Pupil Premium Strategy Statement 2025/26 - Plan

Sep 15, 2026

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Pupil premium strategy statement outlining how The Coopers’ Company and Coborn School will use pupil premium funding to raise attainment and close gaps for disadvantaged pupils. The plan sets school-wide priorities including quality first teaching, diagnostic assessment and adaptive, inclusive instruction supported by CPD and formative assessment approaches. It specifies key challenges (progress by gender, literacy, aspirations, curriculum access, well-being), measurable intended outcomes, and the academic-year spending budget, including CPD-led teaching actions and literacy catch-up interventions.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryResearch & Report

FormatPDF

Pages13

Reading Time33 min

AccessFree to download

School overview

Funding overview

Part A: Pupil premium strategy plan

Statement of intent

Challenges

Intended outcomes

Activity in this academic year

Pupil premium strategy statement This statement details our school’s use of pupil premium to help improve the attainment of our disadvantaged pupils. It outlines our pupil premium strategy, how we intend to spend the funding in this academic year and the effect that last year’s spending of pupil premium had within our school. School overview | Detail | Data | | --- | --- | | School name | The Coopers’ Company and Coborn School | | Number of pupils in school | 1569-Whole School 1057-Excluding Sixth Form | | Proportion (%) of pupil premium eligible pupils | 7.28% | | Academic year/years that our current pupil premium strategy plan covers (3-year plans are recommended) | We are currently in the second year of our 3-year plan 2024/25- 2027/28 | | Date this statement was published | 31st December 2025 | | Date on which it will be reviewed | 31st December 2026 | | Statement authorised by | Ms S Hay (Headteacher) | | Pupil premium lead | Mrs B Teece (Pupil Premium Champion with responsibility for Charity) | | Governor / Trustee lead | Ms C Day (Linked Governor for Pupil Premium and SEN) | Funding overview | Detail | Amount | | --- | --- | | Pupil premium funding allocation this academic year | £ 107,297 | | Recovery COVID funding allocation this academic year | £0 | | Pupil premium funding carried forward from previous years (enter £0 if not applicable) | £0 | Part A: Pupil premium strategy plan Statement of intent ● Our intention is that all pupils, irrespective of their background, or the challenges they face, make good progress and achieve academic excellence across the curriculum. ● Our focus on quality first teaching, reinforced by school-wide CPD aims to close the attainment gap in achievement, whilst also benefitting the non-disadvantaged pupils at our school. Our whole school approach will aim to ensure that all staff take responsibility for disadvantaged pupils’ outcomes and have a strong awareness of not only who those pupils are but also how our strategy is designed to support them and the role they play in implementing this strategy effectively. ● Via diagnostic assessment we intend to respond to individual pupil needs, deliver consistent challenges to all pupils regardless of prior attainment and to provide relevant and specific intervention when appropriate. Challenges This details the key challenges to achievement that we have identified among our disadvantaged pupils. | Challenge number | Detail of challenge | | --- | --- | | 1 | Close the progress and attainment gap between boys and girls with a particular focus on disadvantaged pupils’ underachievement. | | 2 | Improving literacy levels across the school | | 3 | Raising aspirations of students with no family history of university education. | | 4 | Implementing adaptive teaching to ensure greater access to the curriculum for all | | 5 | Well-being of pupils | 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. | Intended outcome | Success criteria | | --- | --- | | Reintroducing CPD into the school with a focus on adaptive teaching and learning. Increased pupil participation in lessons and breaking down barriers to learning through adapted resources and tasks.
All teaching staff engage in mandatory CPD and study skills workshops relating to quality first teaching to address the areas identified as presenting the greatest barriers to students achieving their highest potential in the classroom. Staff will be well equipped to identify and address these barriers.
‘Embedding Formative Assessment’provided by SSAT as recommended by the EEF, forms the basis of CPD. | ● Use of a shared approach across the school regarding the use of adapted resources as evidenced in department SIPs.
● On learning walks and peer lesson observations, seeing evidence of high expectations being established/ maintained/reinforced.
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FAQs

What is the purpose of the pupil premium strategy statement?

It explains how the school will use pupil premium funding to improve attainment for disadvantaged pupils, including how funds will be spent in the current academic year and the impact of previous spending.

Which key challenges does the school target for disadvantaged pupils?

The strategy targets progress and attainment gaps by gender, improving literacy, raising aspirations for pupils without a university-family background, implementing adaptive teaching for curriculum access, and supporting pupils’ well-being.

How will the school measure whether the intended outcomes are achieved?

Success criteria include evidence from CPD engagement, learning walks and observations, summative assessment progress tracking (including literacy-linked testing), GCSE results, student and parent voice, and qualitative indicators of well-being.

Sep 15, 2026

Uploaded by Connor