Pupil Premium / Disadvantaged Children

Hatton School pupil premium strategy statement

This statement details our school’s use of pupil premium (and recovery premium) funding to help improve the attainment of our disadvantaged pupils.

It outlines our pupil premium strategy, how we intend to spend the funding in this academic year and the outcomes for disadvantaged pupils last academic year.

School overview

Detail	Data
Number of pupils in school	191
Proportion (%) of pupil premium eligible pupils	42.6%
Academic year/years that our current pupil premium strategy plan covers	2023-2025
Date this statement was published	2^nd October 2023
Date on which it will be reviewed	April 2025
Statement authorised by	Chris Smaling
Pupil premium lead	Manuela Mansfield
Governor / Trustee lead	Hema Patel

Funding overview

Detail	Amount
Pupil premium funding allocation this academic year	£117,855
Recovery premium funding allocation this academic year	£55,100 (current estimation by DfE)
Pupil premium (and recovery premium) funding carried forward from previous years (enter £0 if not applicable)* *Recovery premium received in academic year 2021 to 2022 can be carried forward to academic year 2022 to 2023. Recovery premium received in academic year 2022 to 2023 cannot be carried forward to 2023 to 2024.	£0
Total budget for this academic year If your school is an academy in a trust that pools this funding, state the amount available to your school this academic year	£172,955

Part A: Pupil premium strategy plan

Statement of intent

Ultimate objectives for your disadvantaged pupils?

- To ensure all pupils meet their potential by identifying and addressing any gaps in access or educational opportunity.

- To provide enrichment in the curriculum and through extra-curricular activities

How does our current pupil premium strategy plan work towards achieving those objectives?

- Providing support for families through parent support advisor and behaviour support staff/strategies

- Supporting nutrition to ensure pupils are ready for learning

- Providing home-learning resources and uniform

- Enriching curriculum by providing free educational visits and residential opportunities

What are the key principles of our strategy plan?

- Being proactive in supporting pupils and their families to ensure equal access to education within and beyond the classroom.

Challenges

Challenge number	Detail of challenge
1	Providing resources and nutrition
2	Accessing services within and beyond school
3	Access to enrichment activities
4	Access to education and social interaction

Intended outcomes

This explains the outcomes we are aiming for by the end of our current strategy plan, and how we will measure whether they have been achieved.

Intended outcome	Success criteria
Pupils have resources they need and are ready for learning	Parents take up uniform and book grants. Pupils have snacks and breakfast provided in school
Parents are supported to access services within and beyond school	All families have access to parents support
Pupils are supported to access education and social interaction in school	Behaviour and sensory support team and midday supervisors support target pupils
All pupils have access to enrichment activities and residential trips	Barriers to activities removed through supported funding

Activity in this academic year

This details how we intend to spend our pupil premium (and recovery premium) funding this academic year to address the challenges listed above.

Targeted academic support (for example, tutoring, one-to-one support, structured interventions)

Budgeted cost: £ 83,455

Activity	Evidence that supports this approach	Challenge number(s) addressed
Additional items to support individual pupils e.g. communication aid, resources for home learning	Pupils have AAC commination resources in place and access to home learning activities.	4, 1
Funding for residential and day trips	Pupils able to attend residential and day trips that enrich the curriculum offer	3, 4
Behaviour and sensory support Specialists	Targeted interventions from specialist staff improve access to learning	2, 4
Free school uniform grants	Families take up offer of uniform grants	1

Wider strategies (for example, related to attendance, behaviour, wellbeing)

Budgeted cost: £ 89,500

Activity	Evidence that supports this approach	Challenge number(s) addressed
Parent Support Advisors	All pupils have contact with and support from parent advisor.	2, 3, 4
Book grants to support home learning	Pupils have resources at home to engage in reading and activities related to curriculum themes	2, 4
Midday support to support social interaction and play	Targeted support for pupils to engage in communication and interaction with peers during leisure time	3, 4
Breakfast & snacks in school	Pupils’ nutrition a needs are supported so they are ready for learning	1, 4
Training for parents	Parents are invited to a range of training and information opportunities	2, 4

Total budgeted cost: £ 172,955

Part B: Review of the previous academic year

Outcomes for disadvantaged pupils

The school had a one year pupil premium strategy for the academic year 2022-2023. Data consistently shows that our pupils’ barriers to learning and progression are not linked to their families’ socio-economic context. Our pupils have complex learning difficulties which presents significant barriers to educational achievement. Our strategy was therefore designed to reduce the impact of these barriers. We also sought to raise self-esteem whilst improving behaviour as well as enhancing pupils’ social activities and experiences and providing support to families. This ensured that pupils were supported to have positive wellbeing and to be ready and equipped to access both the formal curriculum and extra-curricular activities and this was achieved for all individuals taking into account their complex needs and starting point.

Type of support	Actual spend	Description	Impact
Family Support Advisors	£33,930	Dedicated FSAs available to support families.	Increase in / support for / generalisation to the home of; - communication skills - positive behaviour - sensory regulation - social interaction - good sleep hygiene - access to benefits and other means of financial and practical support - support with housing issues - support with immigration issues - transport applications / appeal - secondary transfer
Behaviour and sensory support Specialists	£19,114	Enhanced specialist support for children to support their access to the curriculum	To enable pupils to progress against individual learning outcomes.
Additional Midday Support	£22,818	Enhanced staffing / 1:1 support for those children in receipt of pupil premium funding who require it	Support for feeding programmes and increase in engagement, social interaction and positive behaviour during lunch times.
Extended Schools and Trips	£4, 187	40% Subsidy for After School Club 75% Subsidy for the school’s Holiday Play Schemes. 75% Subsidy for residential trips. To access / participate in a range of team building, confidence and leadership activities. 100% Free access to day Educational Visits.	Subjective and objective increase in PSHE skills and increase in life experiences. Increase in the range of inclusive social experiences and activities that pupils access. Subjective and objective increase in PSHE skills and increase in life experiences. Increase in the range of inclusive social experiences and activities that pupils access. Subjective and objective increase in PSHE skills and increase in life experiences and for many pupils the first opportunity to stay away from home without their parents. Increase in the range of inclusive educational, social experiences and activities that pupils access.
School Uniform Subsidy £75 of free uniform per child + 50% discount above £75 of uniform	£1,080	Children in receipt of Pupil Premium will receive 50% discount on all school uniform items	Increase in wearing and having enough sets of the school uniform
Individual Items for individual children	£45	Specific items purchased in response to recommendations by Social Workers or Therapists.	This will be specific to the individual.
Additional OT hours above EHCP quantification	£9,680	Additional specialist support above EHCP quantification to ensure best outcomes	This will be specific to the individual.
Breakfast & Snacks	£3,400	Offering breakfast and mid-morning snacks to all pupil premium children	To ensure that children are not hungry and can be ready to learn

In addition we have recognised that due to the specific needs of our pupil cohort (the majority of whom are not yet verbal or with emerging verbal skills) one of the main keys to their ability to access the curriculum and all teaching and learning opportunities is their receptive and expressive communication skills / ability. Over the period of the recent pandemic children missed out on access to vital therapies both within school and the community. Therefore our strategy for supporting all pupils in their recovery from the pandemic has been to utilise additional funding to fund speech and language therapy & Occupational Therapy

Speech therapy – Additional speech therapy was provided to individual children through an additional speech therapist funded through the recovery premium. In addition the therapist provided training in strategies and programmes of work to enable staff class to deliver ongoing programmes.

Occupational Therapy – Additional Occupational Therapy hours were funded to enable initial observation of pupils to identify needs for assessment for OT input and additional quantification to be requested through the local authority system to get new quantifications added to pupils EHCPs

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