Red Oak Primary School, Lowestoft

Red Oak Primary School receives a Pupil Premium Grant for each child who is entitled to receive Free School Meals or who has been entitled to them over the last six years, children of armed forces personnel and for any ‘Looked After Children’ or children adopted from care. We publish online information about how we have used the premium.

We aim for every single one of our pupil premium funded children to reach at least national expectations in all areas and to make good progress from their starting points.

Barriers to learning

Any barriers to learning are identified for each child at Red Oak Primary school through rigorous data analysis, pupil progress meeting and discussions with staff and parents. We have a focus on vulnerable and disadvantaged children. Our priorities are shared with all staff to best support the learning of individual pupils and any factors which could influence underperformance.

Some of the barriers our families face include:

Socio-economic disadvantage i.e. poverty

Broken family structures

Poor health and diet

Medical needs

Low parental engagement

Parenting skills

Unsupported learning at home - this could be due to lack of resources

Poor education in family

Attendance

Drugs and alcohol

Loss and bereavement

Trauma

Mental health issues

Special educational needs and disabilities

We address barriers to learning faced by individual children through:

• Additional One to One support for pupils who were not on track to achieve require standard in maths, writing, grammar and reading in Year 6. Identified through class teacher discussions, PIXL and tracker data. 

• Subsidising the payment of school trips and events in school.

• Subsidising the payment for before or after school clubs
• Subsidising the payment for Breakfast Club.
• Subsidising music specialist payment for all year groups.
• Employing a speech and language specialist 1 day a week.
• Employing an Educational Psychologist to help earlier identification of needs.
• Employing a full time Parent Support worker.
• Employing a part time mental health worker to support alongside the Parent Support worker.
• Employing a part time sports coach and after school sporting opportunities.
• Providing support through CISS traded offer
• THRIVE online for whole school.
• Targeted intervention where necessary and extra support in lessons
• Pastoral care including regular information, advice and guidance
• Enriching experiences
• Reading books
• Items of uniform and equipment and materials to support learning
• Learning clubs outside the normal school day
• Subsidised educational trips and visits 
• Educational Psychologist assessments
• Healthy lifestyle teaching

Our aim is to ensure our additional Pupil Premium funding is used effectively and makes a significant difference to our disadvantaged children and families. We continually review our spending and the impact it has on engagement, broadening horizons, developing skills, improving attendance, raising aspirations and maximising achievement in order to close the attainment gap between our Pupil Premium students and their peers.

Please click on the PDF file below to see our Pupil Premium strategy statement: