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 2020/21, Haddenham St Mary’s received a pupil premium allocation of £10,760 for:
8 pupils @£1345 per pupil
The calculation was based on the pupils who were on roll at Haddenham St Mary’s CE School on the day of the January 2020 census so includes children who have subsequently moved on to junior school. We currently (Jan 2021) have 10 pupils on roll who are eligible for Pupil Premium funding.
Haddenham St Mary’s CE School Pupil Premium Strategy Statement
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HSM Pupil Premium Strategy 2020-2021
The strategy is reviewed annually, by the end of each Autumn term
Planned/actual expenditure in FY20/21:
| Additional support allocation to accelerate progress | £12,900 |
| Before and after school clubs | £717 |
| School trips/visiting theatre groups etc | £0 |
| School uniform | £760 |
| Total | £14,377 |
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 2020/2021
Each child has a Pupil Premium Provision map which outlines academic targets, interventions and the number of hours support per week they will receive. Class teachers meet with the pupil premium coordinator each term to review the provision map. An ongoing, careful analysis of the progress of individual students who receive 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. Other expenditure, for example wrap around care, uniform is provided on a needs basis.
During the current Covid-19 Pandemic, many of the pupil premium children are currently working remotely (Jan 2020), therefore some actions on the provision map are not easily deliverable. For the children who are in school, their ‘Bubble Leaders’ are following their provision map and they are receiving the planned interventions/support. Pupil Premium children who are remote learning are also receiving 1:1 weekly reading via teams, offers of resource packs to be delivered weekly, the £15 food voucher and other supporting strategies appropriate to the child. Teachers are calling PP families each week to check what support is most needed that week and tailoring it to the child’s and family’s individual needs.
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. |
Impact of Pupil Premium Grant in terms of academic progress:
There is no EYFS/KS1 data for 2019/2020 due to Covid-19 so we are unable to report on attainment and progress. The allocation of support and interventions using Teaching Assistant hours on individual Pupil Provision Maps was seen to be having a significant positive impact on closing the gap for PP pupils before school moved to keyworker and vulnerable provision. We will ensure we continue to meet the children’s needs as best we can as the situation evolves.
The children in receipt of pupil premium funding who are no longer at the school:
- Due to the small number of PP pupils and current GDPR guidelines, we are unable to publish this data on our website as pupils may be identifiable.
The children in receipt of pupil premium funding who are still at the school:
- Due to the small number of PP pupils and current GDPR guidelines, we are unable to publish this data on our website as pupils may be identifiable.
We carry out termly progress meetings to assess the needs of our Pupil Premium children and we monitor progress and attainment carefully and review their provision maps accordingly.
