Curriculum Summary

Our curriculum through years 7 – 13 is broad, balanced, relevant and differentiated, with its overall purpose being to create ambitious and capable learners who are ready to learn throughout their lives. Our curriculum covers 6 main areas of learning and experience helping to create healthy, confident, enterprising, creative, ethical and informed individuals who are ready to play a full part in life and work.

The 6 Areas of Learning and Experience are:
• Expressive arts
• Health and wellbeing
• Humanities
• Languages, literacy and communication
• Mathematics and numeracy
• Science and technology

Literacy, numeracy and digital competence are developed, and the Welsh dimension considered through all subject areas.
Each subject area has used the statements of what matters, principles of progression and descriptions of learning to inform their planning and curriculum development. Curriculum areas worked backwards from identifying the knowledge and skills that learners need to master in order to progress beyond age 16 and have developed appropriate programmes of study to support this.

Each curriculum area has developed curriculum related expectations that state clearly what is expected of learners at the end of years 7, 8 and 9. Following the introduction
of exam specifications in September 2024 curriculum areas will then develop these curriculum related expectations into years 10 and 11.

Alongside the subject knowledge and skills, each curriculum area will provide appropriate opportunities for learners to develop the cross curricular skills of literacy, numeracy and digital competency and will build authentic opportunities to develop the integral skills which are also central to Curriculum for Wales.

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Pupil Deprivation Grant Strategy Statement

From April 2024 the Welsh Government has restructured the grant system (Local Authority Education Grant) under four new elements; Standards, Equity, Reform and Cymraeg 2050. The Pupil Deprivation Grant is now know as Equity.

This statement details our school’s use of the PDG for the 2025 to 2026 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	Y Pant Comprehensive School
Number of pupils in school	1504 (inc. 261 in 6th form)
Proportion (%) of PDG eligible pupils	8.8% (Years 7-11)
Date this statement was published	14/10/25
Date on which it will be reviewed	14/10/26
Statement authorised by	Mrs B Cheetham
PDG Lead	Mr Joseph Young
Governor Lead	Mr Heather Johns

Funding Overview

Detail	Amount
PDG funding allocation this academic year	£118,450
Total budget for this academic year (including grants)	£8,786,000

Part A: Strategy Plan

Statement of Intent

Y Pant’s ambition is for every child to achieve a zero-residual based on the ambitious school set targets. In order to achieve this, we are committed to: Ensuring every eFSM learner has a literacy score commensurate with their chronological age Ensuring every eFSM learner has a numeracy score commensurate with their chronological age Ensuring every eFSM learner has access to bespoke wellbeing support Ensuring each eFSM learner has easy, free access to enrichment activities such as clubs and trips Ensuring each eFSM learner has a school based nominated champion to support them through their educational journey and to support families in raising aspirations for academic outcomes.

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
Improved literacy levels	eFSM learners to have a reading age in line with chronological age
Improved numeracy levels	eFSM learners to have a numerical age in line with chronological age
All eFSM learners to be happy in school and to attend regularly	All eFSM learners score 1’s and 2’s on the school wellbeing survey
Improved engagement (specifically in extra-curricular and enrichments activities)	All eFSM learners in Year 7 and 8 participate in school enrichment trips. Improved engagement of eFSM learners in extra-curricular clubs
All eFSM learners to have high expectations for themselves and of themselves	Increase in outcomes at KS4 and an increase in those continuing onto sixth form.

Activity in this academic year

This details how we intend to spend our PDG this academic year to address the challenges listed above.

Literacy and numeracy coach have been appointed to raise levels of literacy and numeracy. Suitable packages for delivery of these skills have been purchased. Our wellbeing officer will work directly with those who need it to improve levels of wellbeing. She will actively liaise with agencies should they be needed to promote the school’s vision of happy and healthy learners. An enrichment offer has been devised and offered to all pupils. The school will promote the participation of such activities through the school-based champions and departments identifying those who would benefit from them. The school has assigned a school-based champion for each eFSM family. Their primary aim will be to champion the family ensuring each pupil has the requisite support and opportunities within our school. Their aim is to promote the value of education and support young people and families into achieving their potential.

Learning and Teaching

Budgeted cost: £ 70K

Activity	Evidence that supports this approach
Literacy and Numeracy Coach	Literacy levels need aged 14+ to meaningfully access the GCSE papers. Numeracy levels need to be sufficiently strong to access all areas of the curriculum
Primary Transition	Two members of staff have timetabled lessons once a week in Llanhari and Llanharan primary schools, working with eFSM pupils on literacy and numeracy skills
Software and resources for delivery

Community Schools 

Budgeted cost: £ 30K

Activity	Evidence that supports this approach
Enrichment and extra-curricular opportunities	Raising cultural capital augments learning experiences and academic buy in.

Wider strategies (for example and where applicable, Health and Well-being, Curriculum and Qualifications, Leadership and Raising Aspirations)

Budgeted cost: £20K

Activity	Evidence that supports this approach
Wellbeing support	Data shows lack of engagement during the pandemic and greater level of absenteeism since returning to school.

Total budgeted cost: £ 120,000

Part B: Review of outcomes in the previous academic year

PDG outcomes

At GCSE, the Capped 9 score was 351.6 which compares favourably to the RCT eFSM total of 331.9 and the Wales eFSM total of 298.7

9.5% of eFSM learners achieved 5A*/As which compares favourably to the RCT total of 2.8%and the Wales total of 5% of eFSM learners.

At Key Stage 3, comparing STAR reading and STAR numeracy scores from the benchmark at the start of the year to scores at the end of the year, eFSM learners had made significant levels of progress against non-eFSM learners.

Externally provided programmes

Please include the names of any programmes that you purchased in the previous academic year. This will help us identify which ones are popular in Wales.

Programme	Provider
Non employed