Pupil Premium Spend
Pupil Premium 2014/15
What is Pupil Premium funding? And what is the school expected by the Department of Education to spend it on?
Holy Family School, along with other schools, receives additional funding from the government called the Pupil Premium (PP). This is available to support children in the care of the local authority (CLA), children of parents serving in the armed forces and children known to be eligible for free school meals (FSM). Pupil Premium funding is £935 per eligible student.
In addition to this, secondary schools receive an additional £500 for every Year 7 student who has not achieved at least level 4 – the expected level at Key Stage 2, in reading and/or Mathematics (by end of their primary phase of study). This funding is called Catch-Up Premium (CUP) and is intended to help these students ‘catch up’ in literacy and numeracy as early as possible in their secondary education, and therefore enable them to access the secondary curriculum more fully.
Schools can choose how to spend the premium, but the Department for Education expects them to offer intensive support to students, which might include individual tuition or small-group teaching. It is also important that schools assess the progress of pupils that have not achieved the expected standard at Key Stage 2 so that they can demonstrate both to parents and to Ofsted, how they have used the funding to meet the needs of these students.
How many pupils at the school are eligible for the funding?
| Year | No. of pupils in Year group | No. of PP students | % of year group eligible for PP |
| 7 | 103 | 20 | 19.4 |
| 8 | 95 | 14 | 14.7 |
| 9 | 90 | 15 | 16.7 |
| 10 | 94 | 24 | 25.5 |
| 11 | 97 | 14 | 14.4 |
| Whole school | 479 | 87 | 18.1 |
The amount of funding the school received for Pupil Premium was £77,620
What is the school strategy for how best to use this funding?
Holy Family continues to invest in improving the literacy and numeracy of all pupils, but particularly those eligible for pupil premium funding. The school will also use this funding to develop students thirst for knowledge, love of learning and raise pupils’ aspirations for life beyond secondary school.
Pupil Premium funding is spent in the following ways:
- Higher Level Teaching Assistants – to work with targeted students, including PP students, and their families to support them in their wellbeing and in their academic progress – including after school clubs and activities £48,182
- School Counsellor to provide support for students with emotional and social needs £12,140
- Homework club £1,500
- Rewards and support for enrichment activities £4,320
- Support for students to access learning resources £2,922
- Sum set aside for priorities identified throughout the year which impact on pupil achievement (individual pupils and groups of pupils) £362
The spending for the above totalled £69,426
Any funding left over will be used to react to needs throughout the course of the academic year.
Impact of Pupil Premium funding on Attainment
Students achieving 5 or more A*- C including English and Maths:
| Year | PP students | ‘Other’ HFS students | National Gap (based on ‘others’) |
| 2013 | 42% | 63% | -25% |
| 2014 | 23% | 55% | -39% |
| 2015 | 53% | 68% | -10% |
The gap between disadvantaged students and ‘other’ students achieving A* to C in English at GCSE:
| Year | PP students | ‘Other’ HFS students | National Gap (based on ‘others’) |
| 2013 | 42% | 65% | -32% |
| 2014 | 23% | 69% | -50% |
| 2015 | 53% | 77% | -21% |
The gap between disadvantaged students and ‘other’ students achieving A* to C in Maths at GCSE:
| Year | PP students | ‘Other’ HFS students | National Gap (based on ‘others’) |
| 2013 | 67% | 75% | -10% |
| 2014 | 54% | 64% | -20% |
| 2015 | 59% | 78% | -15% |
Impact of Pupil Premium funding on Progress
The gap between disadvantaged students and ‘other’ student’s progress in English:
| Expected Progress | More than Expected Progress | |||||
| Year | PP students | ‘Other’ HFS students | National Gap (based on ‘others’) | PP students | ‘Other’ HFS students | National Gap (based on ‘others’) |
| 2013 | 42% | 60% | -32% | 17% | 9% | -17% |
| 2014 | 23% | 70% | -52% | 0% | 24% | -35% |
| 2015 | 63% | 70% | -11% | 25% | 29% | -9% |
The gap between disadvantaged students and ‘other’ student’s progress in Maths:
| Expected Progress | More than Expected Progress | |||||
| Year | PP students | ‘Other’ HFS students | National Gap (based on ‘others’) | PP students | ‘Other’ HFS students | National Gap (based on ‘others’) |
| 2013 | 62% | 72% | -9% | 8% | 18% | -29% |
| 2014 | 54% | 61% | -17% | 15% | 22% | -18% |
| 2015 | 75% | 73% | +3% | 19% | 27% | -16% |
Catch Up
How will the school use Catch Up funding this year?
- HLTA supporting delivering lessons to small groups of students
- Additional financial resources for Key Stage 3 English to purchase more relevant texts for delivery in lessons
- Aspirations programme for literature – The purchase of texts for pupils to borrow from the school library
- Specialist Literacy Coordinator to develop literacy across the school