Pupil Premium

What is the Pupil Premium?

The pupil premium is additional funding for publicly funded schools in England to raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils and close the gap between them and their peers.

The Department for Education continue to place an increasing emphasis on closing the achievement gap between students receiving the Pupil Premium and other students, with large amounts of additional funding. There is an increasing accountability on schools in terms of how the funding is used and the impact on student achievement and outcomes.

 

How much additional funding does Settle College receive?

For the financial year 2025-26, Settle College has been allocated £110,835 of pupil premium funding. 

How is Settle College using the funding?

The funding is used in a variety of ways to increase the academic outcomes of students that receive the Pupil Premium funding.  The use of the funding is separated into three areas: teaching priorities, targeted academic support and wider strategies.

Strategies that will be used in this area include:

  • Funding to support improvements in students' literacy, for example through staff training, resources to support reading, diagnostic literacy assessments and literacy interventions.
  • TA support during lessons and out-of-lesson support where required.
  • Subscriptions to online platforms to support learning in the classroom and at home.

Strategies that will be used in this area include:

  • Small-group maths and English tuition to supplement the learning from within the lessons where students are working below their target grades, or to provide further challenge to access even higher grades.
  • Providing students with the necessary resources to access the curriculum, for example with catering ingredients at KS4.
  • Staffing for revision sessions and providing students with revision materials such as revision guides, as well as access to the online GCSEpod platform.
  • Provision of the Brilliant Club for high ability Key Stage 3 students to promote high aspirations for the future.
  • Running the Settle College summer school to support transition for the new Year 7 cohort.

Strategies that will be used in this area include:

  • Prioritised access to the school counselling service.
  • Support for opportunities to enrich the taught curriculum, for example trips and extra-curricular music lessons.
  • Providing students with access to reward activities.
  • Support from the attendance officer to improve students’ attendance, where applicable.

Settle College has a Pupil Premium Strategy Statement, which is updated regularly, that details how the above funding will be used and evaluated.  This can be viewed by clicking on the link below:

Pupil Premium Strategy Statement

The school will consider the guidance offered by the Education Endowment Foundation when planning and implementing strategies to raise achievement of target groups.  This is reviewed by the link governor responsible for monitoring the use of the Pupil Premium Funding.

What impact has Pupil Premium Funding had?

2025 Results

The 2025 results were based on 18 students who received Pupil Premium funding in Year 11.  As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, this cohort did not complete their KS2 SATs and so there are no nationally published progress measures available.  The attainment measures for the pupil premium cohort can be found on page 9 of the strategy statement above.  

2024 Results

The provisional school data for 2024 released in December 2024 is based on 10 students who received Pupil Premium funding in Year 11.  The overall Progress 8 score for these students was +0.12.

Progress 8 baskets Pupils eligible for PP at Settle College 2024 Pupils not eligible for PP national average 2024 Pupils eligible for PP national average 2024
Progress 8 score - English +0.02 +0.02 -0.53
Progress 8 score - Maths +0.18 +0.06 -0.47
Progress 8 score - EBacc +0.33 +0.05 -0.57
Porgress 8 score - open -0.08 +0.02 -0.62

2023 Results

The 2023 results were based on 10 students who received Pupil Premium funding in Year 11.  The overall Progress 8 score for these students was -1.01, compared to 2023 national average for non-pupil premium students of +0.05.

Progress 8 baskets

Pupils eligible for PP at Settle College 2023

Pupils not eligible for PP  National Average

Pupils eligible for PP National average 2023
Progress 8 score - English -1.13 0.03 -0.54
Progress 8 score - Maths -0.81 0.07 -0.47
Progress 8 score - EBacc -0.87 0.06 -0.57
Progress 8 score - open -1.2 0.03 -0.63