Pupil Premium

How we spend our pupil premium funding to make a high quality education a reality for all young people:

CAN Pupil Premium Strategy 2021-2022

Securing success for students

When students enter City Academy Norwich we make sure that we know and understand the starting points of their academic progress. We gain valuable information from their primary schools and carry out several important baseline assessments; for example, their reading ages.

The pupil premium is spent on ensuring all students are making progress in the key skills needed to succeed, and that they are properly prepared for the next stage of their education.

For students who enter the school with reading ages well below their chronological age, we deliver a personalised catch up programme. We use the Ruth Miskin and Accelerated Reader programmes.

We aim to get students to read for pleasure with our home learning policy and support from our Drop Everything And Read programme, which encourages parents and students to drop absolutely everything and pick up a book instead.

For students joining the school with lower than expected numeracy skills, we offer one-to-one and small group intervention programmes to ensure they rapidly improve in this area.

We pay for additional staffing to help us design learning which is personalised to the needs of individual and to groups of learners. For example, within English we implement programmes which build upon the high quality phonics work taught in our feeder primary schools.

A core team for each year group will intervene to ensure early identification and support for students who fall behind in core skills. Interventions include:

• Small group interventions
• One-to-one tuition
• Assertive mentoring
• Raising Attainment and Progress (RAP) programmes