Pupil Premium
The Pupil Premium at Haddenham St Mary’s CE School
What is Pupil Premium?
Pupil premium is funding to improve education outcomes for all disadvantaged pupils in schools in England. Evidence shows that disadvantaged children generally face additional challenges in reaching their potential at school and often do not perform as well as other pupils. Included in this umbrella is Service pupil premium which is not based on disadvantage but is additional funding for schools to support children of parents who serve in the armed forces, particularly for pastoral care. All schools are 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.
How is Pupil Premium funding spent?
School leaders are able to decide the best way to spend their pupil premium funding in order to achieve the best outcomes for all disadvantaged children in their school. Evidence suggests that it is most effective when used across 3 areas:
- high-quality teaching, such as staff professional development
- targeted academic support, such as tutoring
- wider strategies to address non-academic barriers to success in schools, such as attendance, behaviour, and social and emotional support
The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) recommends that schools particularly focus their pupil premium on supporting high-quality teaching. Pupil premium is not a personal budget for individual pupils, and schools are not required to spend all of their allocated grant on eligible pupils. They can use it wherever they identify the greatest need.
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, takes responsibility for accelerating their progress, and is held accountable for their achievements.
The impact of the pupil premium funding is 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.
To address the national trends and barriers to learning that disadvantaged children at Haddenham St Mary’s CE School may face, an annual Pupil Premium Strategy & Review is undertaken and published on the school website (as below).
When is the date of the next Pupil Premium Strategy Review?
Below is the Strategy Statement which was reviewed in November 2022. This statement will next be reviewed in Autumn 2023.
Pupil premium strategy statement Haddenham St Marys CE School November 2022
