GENERAL ANNUAL GRANT
Please find below the general annual grant (GAG) funding allocation statement for the 2023 to 2024 academic year, for pre-16 education:
Academy Funding
A copy of our funding agreement for 2020-2021 can be viewed here.
Other financial information including our annual report, audited accounts, memorandum of association, articles of association and names of charity trustees and members can be accessed here.
Pupil Premium
Pupil Premium is allocated to children from low-income families who are currently known to be eligible for free school meals and children who have been looked after continuously for more than six months.
Schools are free to spend the Pupil Premium as they see fit. However, they are held accountable for how they use the additional funding to support identified young people.
We are also required to publish online information about how we have used the Premium. This ensures that parents and others are made fully aware of the attainment of pupils covered by the Premium.
Information regarding our Pupil Premium spending including impact reports can be accessed by clicking the button below.
Springwell Special Academy
Previous plans and review can be found below:
springwell alternative academy
Previous plans and review can be found below:
Sports Premium
We are using this funding in line with our sports premium plan to engage our pupils, inspire legacy and promote positive engagement in new sporting and outdoor education initiatives.
Information regarding our Sports Premium spending can be accessed by clicking the button below:
COVID CATCH-UP
In 2020/21, the government announced it will provide a per-pupil premium to all state funded schools to support pupils to recover from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on their education. The government states:
Schools should use this funding for specific activities to support their pupils to catch up for lost teaching over the previous months, in line with the guidance on curriculum expectations for the next academic year.
While the pandemic caused us to make significant adjustments to organisational and logistical aspects of school life, we made the decision not to make substantive changes to our curriculum. Rather, we continue to ask our teachers to refine and deliver their curricula in line with both the school’s curriculum policy and their own subject-specific curriculum goals. We believe that our carefully sequenced, knowledge-rich curriculum and our focus on quality first teaching, will enable our pupils to catch up and, ultimately, excel. As a matter of policy, our school aims to support the mental health of pupils and address underachievement through our agreed approach and the generality of the school budget enhanced by pupil premium is used to maximise this.
At the same time, however, we recognise that some pupils will be impacted more than others by the lockdown and any subsequent COVID-related absence from school. Through our thorough assessment processes and knowledge of the pupils we work with, we have identified the following pupil groups as areas for additional action:
Pupils currently in year 10 – who had only recently embarked on their GCSE courses
Pupils currently in year 7 – who had only just transitioned to secondary school and, specifically, those who would previously have benefited from the Literacy and Numeracy Catch-Up premium that has been discontinued
Pupils in year 6 – who were preparing for transition
To support these children and young people, the school will draw on evidence from the DfE and EEF that shows that the following strategies are likely to be the best use of this additional resource:
One to one and small group tuition
Intervention programmes
Extended school time
Summer support
It is important to note that the coronavirus has had a significant impact on the emotional wellbeing of our pupils and their families. Our response to this challenge is documented in our SEMH Recovery Plan and is not funded using the Catch-Up Premium.
A report on our summer school can be accessed here.