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The key focus of our pupil premium strategy is to ensure that pupil premium students receive the support they need. This is done through highlighting key groups of students at different times of the year ensuring that every Pupil Premium child will be focussed on through an Academic year. 

The strategy has four main strands; Teaching and learning, Targeted academic support, Specific intervention strategies and Education recovery.

A key focus is high quality teaching and learning. We know that this is what has the biggest impact in the classroom and have invested to ensure teachers and support staff are supporting their pupil premium learners. There is a strong focus on the core subjects from years 7 through to year 11 with a greater emphasis on early intervention. Our strategy supports the wider school plans of education recovery and we are working closely with two national Tutoring partners. 

Our strong pastoral system also plays a vital role, ensuring students have what they need to succeed as well as acting as a conduit for parental engagement. This has been especially apparent with a return to school after Covid 19 lockdowns and with National school attendance at its lowest figure for decades. A HHS PP charter shows a commitment to supporting every pupil premium student. 

Current AFA1 data shows a 14% difference between PP and non PP students who are at or above their expected reading age level across years 7. This rises to 16% for year 8, 22% for year 9 and 15% for year 10. 

Current 2021 GCSE data shows a 12% gap at Grade 4+ in Maths and 14% for 5+.. The MFl gap for attainment is higher with 19% difference at Grade 4+ and 21% at Grade 5+.

Due to the Pandemic there is no trip data and schools club numbers were affected by the bubble system. We are using Evolve this year to track student attendance to both school clubs and school trips.

No gap in NEET numbers

Teaching assistant interventions

The Research base for formative assessment 

Reading comprehension strategies have a high impact, on average +6 months

Reading comprehension strategies

NCES study into student access to digital learning resources outside of the classroom 

EEF one to one tuition 

Small group tuition

Setting high expectations of disadvantaged students Supporting the attainment of disadvantaged pupils NFER

Reading comprehension strategies

Debate Mate

EEF Parental engagement

EEF Arts participation

Be Her lead

For 2020-21 we narrowed the gap between pupil Premium and non Pupil Premium students for Attainment 8. In 2020 this was a gap of -7.44 and in 2021 it reduced to a gap of -4.37 with Pupil Premium students scoring an A8 score of 49.68. This compares to a National figure of 50.9 for all pupils. The gap also reduced for attainment with the figure for Grade 5+ in English and Maths reducing to -11.75% from -14.89% in 2020..

Based on FFT analysis we significantly closed the gap for progress with only 0.01 between PP and non PP students. PP students at Heartlands also made the same level of progress as non PP students nationally based on FFT data. 

Internal reading age data from September to February showed Pupil Premium students progress in line with non pupil Premium students. This is shown in the table below by year group:

Attendance data shows an improvement in 2020-21 but the last two years data have been affected significantly by Covid-19. 

Table 1

In September 2020, due to returning to school after the long Summer lockdown it was felt that the focus of this year’s work should be pastorally focussed. A pastoral recovery Curriculum was created and the PP20 projects were a pilot to support Pupil Premium students within that. 

The PP20 project has been rolled out across all five year groups. It each has its own distinct intervention package depending on the needs of the students in that year group. Students have been given a suite of interventions ranging from Breakfast club, parcels from the Letterbox club and a push towards newly formed enrichment activities for year 7 to Easter school, one to one tutoring and a placement on the Boost+ careers programme for year 11s. Following discussion with the Heads of year next year will see a PP30 group running for each year group with a different 30 students each term. This will mean that nearly every PP student in the school will receive some specific targeted intervention in 2021/22. To support the pastoral development of our pupils two additional Engagement officers were appointed. 

In the final term of the year the focus shifted from the pastoral curriculum to how students can be supported in lessons. Heads of Faculty are starting to embed strategies that focus on the underperformance of Pupil Premium students as well as the appointment of three new TLR holders across English, Maths and Science who will support to drive PP student progress in the core subject areas. High ability PP students are often overlooked when PP spending is utilised, we however, have supported students to attend the Brilliant club as well as Science Olympians and Further Mathematicians to extend our high prior attainers. This term has seen the launch of the year 9 Be Her Lead programme of which 14 PP girls are attending. The Pupil Premium budget continues to support GCSE Music students in accessing one to one music tuition to support their studies. Due to the reduction in trips and offsite activities the money budgeted for those students and events will be carried over to next year.