Pupil Premium

At Livingstone Primary School, we want every child to leave us excited about learning, confident in their abilities, and ready for the next stage of their education. Strong Literacy and Numeracy skills, alongside resilience and self‑belief, are at the heart of this. Pupil Premium funding plays an important role in helping us achieve these goals.

We are committed to providing high‑quality teaching and support for all pupils, including those who may be more vulnerable or face additional challenges. This includes ensuring that socially disadvantaged pupils receive the right opportunities, resources, and encouragement to thrive.

Pupil Premium funding is used carefully and strategically to help eligible children reach their full potential — academically, socially, and emotionally. This may involve targeted teaching, additional support, enrichment opportunities, or resources that help remove barriers to learning.

Pupil Premium Expenditure  2025-26

The PP grant received is £67,360.

Objectives:

• To improve the standard of teaching and learning across the school so that all children, including those who qualify for PP, benefit from teaching of a high standard and this supports pupil progress. 
• To develop the curriculum further to ensure that all children, including those who qualify for PP, benefit from a well rounded and exciting curriculum. 
• To support the development of speech and language to improve communication.
• To support mental health and emotional wellbeing of pupils and ensure they are ready to learn.
• To improve attendance, punctuality and readiness to learn for all pupils.
• To support enrichment through visitors, visits and access to musical and cultural opportunities.
• To ensure that all children leave Livingstone with the skills needed to help them in the next phase of their education.

Summary of actions taken and planned:

• Curriculum development and training for leaders of foundation subjects in order to develop subject expertise to feed into developing teaching and learning across the school.
• Training for teachers to ensure quality first teaching.
• Resources to support the high quality teaching of Maths.
• Introduction of a spelling scheme that builds on our successful phonics scheme.
• Subject leader release time to enhance the development of the curriculum. 
• Assessment software and end of year tests to identify gaps and support quality first teaching.
• Learning Mentor to provide support for families and pupils.  This will include: supporting improved attendance and punctuality; supporting families when they need extra help; the development of children's social skills; support for schildren's emotional and mental wellbeing
• Attendance officer for the Mossley and Carrbrook Schools' Partnership to support attendance and punctuality.
• Speech and language specialist teacher to support early speech and language development and oracy.
• Training and networks for EYFS staff to improve practice ensuring we act early to close attainment gaps.   
• Intervention groups to support closing the gap and educational revovery.
• Widen the opportunities available to disadvantaged children through educational visits.  
• Extra nursery sessions for EYFS children.  

We will monitor the impact of this strategy through regular data analysis of children reaching age related expectations and the progress they are making.  We will analyse end of Key Stage SATs results to compare the performance of less advantaged pupils to other pupils.  We will internally review our pupil premium strategy at the start of each financial year and publish our Pupil Premium Impact report each September to reflect the impact of the use of the Pupil Premium over the previous academic year.   

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