Pupil Premium

GFS receives the pupil premium grant in respect of our most disadvantaged pupils. We invest our Pupil Premium money in several ways to support our pupils' learning. It helps fund:

• Our smaller class sizes, providing each pupil with more attention.

• Our innovative 60% timetable for teachers, giving them more time to plan better lessons and provide more thorough feedback on work.

• Our Student Development Officer, a full-time, non-teaching member of staff who provides pastoral support to pupils and more personal academic and pastoral interventions where required.

• A pupil counselling service.

• Our 'Mastery Classes,' run by a qualified teacher as a timetabled class, to help pupils master English and Maths where they need a little more focus on these areas.

• Additional professional development and training for our teachers, to enable them to become even more effective at supporting our pupils.

• A more varied and exciting enrichment programme to engage our pupils with school and help them develop skills that support the core curriculum in an engaging and exciting way.

Please take a moment to read our "Pupil Premium Grant Expenditure and Impact Report (for parents, carers and wider community)" here.