About Us

Pupil Premium, Sport Premium and 16-19 Tuition Fund

Pupil Premium and Sport Premium

We ensure that teaching and learning opportunities meet the needs of all of the pupils irrespective of their ability, gender or socio-economic background. We ensure that appropriate provision is made for pupils who belong to vulnerable groups, this includes ensuring that the needs of socially disadvantaged pupils are adequately assessed and addressed.

We reserve the right to allocate the Pupil Premium funding to support any pupil or groups of pupils the school has legitimately identified as being socially disadvantaged.

Principles

• At Treloar School, we ensure that teaching and learning opportunities meet the needs of all of the pupils irrespective of their ability, gender or socio-economic background.
• We ensure that appropriate provision is made for pupils who belong to vulnerable groups, this includes ensuring that the needs of socially disadvantaged pupils are adequately assessed and addressed.
• We recognise that not all pupils who receive free school meals will be socially disadvantaged or qualify for free school meals.

We reserve the right to allocate the Pupil Premium funding to support any pupil or groups of pupils the school has legitimately identified as being socially disadvantaged.

The 16-19 Tuition Fund 2021-2022 Academic Year

Treloar School and College are applying for access to the 16-19 Tuition Fund. This fund can be used to source appropriate interventions to enable learners with SEND to re-engage with learning and to interact with others. As a specialist residential school and college all our students have an EHCP to meet their complex medical and educational needs.

During the pandemic, students continued to access their formal education through online or remote learning. The area that was the most difficult to reproduce was social interaction and opportunities for the development of independence and collaborative skills. This hiatus in education has had a detrimental effect on our students’ social skills, communication, confidence and progression towards independence.

We plan to use the fund in a variety of innovative ways:

• Increase in community based learning to support independence.
• Specialist well-being and holistic activities delivered within each specialist tutor group.
• Supporting a proportion of the costs for our first annual residential trips for students across school and college with a range of needs and group sizes between 6 and 10 students. These opportunities will help learners recover lost skills, behaviours and confidence which have been impacted on by the pandemic and the necessary social isolation for students with complex medical needs who were often shielding.

Having reviewed the impact of Covid-19 on our learners and together with feedback from the Student School and College Councils it is very clear that students have had reduced opportunities to develop their social communication and interaction skills and to access the community. These skills are critical to their independence, employability and future success. Increased exposure to generalising these skills will have a positive impact on their transition to adulthood.

For those that would not benefit from a residential learning experience, we plan to use the fund to source specialist external agencies to work on site in Sixth Form classes and College once a week to develop skills in the following areas: using the medium of Art, Dance, Drama, Music, STEM and Sport.

These activities will take place on a rotational basis. (PSED) Personal, social, emotional development and communication skills will be baselined at the start of the course, confidence and social interaction will be evaluated at the end of the course and re-visited three months later and learner and family surveys will be utilised to assess the impact and efficacy of the provision.

To support the above increased community based and well-being activities we will identify a range of college tutor groups that would benefit from a portion of the funding up to 13 tutor groups of 7 students.