Pupil Premium budget is additional funding given to schools to support scholars on Free School Meals, Looked After Children and those children whose parents serve in the Armed Forces. Schools must report how they have used the pupil premium and the impact it has had on pupil progress.

To find out more about Pupil Premium and how to apply, please click here.

Reasons for the Pupil Premium:

  • Created to tackle ‘educational inequality’
  • Allocated to schools ‘in addition’ to their budget
  • Funding to tackle educational gaps caused by disadvantage, allowing schools to reach the scholars that need it most
  • A good education is the key to improving life chances

Schools are encouraged by the Department for Education to use the money to ‘narrow the gap’ in attainment between scholars in receipt of Free School Meals or those who are ‘Looked After’ as nationally there is a disparity between their attainment at GCSE and their peers.

The money is being used to help raise academic achievement as well as improve interactive and social skills.

Please click the following link to view our Longsands Pupil Premium Strategy 2024-25

A link to our Ofsted reports can be found here

Parent View

Ofsted operates a facility called Parent View for parents to share their views on the provision offered by schools. We would encourage you, please, to take a moment to register on the site and provide your comments about the College. Parent View has replaced the paper questionnaires that inspectors used to circulate at the time of a school inspection to gather parents’ views.

To complete the short questionnaire please visit http://parentview.ofsted.gov.uk.  You will be asked to provide an email address and choose a password when you register. Once your login has been activated, it only takes a few minutes to choose answers to 12 short questions about the school, such as how well we deal with bullying, the quality of teaching, whether the level of homework given to your child is appropriate, and whether you would recommend the school to other parents.

As well as informing Ofsted inspectors, it is also useful for us because it gives valuable information about what you think of the school and helps us to improve.

Please remember, you can give your opinion of your child’s school through Parent View at any time during the school year. At the time of an inspection, you can resubmit your views and the facility will overwrite your previous response so that only one ‘view’ for each parent, per school, is held.

For information on results, please click below:

https://www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk/school/136992/longsands-academy/secondary