Pupil Deprivation Grant

Ysgol y Grango Schools’ Pupil Development Grant Statement 2024/2025

The purpose of the Pupil Development Grant is to improve the educational attainment and achievements of pupils who are entitled to free school meals (eFSM).

 

WG Definition 2018 – The PDG should be used to support the needs of all children who are or have been eFSM in the previous two years or are looked after. The PDG is intended to provide support to disadvantaged learners to overcome the additional barriers that prevent those from disadvantaged backgrounds achieving their full potential.’

As a school, we will implement the PDG to:

  • Develop early literacy and numeracy approaches
  • Support all eligible learners, including those who are MAT.
  • Forensically track pupils, identify underachievement and use robust intervention strategies.
  • Place a high priority on teaching and learning, quality feedback and metacognition
    Ensure support staff are highly trained and clearly identify the provision they are leading on
  • Target Early Intervention Strategies with at least 60% of secondary schools’ PDG to be invested in key stage 3 learners.
  • Develop effective systems and processes for tracking pupil’s progress
  • Ensure that all PDG statements are published (school website or forwarded to GwE).

Funding Uses

  • Develop new attendance and engagement strategies
  • Cohesion and support for transition from KS2-3
  • Additional staff in core to facilitate smaller teaching groups to benefit eFSM.

 

In 2024-2025 Ysgol y Grango School were allocated a total Pupil Development Grant of £218,500.

 

Ysgol y Grango School has reference to PDG in the annual SDP as a vehicle for planning or a comprehensive plan, agreed and monitored by GwE and Wrexham Local Authority.

 

It is not appropriate for the school to publish a detailed plan as it could identify individual pupils.

Free School Meals

Your child is eligible to receive free school meals (in maintained schools in Wales) if you or your child receive the following:

  • Income Support (IS)*
  • Income Based Jobseekers Allowance (IBJSA)*
  • Support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
  • Income-related Employment Support Allowance (IR)
  • Child Tax Credit – providing you’re not entitled to Working Tax Credit with an annual total income below the HMRC set limit
  • Guarantee element of State Pension Credit
  • Working Tax Credit ‘run-on’ – the payment someone may receive for a further four weeks after they stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit
  • Universal Credit – if you are working you must be earning less than £7,400 per year (£616.67 per month) to qualify for free school meals

Transitional Protection

If we identify that your circumstances have changed and your child is no longer eligible under the main scheme, they will still be eligible for free meals under the transitional protection scheme.

 

This scheme means that your child would receive free meals under the transitional rule until December 31, 2023 or until the end of their current phase of education. If your child gets free meals under transitional protection, this would mean that they would be ineligible for other things such as the School Essentials Grant.

 

Universal Primary Free School Meals

All primary pupils in years 3 – 6 are entitled to Universal Primary Free School Meals. For your child to get their free school meals you will need to book using the ParentPay website (external link). You can find out more about registering with ParentPay on our ‘Pay for school meals’ page.