Premium Provision: John Ferneley College.