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Pupil Premium
The Pupil Premium is additional funding for publicly funded schools in England to raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils of all abilities and to close the gaps between them and their peers. This funding is used in a variety of ways to ensure children who are eligible make as much academic progress as possible. The Pupil Premium is available for children who have been, or are currently on, the free school meals register; children who are in, or have been in, local-authority care, or children whose parents are serving in the armed forces.
In order to be eligible for the Pupil Premium, your child must be registered as eligible for free school meals (FSM) at any point in the last 6 years. All government-funded schools must offer universal free school meals to every pupil in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 regardless of the circumstances at home. This does NOT entitle you to the Pupil Premium. However, if you receive any of the benefits listed below, then you should apply to be on the Free School Meals Register, even if your child is currently in Reception, Year 1 or Year 2. This will then allow the school to access the pupil premium funding for your child.
- Income Support
- Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
- Income-related Employment and Support Allowance
- Support under Part 6 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
- The guaranteed element of State Pension Credit
- Child Tax Credit (as long as you’re not also entitled to Working Tax Credit and have an annual gross income of no more than £16,190)
- Working Tax Credit run-on (paid for four weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit)
- Universal Credit
Going forward our strategy for Pupil Premium spend is as follows:
- To raise attainment of pupils at risk of underachieving in English and Mathematics
- To provide support for those pupils who are at risk of underachieving in English and
Mathematics - To ensure the emotional needs of PPG pupils are met
- To ensure high attainment of more able PPG pupils
- To ensure high attendance and punctuality of PPG pupils
- To ensure that PPG pupils have equal access to our enriched curriculum
- To provide a broad and balanced curriculum to all pupils
We will continue to focus the spend on the areas with most impact – see below
1:1 support in all subjects where required, additional SATs preparation, 1:1, funded summer scheme places, after school club funded places, additional small group TA support, enrichment clubs, training updates for staff working closely with pupils entitled to pupil premium funding (reading, phonics, mastery maths), subsidy to trips and enrichment activities, half term forest school scholarships, ICT resources, resources and training to allow PPG pupils with specific behavioural and emotional needs to self-regulate, access all areas of learning and make a supported transition into the next class/phase or stage of education.
Pupil Premium strategy statement – updated
For more general information regarding Pupil Premium funding for schools, you can read more here on the government website.
PE and Sports Premium
At Holcombe Brook we aim to provide a rich and varied programme of sport. This includes competitive and non-competitive games which ensure our children develop appropriate attitudes and skills.
Whilst games is taught as part of the PE National Curriculum, at Holcombe Brook Primary School we offer the children the opportunity to take part in a variety of age appropriate extra-curricular activities.These are open to children regardless of gender or ability.
Our funding for last year was £18700. The majority of this was spent buying in the service of sports coaches to enhance the opportunities already on offer within the school day and as extra curricular activities.
These include the following:
- We subsidise twice weekly after school karate sessions.
- Swimming lessons take place for year 5 pupils and funding is offered to parents of any Y6 pupil who is still unable to swim 25 metres.
- Pupils attend Forest School sessions over the year
- A drama/movement group, run through Helen O Grady, also operates in school every Wednesday with children from across school. Many pupils continue to take up drama sessions after sessions in school.
- Using supplementary funding from the PTA we have had an area of the school field surfaced with rubber mulch to allow wider access in winter. This area now has several outdoor gym stations added for use by all pupils on a timetabled basis. A successful lottery bid for £10,000 has seen further fitness stations and a climbing wall added to the area.
- An area at the front of the school has been fenced and a sensory garden created in which pupils can spend lunchtimes and breaktimes.
- We have 3 sports coaches in school for a day a week and every child has at least one session with them every week and 2 PE sessions each week as well as regular after school clubs that are available for all ages at various times of the year.
Holcombe Brook has a strong sporting tradition and last year won the Bury Girls Football League as well as achieving second place in the Bury Athletics competition. We also represented Bury at the Greater Manchester City Games achieving 9th place overall. This year both our girls and boys cross country teams competed in the Bury Cross Country events
School is committed to sporting excellence for all pupils and has achieved the Games Mark Gold Award for 5 years for its commitment to games both within the school day and after school. In June 2022 we also managed to achieve the Platinum Award and again in 2023. We are extremely proud to receive 5 nominations for the Bury Sports Awards for ‘Commitment to school sport’. We were recently awarded the gold medal position in Bury for entering a grand total of 16 competitions across the year – the highest in Bury.
Please read the following reports for details of how we intend to spend our PE and Sports funding allocation for the current academic year, how we spent our previous academic year’s allocation and how it made a difference to our pupils:
For more general information regarding PE and Sports Premium funding for primary schools, you can read more here on the government website.