Pupil Premium Information
Information & Pupil Premium
Published on - 03-09-2020
Educational research has identified a gap in achievement between disadvantaged pupils and their peers. As a result, the government now provides additional funding (a premium) to schools designed specifically to support these children and to ensure that students of all abilities have the same opportunities to learn.
Pupils eligible for the pupil premium include:
are registered as eligible for Free School Meals within the last 6 years have been looked after for 1 day or more (check to see if your child is eligible for free school meals here)
- are adopted
- leave care under a Special Guardianship Order, a Residence Order or Child Arrangements Order
- where the parent self-declares their child’s status to the school, providing supporting evidence (e.g. an adoption order); and
- where the school records on the January School Census that it has a child on roll who meets the above criteria.
Service Premium
Children who have been recorded as having a parent in the armed forces within the last six years are granted the Service Premium. This funding is used to provide additional pastoral support for students moving into the school (including a family support advisor, counselling) to mitigate the effects of turbulent schooling (where students have changed school frequently). Some is used to support the development of friendships through activities such as breakfast clubs and Games club. A proportion of the funding is used to subsidise enrichment activities such as curriculum trips, enrichment trips for eligible students.
Pupil Premium Strategy
Brighton Hill Community school had 148 pupils entitled to Pupil Premium funding (18% of the total cohort) at the start of the academic year 2019-2020. For this period, the school received a total of £124,153. The majority of funding was spent as follows:
- Delivering high quality CPD to further improve Quality First Teaching (QFT)
- Ensuring high quality teaching supports Pupil Premium students
- Delivering an impactful transition programme from Year 6 to Year 7
- Providing a tailored KS4 curriculum
- Providing and developing effective data analysis and reporting tools
- Providing Literacy and Numeracy support across KS3 & KS4
- Providing one-to-one or small group support in English and Maths across KS3 & KS4
- Supporting a range of targeted ‘therapies’ for relevant students across KS3 & KS4
- Supporting various parental requests
The aim of this funding is to "close the gap" between Pupil Premium-funded children and those who are not funded. Whilst we monitor the progress of these pupils carefully, it is clearly not possible to outline here the support each individual has received. Sophisticated teacher assessment and therapy review systems are in place to support all pupils who need extra help, regardless of whether they are entitled to funding or not and Brighton Hill Community School is committed to closing any significant gaps in attainment between one group of students and the next.
These actions are intended to:
- Close PP gaps between school P8 outcome compared to National outcome for PP students.
- Close PP gap between % outcomes for 4+ & 5+ in English & maths compared to National outcomes for these headline measures for PP students.
- Close SEN gap ensuring that SEN students progress at least as well as Non-SEN students.
- Students joining mid-year make at least expected progress in all subjects.
- Improve P8 outcomes for PP students in maths.
- Improve P8 outcomes for PP students in English.
- Improve P8 outcomes for PP students in the open element and reduce the progress gap between PP and non-PP in the open element.
- Ensuring the targets that have been set for disadvantaged students at Brighton Hill Community School are aspirational and currently based on FFT20 benchmarks.
- Ensuring all staff are using data when planning for disadvantaged students and that this is evident through teacher assessment reports and differentiation in the classroom.
- Increased attendance for pupils eligible for PP.
- Increase engagement levels of PP students and families in key school events.
The gap in attainment is measured through Progress 8 and Attainment 8. Our three-year trend is detailed below and generated from Sisra internal data:
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P8 Element
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2016-17
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2017-18
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2018-19
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Whole school
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-0.17
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-2.0
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-0.54
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PP Students
|
-0.69
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-1.02
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-0.79
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No PP Students
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-0.05
|
0.03
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-0.47
|
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GAP
|
-0.64
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-1.05
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-0.32
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Attainment 8
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2016-17
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2017-18
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2018-19
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2019.20*
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Whole school
|
46.26
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42.72
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40.5
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48.85
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PP Students
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38.08
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26.89
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35.05
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37.63
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No PP Students
|
48.11
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47.82
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42.34
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50.88
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GAP
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-10.03
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-20.93
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-7.29
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-13.25
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We also monitor PP gap between % outcomes for 5+ in English & maths compared to National outcomes for Non-PP students
Source ASP (analyse school performance) www.analyse-school-performance.service.gov.uk
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Headline Measure
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2017-18 BHCS PP
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2017-18 National Non-PP
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2018-19 BHCS PP
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2018-19 National Non-PP
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2019-20 BHCS PP*
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% Achieving 5+ English & maths
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8%
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50%
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22%
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50%
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26.3%
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* 2019.20 data has been calculated using the highest from either the Centre Assessed Grade or the Exam Board Grade in line with Government guidelines. National performance tables will not be published for the 2019.20 academic year due to the impact of the National lockdown and school closures as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic.
Due to Coronavirus the DfE have announced it understands schools won’t be able to evaluate the impact of pupil premium for all of the 2019/20 academic year.
Instead, the DfE say schools should monitor and report on the grant’s impact at the end of the 2020/21 financial year. This report will cover the whole period between September 2019 and March 2021.
From September 2020, Brighton Hill Community School has 177 pupils entitled to Pupil Premium funding (18% of the total cohort). The allocation of Pupil Premium funds as a result of this is £143,150. Details of our planned strategy will be published on this page before the end of Half-Term 1 2020/21. The plan will be underpinned by a 3-year strategy to target progress in key areas of Pupil Premium underperformance when compared to:
Best practice models, guidance & research from organisations including but not limited to:
