Pupil Development Grant Statement
This statement details our school’s use of the PDG for the 2024 to 2025 year. It outlines our strategy, how we intend to spend the funding in this academic year and the effect that last year’s spending had within our school.
School Overview
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Detail |
Data |
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School name |
St Cenydd School |
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Number of learners in school |
1007 |
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Proportion (%) of PDG eligible learners |
32.5% |
Funding Overview
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Detail |
Amount |
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PDG funding allocation this academic year |
£349,600 |
Part A: Strategy Plan
Statement of intent
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The purpose of the PDG is to improve outcomes for learners eligible for free school meals. It is intended to overcome the additional barriers that prevent learners from disadvantaged backgrounds achieving their full potential. |
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 behaviour and wellbeing data |
Targets met |
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Reduce gap in performance at KS4 |
Gap reduced in all performance measures |
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Improve attendance |
Targets met |
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Range of support meeting the needs of eFSM learners |
Targets met |
Activity in this academic year
This details how we intend to spend our PDG this academic year to achieve the intended outcomes listed above
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Learning and teaching
Budgeted cost: £203,577
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Activity |
Evidence that supports this approach |
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Interventions – academic and engagement |
EEF toolkit |
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TA / Classroom Assistant support and intervention |
EEF toolkit |
Wider strategies (for example and where applicable, Health and Well-being, Curriculum and Qualifications, Leadership and Raising Aspirations)
Budgeted cost: £146023
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Activity |
Evidence that supports this approach |
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Attendance focus |
EEF toolkit |
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Behaviour focus |
EEF toolkit |
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Wellbeing / mental health focus |
EEF toolkit |
Total budgeted cost: £349,600
Part B: Review of outcomes in the previous academic year
PDG outcomes
This details the impact that our PDG activity had on pupils in the 2023 to 2024 academic year.
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Activity |
Impact |
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Attendance |
Benchmark 2 in 2023/24 |
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Range of support and interventions |
Improved NT outcomes from entry
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