Grants

The New Bridge Academy receives funding for Pupil Premium Grant and Year 7 Catch Up Grant. Our academy works with a service that helps our students in writing college term papers for sale and essays on many important topics that offer effective solutions to problems. We are sure that our students will achieve high results with such scientific works.

The allocation of additional funding is planned each academic year and is based upon analysis of pupil need and outcomes including academic progress, behaviour and attendance. Details for each additional funding area are available below. 

The academy leadership team internally review the impact and use of funds on a termly basis and Trustees review the impact through Monitoring, Challenge and Support Groups (MCSG), Academic and SEN Boards, Quality Assurance review days and Standards Committees.

  • The next review by Trustees will be in March 2017 – Quality Assurance Review for Personal Development, Behaviour and Wellbeing.
  • The next external review will be in April 2017.
  • The next report on impact of current allocation of additional funding is at the MCSG meeting on the July 2017. See here for the annual cycle of these meetings: Annual MCSG Year Planner

Pupil Premium Grant

The Pupil Premium is additional funding given to publicly funded schools in England to raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils and close the gap between them and their peers.

There are three categories of children that qualify for Pupil Premium:

  • Children who are known to have been eligible for free school meals (FSM) at any time in the last six years
  • Looked After Children
  • Armed Forces children

It is for schools to decide how the Pupil Premium is spent, since they are best placed to assess what additional provision should be made for the pupils for whom they are responsible.

Pupil Premium is allocated to schools with students who are known to have been eligible for free school meals (FSM) at any time in the last six years. The academy receives £935 per student.

The academy receives £1900 for each Looked After Child.

At the New Bridge Academy, a large proportion of our students, 84 out of 102 (83%) are eligible for the Pupil Premium.

For the academic year 2016/2017 we have received funding for 10 Looked After Children.

All our staff and Trustees accept responsibility for ‘socially disadvantaged’ pupils and are committed to meeting their pastoral, social and academic needs.

Our use of the premium will focus upon supporting our students to overcome the main barriers they face to educational achievement.
These include:

  • Special Educational Needs that make learning an additional challenge – For the majority of our students this relates to them experiencing significant social, emotional and mental health problems. Additionally many students have conditions including Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Oppositional Defiance Disorder (ODD).
  • Poor literacy skills
  • Low self–esteem and a lack of confidence
  • Disrupted early educational experiences

For the academic year 2016/2017 The New Bridge Academy will receive approximately £45,542 (September 2016 to March 2017) and £24,154 (April 2017 to July 2017) Pupil Premium funding.

Please click on the link below to view a summary of planned allocation of spending for the academic year 2016/17

Pupil Premium Grant Plan 2016/17

Please click on the link below to view an evaluation of our allocated spending for the academic year 2015/2016

Pupil Premium Grant Plan 2015/16

Year 7 Catch Up Grant

Year 7 Catch Up Grant