Objective

The ultimate objective of our Pupil Development Grant is to reduce the impact of low-income households on learners’ educational outcomes and wellbeing, ensuring that all pupils, regardless of socio-economic background, are able to:

-Make strong progress in learning, particularly in literacy, numeracy and digital competence

-Develop the confidence, resilience and independence needed to engage fully in learning

-Experience a sense of belonging and inclusion within the school community

-work towards achieving the four purposes of the Curriculum for Wales.

The school is committed to ensuring that pupils eligible for PDG have equitable access to high-quality teaching, targeted support, enrichment opportunities and pastoral care, enabling them to reach their full potential.

How the PDG Plan Works Towards These Objectives

The school’s PDG strategy is needs-led, evidence-informed and closely aligned with the School Development Plan (SDP) and self-evaluation processes.

Key features of the strategy include:

• Teaching and interventions across the school being consistently high quality, inclusive and adaptive, ensuring that all learners—particularly those supported through PDG—make strong progress from their starting points and that attainment gaps are narrowed over time.
• The strategy is reviewed regularly to ensure that funding is used flexibly and responsively to meet changing learner needs.
• Targeted interventions based on robust assessment and tracking, focusing on: Early literacy and numeracy development, closing attainment gaps supporting engagement and attendance, pastoral and wellbeing support, ensuring barriers related to emotional wellbeing, behaviour, attendance or family circumstances are identified early and addressed effectively
• Close monitoring and evaluation, using data, learner voice and wellbeing indicators to measure impact and adjust provision where necessary

Our PDG allocation for 2025-2026:

What we plan to spend our PDG allocation on for 2025-2026:

-Provision of a Learning Support Assistant in Year 5/6

-Provision of a Learning Support Assistant in Year 3/4

-Provision of a Learning Support Assistant to deliver targeted interventions across the 3–8 phase

-Provision of an LSA to deliver targeted nurture interventions including ELSA and Unearthing

-Purchasing of whole school resources to support the curriculum