Bedwas High School

PDG/EIG Spend

Pupil Development Grant School Statement

This statement details our school’s use of the PDG for the 2024 to 2025 academic year.

It outlines our strategy, how we intend to spend the funding in this academic year and the

effect that last year’s spending had within our school.

School Overview

Detail	Data
School name	Bedwas High School
Number of learners in school	688
Proportion (%) of PDG eligible learners	33.9%
Date this statement was published	December 2024
Date on which it will be reviewed	April 2025
Statement authorised by	Stephen Diehl
PDG Lead	Stephen Diehl
Governor Lead	David Davies

Funding Overview

Detail	Amount
PDG funding allocation this academic year	£264,500
Total budget for this academic year	£264,500

Part A: Strategy Plan

Statement of intent

IA1

IA2

IA3

Focus on further enhancing and developing standards and progress in skills for all pupils across the school

Focus on improving the quality and consistency of teaching and learning experiences across the school

Focus on further developing the care, support and guidance provide to pupils and staff, through development of wellbeing and ALN systems and procedures to ensure that the needs of all learners are catered for and that the school is fully inclusive

Focus on reviewing and developing leadership roles, responsibilities and self-evaluation systems and process to ensure all learners receive the best provision, while providing value for money

Intended outcomes

This explains the outcomes we are aiming for by the end of our current strategy plan, and

how we will measure whether they have been achieved.

Intended outcome	Success criteria
Improve reading ages and outcomes for eFSM pupils	Improvement of reading ages and CP9 outcomes in line with targeted data; reduction in gap between eFSM and nFSM pupils
Improve attendance and engagement of eFSM pupils	Reduce rate of exclusions, persistence absence among eFSM pupils; reduce gap in attendance of eFSM and nFSM pupils
Improve support and provision for eFSM pupils	Provision and support available, including intervention is targeted to eFSM learners

Activity in this academic year

This details how we intend to spend our PDG this academic year to achieve the intended

outcomes listed above

Teaching and learning

Budget- £66091

Develop and embed consistent approaches to delivery, Tracking and monitoring of Skills Provision (Literacy/Numeracy) across the school (SDP 1.1 2024/25)	Leader of learning for Numeracy - £10,650
	Leader of learning for Literacy - £11,028
	Literacy interventions - £23,596
	Testing - £3,552
	Homework club - £3,776
	Literacy/Numeracy resources - £13,489

Community Focused to include: building strong partnerships with families, responding to the needs of the community

Budget - £29,380

Develop and embed consistent approaches to delivery, Tracking and monitoring of Skills Provision (for EFSM through RADY) across the school (SDP 1.1 2024/25)	Contribution towards Trips/activities – £6,147
	Purchase of uniform and related items - £800
	Access to curriculum - £6,755
	Faculty bids for access to curriculum - £15,678

Wider strategies to include whole school approaches, curriculum and qualifications

Budget - £169,029

Develop and embed consistent approaches to delivery, Tracking and monitoring of Skills Provision (for EFSM through RADY) across the school (SDP 1.1 2024/25)	Leader of learning for EFSM/Rady = £9,024
	Rady Coaching = £438
Continue to review and adapt the whole school pastoral and wellbeing systems to promote and support positive pupil behaviour and reduce exclusions (31. SDP 2024/25)	Behaviour Manager – £39,416
	Ready 2 Learn provision - £33,237
	Leadership capacity – £8,916
	Pass survey – £1,840
	External Interventions (Baxter Project/Flourish - £4,810
	Rewards – £10,321
Review and further develop the systems and procedures in place to enhance Pupil attendance and reduce levels of persistent absenteeism (3.2 SDP 2024/25)	Attendance Manager – £38,855
	Persistent lateness support - £2,760
	Attendance administrator - £19,412

Part B: Review of outcomes in the previous academic year

PDG outcomes

This details the impact that our PDG activity had on pupils in the 2023 to 2024 academic

year.

Activity	Impact
Leaders of Learning for EDSM/MAT	eFSM outcomes generally in-line with predictions and target grades
Access to curriculum for EFSM Leaners	Increased engagement, attendance and outcomes – in-line with predictions
Closing the Gap funding for Faculties	Increased engagement of eFSM pupils in faculty activities including school production, trips and cooking
Literacy and numeracy intervention for identified students	Targeted catch-up for vulnerable pupils to maximise NNT and NRT scores
Attendance Manager and support interventions	Attendance of eFSM pupil increased
Behaviour Manager and support interventions	Engagement with programme increased, however exclusions for eFSM did not decrease