Woodlands School

Pupil Premium

Woodlands Pupil Premium Strategies

Woodlands school uses its Pupil Premium grant in a creative way to best meet the varied needs of children and young people in this group. We have chosen to focus on making a difference to the individual child where this can have the greatest impact. The funding is used primarily to provide the services of specialists such as an Independent Social Worker and an occupational therapist. The specialist knowledge of such colleagues is then used in a multi-agency way with staff, families and children themselves to identify the root causes of difficulties. This can take some time and often requires intensive work. The curriculum leaders and senor leadership team review the progress of children in receipt of Pupil Premium grant support on a regular basis to ensure that the spending is having a positive effect.

We also creatively use our Sports Premium grant for supporting children to access physical activity from the most fundamental of bases. For some pupils, developing their stamina and oxygen uptake is essential for promoting good learning. We believe in using the grant to facilitate healthy lives and this may be in the form of physical adventurous play or activity. Blending learning with physical activity and sport has been highly effective for a number of our learners. We bring in coaches with more expertise than we have to enrich the experiences of pupils and to support our teachers' professional development. We also use the funding to offer free and subsidised after school and holiday sport activities for all our pupils to access.

We ensure that service children get a similar support level to others in receipt of pupil premium as we understand that many of their difficulties result from the challenges of discontinuous home life experiences.

The documents below give details of our Pupil Premium and Sports Premium spending and the impact it has had on children's learning. All evaluations of our previous year's plans and forward spending plans for the following year are undertaken in April annually.

Pupil Premium Reports

Pupil Premium Strategy for 2025-2028

Pupil Premium Strategy for 2022-2025

Pupil Premium Strategy for 2021-2024

Sports Premium Reports

PE and Sport Premium Grant - Funding Allocation 24-25

PE and Sport Premium Grant - School Specifics 24-25

PE and Sport Premium Grant - Spending 24-25

PE and Sport Premium Grant - Outcomes 24-25

PE and Sport Premium Grant - Declarations 24-25

Woodlands PE and Sport Premium Report - March 2025

PE and Sport Premium Report - March 2024