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Pupil Premium


What is Pupil Premium?

Pupil Premium is a form of funding that schools receive to support disadvantaged students. The amount each school receives is based on the number of students in school who are or have been eligible for free school meals in the last 6 years. The funding also covers students who are looked after, adopted or have a parent/carer in the armed forces. The funding is designed to be used to raise the attainment of disadvantaged students and diminish the difference between them and their peers.

 

School Vision

 

Hove Park School & Sixth Form is committed to providing all pupils with a whole education, where they can access a high-quality academic curriculum alongside a range of enrichment opportunities.

 

Our intention is that all pupils, irrespective of their background or the challenges they face, make good progress and achieve high attainment across the curriculum, and that through our Every Child Should strategy they enjoy and participate in a broad range of extra-curricular opportunities, activities, trips and enrichment days.

 

The focus of our pupil premium strategy is to support disadvantaged pupils with accessing the whole education described above and to help them achieve their individual goals. This includes those disadvantaged pupils who are already high prior attainers, those who have special educational needs (SEND) and those who have English as an additional language (EAL). We will also consider the challenges faced by vulnerable pupils, such as those who have a social worker and young carers; the activities we have outlined in this statement are also intended to support their needs, regardless of whether they are disadvantaged or not.


Using the research of the Educational Endowment Fund (EEF) as a guide, our pupil premium strategy is based on a three-tiered model that focuses on: 1) high quality teaching and learning; 2) targeted academic support; and 3) wider strategies.

 

At the heart of our pupil premium strategy is a focus on ensuring all disadvantaged pupils receive high quality teaching and learning in the classroom; the Educational Endowment Fund (EEF) has shown that this has the greatest impact on closing the gap in outcomes between disadvantaged students and non-disadvantaged students.

 

In addition, we also provide a range of targeted academic support, as research by the Educational Endowment Fund (EEF) has shown the positive impact that these interventions can have, including on those who are not making good progress.

Wider strategies relate to the most significant non-academic challenges to success in school, including attendance, behaviour, and social and emotional support, which also may negatively impact upon academic attainment.

 

The approaches we have adopted complement each other to help pupils excel. To ensure they are effective we will:

 

  • ensure disadvantaged pupils are challenged in the work that they’re set
  • act early to intervene at the point need is identified
  • adopt a whole school approach in which all staff take responsibility for disadvantaged pupils’ outcomes and raise expectations of what they can achieve

 

Our approach will be responsive to common challenges and individual needs, rooted in robust diagnostic assessment, not assumptions about the impact of disadvantage.


Hove Park School Pupil Premium Strategy Document 2023-24

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