Pupil Premium
The Pupil Premium at Haddenham St Mary’s CE School
The Pupil Premium is allocated to a school to support the education of children from low-income families who are eligible for free school meals (FSM) and children in Local Authority care. It was introduced in April 2011. The government extended eligibility for the Pupil Premium in 2012-13 to pupils who have been eligible for free school meals at any point in the last six years and to children of service families.
National Aims
The aims of this grant are to:
- Address inequalities
- Tackle disadvantage
- Reach those pupils who need it most
- Reduce the attainment gap and enable more pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds to get to top Universities
Pupil Premium at Haddenham St Mary’s
In financial year 2018/19, Haddenham St Mary’s received a pupil premium allocation of £10,860 for:
8 pupils @£1320 per pupil
1 pupil @£300
The calculation was based on the pupils who were on roll at Haddenham St Mary’s CE School on the day of the January 2018 census so includes children who have subsequently moved on to junior school.
Haddenham St Mary’s CE School Pupil Premium Strategy Statement
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HSM Pupil Premium Strategy 2018-2019
Planned/actual expenditure in FY18/19:
| Additional support allocation to accelerate progress | £4000 |
| Before and after school clubs | £2900 |
| School trips/visiting theatre groups etc | £500 |
| School uniform | £200 |
| Total | £7600 |
Our Key Priorities
On a continuous basis we look to address inequalities and tackle disadvantage by focusing on targeted additional support strategies resulting in every student, however financially disadvantaged, being able to:
- Improve their levels of attainment and progress
- Close attainment gaps relative to school averages
- Have full access to our curriculum
- Access our extra-curricular provision
The school regularly monitors and evaluates the impact on each student. Evaluation does not only focus on academic gains but also on how students’ self-confidence and engagement with the school has developed as a consequence.
Nature of the Support 2018/2019
An ongoing, careful analysis of the progress of individual students who attract Pupil Premium funding informs our spending decisions. Interventions and support have been targeted towards individual needs – to close specific learning gaps or to support improvements in attendance or behaviour.
Impact
| Before and after school clubs | Using pupil premium for before and after school clubs including Happy Hedgehogs has helped enrich the curriculum for children and helped to provide conditions under which children are engaged and ready to learn. |
| School trips | Using pupil premium for school trips and educational visits has helped to provide children with experiences that they may not encounter and thus has stimulated imagination which has further led to improved creativity in writing. |
| School uniform
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Using pupil premium for school uniform ensures the correct conditions in order for children to learn. Providing uniform ensures that there is no difference in appearance for those that may struggle to provide the correct uniform. It also promotes high self esteem which in turn aids academic progress. |
Termly case studies are carried out with each child in receipt of pupil premium to establish their need as are termly pupil progress meetings to establish any gaps in academic progress.
Impact of Pupil Premium Grant in terms of academic progress:
The children in receipt of pupil premium funding who are no longer at the school:
- All pupils reached a Good level of development in EYFS and then then all went onto meeting the expected or greater depth standard at the end of year 2.
The children in receipt of pupil premium funding who are still at the school:
- Due to such a small number of pupil premium children, publishing fine details about progress would make these children identifiable therefore this information is held in school. We can report that all of the children still at the school and in receipt of pupil premium made at least expected progress in all areas.
We carry out termly progress meetings to assess the needs of our Pupil Premium children and we monitor progress and attainment carefully.
