Closing The Gap Funding
What is the Pupil Premium?
The Pupil Premium is additional funding to help schools close the attainment gap between children from low-income and other disadvantaged families and their peers. If a child has been eligible for free school meals (FSM) at any point over the past 6 years or has been looked after for one day or more (Looked After Child), the school receives an amount per head within their budget. A provision is also made for children who have a parent in the armed services.
Rationale
Hope School is determined to ensure that all children achieve and are given the highest standards of teaching and learning through delivering Quality First Teaching (QFT). Additionally, that focussed support and pastoral care outside of QFT is given to children that require it so that they can achieve their full potential.
We believe the benefits provided by the extra funding should be available to all our children within school who could be considered to be vulnerable irrespective of whether they receive Pupil Premium funding. It should be noted that the children identified as requiring the additional levels of support are not necessarily those who fulfil the above criteria and upon which the school receives the Pupil Premium funding. There is no expectation that all Pupil Premium children will receive identical support; indeed the allocation of budget for each child feeds into the schools budget for pupil premium, rather being ring fenced for an individual child. Some children will need more than others and each child is individual with individual circumstances. The school considers how to allocate pupil premium money on an annual basis following rigorous data analysis and careful consideration of the needs of the children within this group.
The Action Plan for Pupil Premium spending focuses on whole-school strategies that impact all pupils, strategies that target under-performing pupils, and specific strategies targeting pupil premium pupils. We have a clear, strategic approach to the use of Pupil Premium funding, and plans are integrated into wider school support and improvement systems. These are monitored and evaluated regularly and in depth data analysis ensures that the correct support and strategies are identified to maximise progress.
Strong leadership ensures that Pupil Premium funding has the necessary impact on achievement, attendance and pastoral care. This includes an identified governor having responsibility for Pupil Premium, the Head of Personal Development, Behaviour and Welfare and Assistant Head teachers leading the development plan, and a coordinated wider disseminated leadership approach to implementing plans. All matters relating to the Pupil Premium are reported back to Governors, ensuring that the school is held to account for the impact of spending. Ensuring all staff takes responsibility for Pupil Premium actions enables school to develop a strong, comprehensive and sustainable support package which leads to improvements in outcomes for all children.
Pupil Premium Action Plan 2024-2025 | |
Total: £86,000 | |
Barriers specific to the school | |
A: The majority of PP children entering school struggle to understand their own mental health and to show socially appropriate behaviour. B: The majority of PP children entering school have gaps in their education attainment and progress. C: The majority of pupils entitled to pupil premium have poor fine or gross motor skills reducing access to the curriculum. | |
Actions/ Barriers Speech and Language Therapy (SALT) SALT supports pupils with a range of needs such as difficulty communicating, eating, drinking, swallowing, problems with speech or slow speech develop. Sessions support pupils to find strategies to help them communicate and manage everyday task more easily.
Primitive Reflexes Primitive Reflexes supports pupils who have gaps in their infant movement patterns. Pupils complete movements unique to their individual needs called Rhythmic Movement Training during either 1:1 or group interventions. These interventions support pupils with establishing lifelong reflexes.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) CBT supports pupils to make sense of overwhelming problems by breaking them down in to smaller parts. pupils access sessions with a CBT Therapist identifying causes which make them feel distressed and discuss strategies to help them regulate more effectively. | |
Spending | |
SALT Primitive Reflexes CBT LSA Mini bus Visitors
| £31,200.00 |
£9,342.50 | |
£9,900 | |
£32,359 | |
| £6,012 | |
| £2,000 | |
Next review date: October 2025
Physical Education and Sports Premium Funding
P.E. & Sports Premium Action Plan 2024-25
For information regarding previous spending please click on the pages below:
Action Plans
Article 1; Everyone under the age of 18 has all the rights in the Convention.
Article 31; Every child has the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of cultural activities.
Article 34; Governments must protect children from all forms of sexual abuse and exploitation.