Pupil Premium Strategy
Pupil Premium Funding at Huncoat Primary School.
Pupil Premium funding is additional funding given to schools to support pupils who are eligible. There are a variety of reasons why your child may be entitled to this funding which includes:
- If they are on Free School Meals or have been at any point in the last 6 years
- If they are a Looked After Child (in the care of the Local Authority)
- If they have previously been a Looked After Child and are now adopted from care or are under a Special Guardianship Order or a Child Arrangements Order or a Residence Order
- If they have a parent in the military or has been in the military over the past 5 years or are in receipt of a child pension from the Ministry of Defence
Government Funding:
- Primary pupils: £1,345
- Secondary pupils: £955
- Looked-after children: £2,345
- Children who have ceased to be looked-after: £2,345
- Service children: £310
Our final pupil premium funding for 2021-22 is £105,910 plus we are allocated £145 x 57 pupils approx. at £8265 for covid top up funding
Our final pupil premium funding for 2020-21 is: £115,800
Our final pupil premium funding for 2019-20 is: £96,960
Our final pupil premium funding for 2018-19 is: £96,660
Pupil Premium Statement & Review 2021-22
Pupil Premium Statement 2020-21
Pupil Premium Statement 2019 - 20
The pupil premium is required to be used to support improving outcomes for pupils who may be disadvantaged and to close the gap in pupil achievement between identified cohorts.
A summary of the main barriers to educational achievement faced by eligible pupils of the school :
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Speech and Language in the Early Years is lower than national
- Pupil Premium children come into the Early Years lower than Age Range Expectations
- A percentage of Pupil Premium children come into school lower than their peers and the gaps aren't closing
- Issues such as Mental Health/Behaviour/ Esteem/ Social skills that stop a percentage of Pupil Premium children achieving
Other barriers include:
- ACE's (adverse childhhod experiences) from within the home environment
- low attendance and persistent absentees
- high levels of mobility within school
At Huncoat we are using our Pupil Premium to :
- To close the gaps between PP children and non PP in reading/ writing and numeracy
- To offer experiences and opportunities for PP children – in return this has an impact on writing and reading inference
- To provide PP children who are also GRT with extra support in Reading & Maths to close the gaps
- To close the gaps between PP and non PP within speech and language in the Early Years
- To offer PP who struggle with social, emotional, behaviors to learning - opportunities to feel safe/ be listened to through wellbeing sessions/ social skills/ behaviour strategies - so they can learn and access learning to the very best
- To support children with behaviours that stop access to learning
- To close the gaps within phonics for the Early Years/ Yr1-2 and continue any support into Yr3-4
- To pay for Pupil Support Officer through attendance to ensure PP have 96%+ attendance
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To address mental health needs within our children
