Safeguarding Children Statement

At this school, the health, safety and well-being of every child are our paramount concern. We listen to our students and take seriously what they tell us. Our aim is that children will enjoy their time as students in this school.

We want to work in partnership with you to help your child to achieve their full potential and make a positive contribution. On rare occasions our concern about a child may mean that we have to consult other agencies even before we contact you. The procedures which we follow have been laid down by the Slough Area Child Protection Committee, and the school has adopted a Child Protection Policy in line with this for the safety of all. If you want to know more about our procedures or the policy, please speak to the Headteacher or your child’s form tutor.

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Pupil Premium at Lynch Hill Enterprise Academy

The Pupil Premium Grant (PPG) provides funding for two policies:

• Raising the attainment of disadvantaged pupils and closing the gap with their peers.
• Supporting children and young people with parents in the regular armed forces.

The amount of PPG received by the school per student is as follows:

Pupils in years 7 to 11 eligible to receive Free School Meals (FSM) - £935

For any academic year, this will be based on the previous January census and include pupils who are known to have been eligible for FSM in any of the previous 6 years, as well as those first known to be eligible at the January census.

Looked-after children - £1,900

For any academic year, this will be based on the previous January census and include pupils who were looked after by an English or Welsh local authority immediately before being adopted, or who left local authority care on a special guardianship order or child arrangements order.

Pupils in years 7 to 11 with parents in the regular armed services - £300

For any academic year, this will be based on the previous January census and include pupils who were eligible for the service child premium in any of the previous 4 years as well as those recorded as a service child for the first time at the January census.

The grant may be spent in the following ways:

• For the purposes of the school. That is, for the educational benefit of pupils at LHEA.
• For the benefit of pupils registered at other maintained schools or academies.
• On community facilities e.g. services whose provision furthers any charitable purpose for the benefit of pupils at the school or their families, or people who live or work in the locality in which the school is situated.

The grant does not have to be completely spent by schools in the financial; some or all of it may be carried forward to future financial years.

 

Pupil premium strategy statement 2020

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Lynch Hill Enterprise Academy Year 7 Catch-Up Premium 2019-2020

 Context

The literacy and numeracy catch-up premium gives additional funding to support Year 7 pupils who did not achieve the expected standard in reading or maths at the end of Key Stage 2.

The range of scaled scores available for each KS2 test is the same as set in 2016 and is intended to stay the same in future years. The lowest scaled score that can be awarded on a KS2 test is 80. The highest scaled score is 120. Pupils scoring at least a scaled score of 100 will have met the expected standard in the test. A pupil awarded a scaled score of 99 or less has not met the expected standard in the test.

The level of funding allocated changed in 2016, originally set at £500 per student not meeting the expected standard. However, with the introduction of the new KS2 SATs and scaled scores in 2016, the funding allocated to schools was set at the same level as the previous year, adjusted to match a percentage increase or decrease in the number of students on roll, regardless of the number of students meeting the criteria set.

The table below illustrates this for LHEA.

Academic Year	NoR	NoR not meeting the expected standard	Funding allocated	Funding per student
2014-15	60	8	£4,000	£500
2015-16	84	9	£4,500	£500
2016-17	95	45	£5,089	£113
2017-18	175	45	£9,374	£208
2018-19	156	53	£8,356	£158
2019-20	166	64	£8,892	£139

 

 Rationale

At Lynch Hill Enterprise Academy, we have an inclusive ethos and strive to provide the best possible education for all of our students. We liaise closely with our primary colleagues throughout the primary-secondary transition in order to identify those students in need of additional support and ensure that their need is addressed through a variety of strategies including bespoke catch-up programmes and additional in class support, among others.

The progress these students make is tracked throughout their time at school so that the support can be adapted in line with their individual needs. Inevitably, given the figures in the table above, the amount of funding invested by the school in supporting these students is in excess of that received through our allocation.

 Reading

On-going analysis of our incoming cohort each year has informed our plans for supporting those students not meeting the expected standard. We have identified a need for urgent and intensive tuition in reading for a large number of our incoming cohort. The importance of students being able to read well in order to access the more demanding aspects of our secondary curriculum which will empower them to succeed in the next stage of their education cannot be underestimated, and we have partnered with Thinking Reading in order to ensure that our students have the ability to read proficiently.

The Thinking Reading programme identifies students with different needs in terms of their reading, and delivers targeted, intensive one to one tuition to accelerate the reading ability of these students. This will be delivered alongside our genuinely broad, challenging curriculum which explicitly aims to increase vocabulary, utilise challenging texts, and promote reading at every opportunity.

Specific criteria dictate which students receive support and at what point they graduate from the programme. The students identified in need are monitored as a separate learner group and their progress monitored throughout their secondary education even after graduating the programme.

 Mathematics

The Maths department use the data from the KS2 SATs to identify not only which students have not met the expected standard, but in which areas of maths their skills and understanding required development.  This information directly informs curriculum and lesson planning in Year 7 for those students as well as small group and 1:1 tuition where appropriate.

 SEND & Disadvantaged

A number of the students within the Catch-Up cohort receive support from our SEND team and this crossover provides us with an excellent opportunity to deliver further assistance which complements the existing programmes. Likewise, some of the students receiving support as part of the Catch-Up programmes are eligible to receive the Pupil Premium Grant. These students demand more detailed monitoring given that they meet the criteria for multiple support programmes. Subsequently, these students will be highlighted within the summary reports published this year.

Impact

The Thinking Reading programme is commencing in May 2020, so data regarding the impact on our students will not be available until the 2020-21 academic year. Summary reports on the English and Maths performance of previous cohorts will be made available later this year.