Victoria C P School, Wrexham – Pupil Deprivation Grant Statement

The purpose of the Pupil Deprivation Grant is to improve the educational attainment of pupils from low income families and who are entitled to free school meals (eFSM). Schools are expected to maximise the use of this funding by introducing sustainable strategies which will quickly lead to improved outcomes for pupils entitled to free school meals.

As a school, we want to learn from the best practice in Wales and beyond by:

1. planning interventions that focus on improving the attainment of pupils from deprived backgrounds, regularly monitoring pupils’ progress and evaluating the impact of the intervention.
2. integrating plans for the effective use of the PDG into the School Development Plan, basing our practice on sound evidence and including them as part of a whole school strategy.
3. balancing whole school strategies with targeted interventions to ensure that all learners entitled to free school meals benefit as individuals, whilst the whole school also develops its ability to support every learner to achieve their full potential.

In 2018-19 Victoria C P School was allocated a total Pupil Deprivation Grant of £74.300.

Victoria C P School has a comprehensive plan, agreed and monitored by GwE and Wrexham Local Authority, to promote high expectations attainment and progress and to remove barriers to learning for pupils entitled to this funding.

We have used the funding to:

Provide additional teacher and teaching assistant time to focus on specific pupil support, to support outdoor learning in Foundation Phase, early intervention in Nursery and Reception and booster groups in the Infant and Junior Departments.

To provide extra resources for targeted support for pupils.

To provide staff to run the successful Families Connect Group encouraging families to participate in the life of their children at school.

To provide staff with extra training in relation to school priorities and raising standards of all pupils.

To continue extra music provision within the school.

Mrs Andrea Hilditch who created the wonderful piece of art work also made us this beautiful tile for school!

 

We had a lovely evening at All Saints’  Church last night to celebrate the wonderful art project between Andrea Hilditch, the church and Victoria CP School. The piece of work is now installed and looks absolutely beautiful. I want to say thank you to Andrea and Father Sam for involving our pupils in the project.

Our choir took part and sang wonderfully as usual and we had representatives from all classes who were specifically chosen by their teachers.

Andrea has presented school with a lovely plaque and book – please pop in to see them!

It was a lovely night.

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Our 30 day challenge returning to school next week will be excellent dinner hall behaviour. We want to encourage all children:

• to walk sensibly in to the dinner hall
• to talk sensibly at the dinner table
• to try and use a knife and fork correctly
• not to leave the hall still eating
• to tidy up after themselves
• not to swap food – this has serious implications due to food allergies

Your support is greatly appreciated, thank you.

Mrs Eccles

What a fantastic response to World Book Day this year. We were amazed at some of the clever and original ideas created by the children – well done!

Our Foundation Phase Winners:

Our Junior Winners:

We had a fantastic time at Cardiff again this year. Children were brilliantly behaved and thoroughly enjoyed all the venues and activities. Da iawn pawb!

 

Our pupils had an amazing time at Glan Llyn this year and lots of comments were made about their outstanding behaviour. Not only that, staff at the centre were very impressed with the Welsh language used by all our children over the three days. Da iawn pawb!