Premiums information
PE & Sports Grant Statement July 2025
April 2024 – March 2025 - allocated: £16,190
Intervention and Description | Impact | Paid by Sports Grant |
Agency Sports specialist teacher twice a week | Pupils access a wider range of needs-appropriate sporting activities that help develop their growing resilience and social emotional skills | £16,190
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April 2025 – March 2026 Sports Grant allocated: £6,746
PUPIL PREMIUM STATEMENT – JULY 2025
Samuel Rhodes pupils make excellent progress by every measure of outcome which was validated in the last OFSTED inspection and annual Challenge Partners quality assurance review. All pupils have EHCPs, and many have multiple vulnerabilities and protected factors. As a result, these pupils must overcome a range of barriers to learning. The pupil premium is used across the school to reduce inequity and enable all pupils to reach their potential.
April 2024 – March 2025 - Pupil Premium funding allocated: £87,110
Groups targeted:
Pupils eligible for Free School Meals (FSM) (72%) Looked After Children (LAC) (4%)
Intervention and Description | Impact | Paid by Pupil Premium |
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Funding towards our Pastoral Support Co-ordinator role | Improved attendance through parental engagement and safeguarding support around key cases. Better consistency of wrap around support from school | £27,900
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Interventions Lead providing Holistic and pastoral interventions and friendship groups | Pupils resilience observed to be developing. Emotional regulation data shows pupils progressing towards independence | £30,375
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Additional support from CAHMS clinician for directed pupil support and staff supervision and CPD | Behavioural data shows individualised SEMH support is effective and meets the specific needs of the cohort | £19,035
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Enterprise project, Lexia, Enrichment resources and additional sensory equipment | Observational data demonstrates these opportunities effectively support pupil wellbeing | £7,100
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Free Breakfast Club for all pupils | Improved behaviour and pupils access important opportunities for socialisation and support life skills development | £2,700
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Total Spend on planned interventions: | £87,110
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April 2025 – March 2026 Pupil Premium funding allocated: £75,575
Planned spend and measurement of impact will be as above due to outstanding impact. Main barriers to educational achievement faced by eligible pupils at the school remain the same as current statement.
Next Review Date of pupil premium strategy December 2025.
Financial Benchmarking
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We have one member of staff earning a gross salary in excess of £100,000.