Pupil Premium

Pupil premium strategy statement

This statement details our school’s use of pupil premium (and recovery premium for the

2022 to 2023 academic year) funding to help improve the attainment of our disadvantaged pupils.

It outlines our pupil premium strategy, how we intend to spend the funding in this academic year and the effect that last year’s spending of pupil premium had within our school.

School overview

Detail	Data
School name	Heath Lane Academy
Number of pupils in school	637
Proportion (%) of pupil premium eligible pupils	31.5%
Academic year/years that our current pupil premium strategy plan covers (3 year plans are recommended)	2022/2023 to 2025/2026
Date this statement was published	September 2022
Date on which it will be reviewed	March 2023
Statement authorised by	Mark Trimingham Principal
Pupil premium lead	Susan Ley Associate Assistant Principal
Governor / Trustee lead	Anne Melville Chair of governing body

Funding overview

Detail	Amount
Pupil premium funding allocation this academic year	£ 195,965
Recovery premium funding allocation this academic year	£ 0
Pupil premium funding carried forward from previous years (enter £0 if not applicable)	£ 0
Total budget for this academic year If your school is an academy in a trust that pools this funding, state the amount available to your school this academic year	£224,535

 

Part A: Pupil premium strategy plan

Statement of intent

We have high expectations and aspirations for every pupil at Heath Lane Academy. In addition to the support we provide for all pupils our disadvantaged and vulnerable pupils will receive additional academic and pastoral support to reduce the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils at Heath Lane Academy and other pupils nationally. The ultimate objective is to remove barriers to learning and attainment to ensure equal access for all pupils regardless of socio-economic background.

Challenges

This details the key challenges to achievement that we have identified among our disadvantaged pupils.

Challenge number	Detail of challenge
1	Improve the outcomes of disadvantaged pupils at GCSE and progress towards this in years 7 to 10.
2	To ensure that pupils in all year groups understood what they have been taught, can apply their learning and have access to homework to support to ensure learning is consolidated.
3	To ensure that attendance is above 94% for disadvantaged pupils (88% 2021-22)
4	To ensure that every pupil has access to a wide and varied programme of extra-curricular enrichment activities/experiences.

Intended outcomes

This explains the outcomes we are aiming for by the end of our current strategy plan, and how we will measure whether they have been achieved.

Intended outcome	Success criteria
Disadvantaged pupils will understand what they have been taught, can apply their learning and have appropriate access to homework to consolidate their learning.	In reviewing outcomes, the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and other pupils at Heath Lane Academy will be statistically insignificant.
Disadvantaged pupils will have attendance in line with their non-disadvantaged pupil nationally	Attendance of disadvantaged pupils at Heath Lane Academy will be in line with attendance for non-disadvantaged pupils.
Disadvantaged pupils will access cultural capital around extra-curricular activities/experiences.	Disadvantaged pupils at Heath Lane Academy will attend extra-curricular activities as much as their non-disadvantaged pupils.

 

Activity in this academic year

This details how we intend to spend our pupil premium (and recovery premium funding) this academic year to address the challenges listed above.

Teaching (for example, CPD, recruitment and retention)

Budgeted cost: £ 51,000

Activity	Evidence that supports this approach	Challenge number(s) addressed
Develop and improve the quality of teaching for all pupils in all lessons.	The positive implementation of this pro-gramme will improve the quality of the pedagogical practice across the school. Key factors which will improve will be:  Pupil feedback (EEF impact +8 months), Learning styles (EEF impact +2 months) and Mastery learning (EEF impact +5 months)	1 and 2

 

Targeted academic support (for example, tutoring, one-to-one support structured interventions)

Budgeted cost: £ 117,000

Activity	Evidence that supports this approach	Challenge number(s) addressed
To enable all teachers to observe one another teach and participate in Instructional Coaching.	Ensuring mastery for learning and pupil feedback is proven to improve a total of 13 months impact on pupils progress.1	1
Target academic support from a Year Champion in all year groups towards disadvantaged students.	Aspiration and behaviour interventions will improve pupil progress by 3 months according to EEF.	1 and 3
Provide inclusion support for students with ADSD and SEMH needs.	On average, SEL interventions have an identifiable and valuable impact on attitudes to learning and social relationships in school. They also have an average overall impact of 4 months' additional progress on attainment.	1
Employ an additional Student Support Assistant in order to work specifically with PP/SEND pupils.	Evidence suggests that TAs can have a positive impact on academic achievement. However, effects tend to vary widely between those studies where TAs provide general administrative or classroom support, which on average do not show a positive benefit, and those where TAs support individual pupils or small groups, which on average show moderate positive benefits. The headline figure of one additional month’s progress lies between these figures.on average show moderate positive benefits. The headline figure of one additional month’s progress lies between these figures.	1
Year Champion Mentoring

 

Wider strategies (for example, related to attendance, behaviour, wellbeing)

Budgeted cost: £ 12,000

Activity	Evidence that supports this approach	Challenge number(s) addressed
Faculty provision for dis-advantaged pupils according to subject requirements £2,000 per faculty	All students need to be able to access the full curriculum regardless of background.	1,2 and 4

Total budgeted cost: £ 180,000

 

 

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