Pupil Premium

At The Giles Nursery and Infants’ School, we recognise that children face many barriers to learning. We are committed to ensuring that these barriers are removed so that all children make good progress. How we use our Pupil Premium funding is an integral part of this. We have identified the following barriers to learning as being most relevant to our disadvantaged pupils:

• Communication, speech and language skills, particularly in Reception at the start of a child’s school life.
• Multiple vulnerabilities; for example, children with English as an additional language (EAL) and children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). 
• Poor social skills, behavioural issues, low self-esteem or poor mental health, which can hinder development and learning.
• Lower than average baselines in reading, writing and mathematics on entry.
• High mobility of pupils (moving in and out of the area more frequently than usual).
• Below average attendance rates.
• Challenging home learning environment where there may be a lack of books, internet or communication / literacy support owing to language barriers.
• Little or no access to wider cultural opportunities

We use our Pupil Premium funding to address these barriers. For our detailed annual plan and review please click on the link below.

Sports Premium

We are a Sports Premium partner school of the Stevenage Sporting Futures Team. Our collaborative partnership enables us to offer our pupils a fully inclusive variety of sporting experiences, festivals and competitions.

We use our Sports Premium funding to provide high-quality extracurricular physical activities to encourage a lifelong healthy lifestyle. We provide targeted support through our sports apprentices, who provide a wide range of opportunities for children to participate in active play, outdoor learning, extracurricular clubs and to deliver identified school improvement targets through specific interventions.

For our detailed annual plan and review please click on the link below.

The Daily Mile

2024-25 is the eighth year that children at our school have participated in The Daily Mile. This has been a fantastic initiative to encourage children to take part in physical exercise and inspire them to make healthy life choices. The Daily Mile involves walking, jogging or running every day for about ten minutes. The aim of The Daily Mile is not only to improve children’s fitness levels, but also raise their self-esteem, increase their resilience and improve their concentration in the classroom. We have seen a change in attitude with children displaying enthusiasm and excitement when they understand they are making their bodies stronger.