Pupil Premium
The Pupil Premium at Haddenham St Mary’s CE School
What is Pupil Premium?
The Government has allocated a specific grant to every school which is known as Pupil Premium. This first began in 2011-12. The Government believes that the Pupil Premium, which is additional to main school funding, is the best and most effective way to address the current underlying inequalities between children eligible for Free School Meals (FSM) during the last 6 years (known as the Ever 6 FSM measure) and those who aren’t by ensuring that funding reaches the pupils who need it the most. All schools will be held accountable for how they have used the Pupil Premium funding and the impact it has had on the children’s learning.
What is Pupil Premium Plus?
The pupil premium plus (PP+) for children in care (LAC) is additional funding for schools to support and help raise their educational attainment and progress. The Virtual School devolves this funding to schools, and works with designated teachers, social workers and carers to target and utilise this funding effectively.
Why is there a Pupil Premium?
Students who have been eligible for Free School Meals at any point in their school career, according to National trends, have consistently lower educational attainment than those who have never been eligible. To address the national trends and barriers to learning that disadvantaged children at Haddenham St Mary’s CE School (HSM) may face, an annual Pupil Premium Strategy & Review is implemented. Children for whom we receive pupil premium funding for are referred to as ‘disadvantaged’ by the government and this funding is provided to close the achievement gap between this group and their peers.
How will the impact of the Pupil Premium funding be measured?
We recognise that quality first teaching is the best provision we can make to raise achievement and this is closely monitored using a triangulation monitoring process through scrutiny of data, lesson observations and book scrutiny for our pupil premium children on a regular basis. Every teacher is aware of the disadvantaged children in their class in receipt of the Pupil Premium funding and takes responsibility for accelerating their progress, and is held accountable for their achievements.
The impact of the pupil premium funding will be closely monitored throughout the academic year and at half termly progress reviews. Impact will be measured based on the triangulation process. Teachers will present evidence of the impact that the Pupil Premium Strategy targets on their provision maps have had on children’s learning.
Pupil premium provision maps are used in the monitoring process to evaluate the cost effectiveness of interventions given to disadvantaged pupils and support them in closing any gaps in their learning. Support for each child is personalised with carefully planned personalised learning as part of wave 1 quality first teaching and personalised planning for interventions in order to accelerate progress.
When is the date of the next Pupil Premium Strategy Review?
In September 2019, schools were encouraged to move away from full annual reviews and instead consider a multi-year strategy for pupil premium use, with light touch annual reviews that will continue to form the school’s pupil premium statement. Based on this guidance the date of the next Pupil Premium Strategy Review will be December 2022 (light touch).
Below is the Strategy Statement which was reviewed November 2021.
