Premium Statement
If your child is eligible for free school meals, their schools may also be entitled to receive a sum of money to boost their learning. This guide explains the ins and outs of the Pupil Premium for Heath Hayes Academy and its children.
What is the Pupil Premium?
Pupil premium is additional funding, from the government, provided to schools for supporting pupils from low income families to ensure they benefit from the same opportunities as all other children.
This is based on research showing that children from low income families perform less well at school than their peers. Research showed that often, children who are entitled to Pupil Premium face challenges such as poor language and communication skills, less family support, lack of confidence and issues with attendance and punctuality compared to non-Pupil Premium children. The Pupil Premium is intended to directly benefit the children who are eligible, helping to narrow the gap between them and their classmates and their peers nationally.
Our key objectives in using the Pupil Premium funding are to ensure quality first teaching and widening of opportunity for all children. We are passionate about diminishing the difference between pupil groups. As a school we have an excellent track record of ensuring that pupils make strong progress. Through targeted inventions, we are working to eliminate barriers towards learning and progress. For children who start school with low attainment on entry, our aim is to ensure that they make accelerated progress in order to reach age related expectations and more as they move through the school.
A Guide to Pupil Premium
If your child is eligible for free school meals, their schools may also be entitled to receive a sum of money to boost their learning. This guide explains the ins and outs of the Pupil Premium for Heath Hayes Academy and its children.
Is your child eligible?
Schools are given a Pupil Premium for:
- Children who have qualified for free school meals at any point in the past six years. The school receives £1480 for each of these children.
- Children who have been looked after under local authority care for more than one day. The school is awarded a premium of £2410.
- Children who have parents in the forces. The school receives £340 for each service child.
How is it spent at Heath Hayes Academy?
Schools can choose how to spend their Pupil Premium money as they are best placed to identify what would be of most benefit to the children who are eligible.
Common ways in which schools spend their Pupil Premium fund include:
- Investing in Quality First Teaching
- Extra one-to-one or small-group support for children within the classroom.
- Employing extra teaching assistants to work with classes.
- Running catch-up sessions before or after school, for example for children who need extra help with maths or literacy.
- Providing extra tuition for able children who receive the Pupil Premium, for example in preparation for SATs.
- Providing music lessons for children whose families would be unable to pay for them.
- Funding educational trips and visits.
- Paying for additional help such as speech and language therapy or family therapy.
- Investing in resources that boost children’s learning, such as laptops or tablet computers.
At Heath Hayes Academy, we have chosen to spend our Pupil Premium money to support the areas detailed in the most recent statement.
All schools have to show that they are using their Pupil Premium fund appropriately. This is measured through Ofsted inspections and annual performance tables showing the progress made by children who are eligible for Pupil Premium. In Heath Hayes Academy’s Strategy Statement 2021/2022 (shown below), we show how much money we have been allocated, how we intend to spend it and how it is making a difference to the attainment of disadvantaged pupils.
If your child qualifies for free school meals, it’s important that you tell us – even if they take a packed lunch – as this enables them to claim Pupil Premium. You can check your eligibility here.
For more information, please use the link below to download our statement.
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Heath Hayes Academy Pupil Premium Statement 2024-2027
Heath Hayes Academy Pupil Premium Statement 2023-2024
Heath Hayes Academy Pupil Premium Statement 2022-2023
Heath Hayes Academy Pupil Premium Statement 2021-2022
Heath Hayes Academy Pupil Premium Statement 2020-2021
Heath Hayes Academy Review of spend 2019-2020