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Please find information on how we use pupil premium and recovery premium funding to help improve the attainment of our disadvantaged pupils. It outlines our pupil premium strategy, how we intend to spend the funding in this academic year and the effect that last year’s spending of pupil premium had within our school.
We want to ensure that disadvantaged students achieve and flourish at school, enjoying a broad and balanced curriculum, developing a love for art, culture and sport and becoming independent learners who are also engaged and responsible citizens.
This statement details our school’s use of pupil premium (and recovery premium for the 2021 to 2022 academic year) funding to help improve the attainment of our disadvantaged pupils.
It outlines our pupil premium strategy, how we intend to spend the funding in this academic year and the effect that last year’s spending of pupil premium had within our school.
School overview
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Detail |
Data |
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School name |
Friern Barnet School |
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Number of pupils in school |
728 |
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Proportion (%) of pupil premium eligible pupils |
40% |
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Academic year/years that our current pupil premium strategy plan covers |
Three |
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Date this statement was published |
24 January 2022 |
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Date on which it will be reviewed |
January 2023 |
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Statement authorised by |
Statement authorised by |
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Pupil premium lead |
Jane Mullan |
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Governor / Trustee lead |
Ann Woodhall |
Funding overview
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Detail |
Amount |
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Pupil premium funding allocation this academic year |
£294,282 |
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Recovery premium funding allocation this academic year |
£ 45,313 |
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Pupil premium funding carried forward from previous years (enter £0 if not applicable) |
£ 0 |
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Total budget for this academic year (if your school is an academy in a trust that pools this funding, state the amount available to your school this academic year) |
£339,595 |
Statement of intent
We want to ensure that disadvantaged students achieve and flourish at school, enjoying a broad and balanced curriculum, developing a love for art, culture and sport and
becoming independent learners who are also engaged and responsible citizens.
To this end we will:
Challenges
This details the key challenges to achievement that we have identified among our disadvantaged pupils.
Intended outcomes
This explains the outcomes we are aiming for by the end of our current strategy plan, and how we will measure whether they have been achieved.
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Intended outcome |
Success criteria |
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Improved attendance and reduced persistent absence |
Attendance in line or better than national averages; persistent absence data to be at or better than national data |
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Improved attainment |
KS3 – students reach age related expectations KS4 – progress data to be at national averages (ensure sufficient challenge for each prior attainment group, including high ability) |
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Better reading comprehension |
Closing the gap between actual reading age and age-expected reading age so that students can access an appropriate curriculum |
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Social, emotional and behavioural needs of students are met |
Early intervention in place; number of fixed term exclusions at or below national averages; restorative justice established; PSHE programme enhanced with external agency support |
Activity this academic year
Please click on the link to view our activity this academic year
| Activity in this academic year |
Pupil premium strategy outcomes
This details the impact that our pupil premium activity had on pupils in the 2020 to 2021 academic year.
Due to COVID-19, performance measures have not been published for 2019 to 2020 or for 2020 to 2021.
In the last two years teacher assessed grades have been given to students. The results have shown a narrowing of the gap between disadvantaged students when compared to the whole cohort:
2020
A8 English overall: 9.4; disadvantaged: 9.4
A8 maths overall: 8.6; disadvantaged: 8.1
2021
A8 English overall: 8.5; disadvantaged: 8.2
A8 maths overall: 8.6; disadvantaged: 7.9
2019 data for comparison shows:
A8 English overall: 8.5; disadvantaged: 7.3
A8 maths overall: 7.0; disadvantaged: 5.8
Externally provided programmes
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Programme |
Provider |
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Brilliant Club Scholars programme |
Brilliant Club |
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NTP in maths and English |
TLC |
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Arts based summer school |
Art Depot (Barnet) |
Useful links
Please click on the link to be redirected to the Covid-19 Catch Up Funding page.
| Covid-19 Catch Up Funding |
Please click on the link for a printable version of our Pupil Premium Strategy Statement:
| Pupil Premium Strategy Statement |
