The Pupil Development Grant (PDG) is allocated to schools with pupils who come from low-income families and are currently known to be eligible for free school meals as reported in the January 2024 Pupil Level Annual Census (PLASC) return and pupils who have been looked after as reported in the April 2020 (LAC).

Schools are expected to make the best use of this funding to implement sustainable strategies that will quickly bring about changes for learners eligible for free school meals or who are YPLA.

As a school we have agreed the following three steps:

1. To identify the target group of pupils, its characteristics and needs;
2. To plan interventions which make the most effective use of resources;
3. To monitor and evaluate the impact of resources.

In 2024-25 Prendergast C.P. School has been provided with a PDG allocation of £42,550.

Prendergast C.P. School has developed a comprehensive plan, which will be agreed and monitored by Pembrokeshire Local Authority and Partneriaeth to promote progress and remove barriers to learning for students eligible for this funding.

The purpose of targeted and planned PDG interventions and strategies are to directly reduce the attainment gap between FSM and non-FSM pupils.  All interventions and activities will aim to improve literacy and numeracy; increase school attendance; improve the engagement with schools by families and communities.

Overall, the plan will seek to foster the value of learning across the school by working with pupils, families, schools and community, in a bid to improve aspiration and learning whilst working towards tackling poverty and provision gaps.  This can only be achieved through a cohesive and coordinated PDG Plan that is embedded and links with the School Development Plan.  This will be achieved through the delivery of clear interventions that are managed and resourced with robust monitoring and evaluation systems.

PDG Allocations for 2024-2025

Welsh Government Resources

Pupil Deprivation Grant Allocation 2024-2025

£31.050 PDG Allocation

£11,500 Early Years PDG Allocation

The Standards Grant

The aim of the funding is to improve educational outcomes for all learners and

reduce the impact of deprivation on learner outcomes by:

Improving the Quality of Teaching and Learning;

Addressing learners’ barriers to learning and improving inclusion;

Improving the leadership of educational settings; and

Improving the provision for learners and the engagement of learners.

This includes capacity building and increasing the number of learners with higher-

level Welsh language skills.

The Standards Grant will support the following strategic objectives:-

An excellent professional workforce with strong pedagogy based on an

understanding of what works

A curriculum which is engaging and attractive to young people and which

develops within them the ability to independently apply knowledge and skills

Qualifications which young people achieve that are nationally and

internationally respected and act as a credible passport to their future

learning and employment

Leaders of education at every level working together in a self-improving

system, providing mutual support and challenge to raise standards in all

schools

Qualified for Life seeks to ensure that all learners benefit from excellent teaching

and learning. These strategic objectives support ERW’s priorities of;

Improving Literacy

Improving Numeracy

Breaking the link between disadvantage and educational attainment

Furthermore, these measurable outcomes must:

Encompass all learners

Encompass learners in language settings

Encompass those belonging to recognised groups of learners where under

attainment is a significant concern, such as eFSM children, minority ethnic

groups or gypsy traveller children; and

Address the priorities of literacy, numeracy and breaking the link between deprivation and attainment. 

Standards Grant = £169, 641.00