Pupil Premium
At The Stonebridge School, we invest in teacher development to deliver an ambitious and engaging curriculum and through this we strive to reduce the impact of social disadvantage by providing a high-quality education and pastoral care for all of our pupils. We aim for our pupils to achieve high standards, be confident and responsible world citizens.
The focus of our pupil premium strategy is to support disadvantaged pupils to achieve these goals, including progress for those who are already high attainers.
High-quality teaching is our highest priority, with a focus on areas in which disadvantaged pupils
require the most support such as reading and language comprehension and mathematical fluency.
We invest in human resources to enable instructional coaching of all teachers as this is proven to
have the greatest impact on closing the disadvantage attainment gap and at the same time will
benefit the non-disadvantaged pupils in our school. Implicit in the intended outcomes detailed
below, is the intention that non-disadvantaged pupils’ attainment will be sustained and improved
alongside progress for their disadvantaged peers.
Alongside the academic rigour, we also strive to provide all of our pupils with experiences, such as trips and workshops, drama and social literacy.
Our approach will be responsive to common challenges and individual needs, rooted in robust
diagnostic assessment, not assumptions about the impact of disadvantage. The approaches we have adopted complement each other to help pupils excel. To ensure they are effective we will:
- Ensure disadvantaged pupils are challenged in the work that they’re set.
- Act early to intervene at the point need is identified.
- Adopt a whole school approach in which all staff take responsibility for disadvantaged pupils’ outcomes and raise expectations of what they can achieve.
- Ensure disadvantaged pupils have access to the full curriculum including the wider offer.
Click the files below to see our PPG report:
