Pupil Premium

What is Pupil Premium?

The Pupil Premium Grant is additional funding provided by the Government to help schools improve outcomes for disadvantaged pupils. It is intended to help remove barriers to learning, address inequalities in educational achievement and ensure that every child has the opportunity to reach their full potential.

Funding is allocated to schools based on the number of eligible pupils, including:

Pupils eligible for Free School Meals (FSM): Children who are currently eligible, or who have been eligible at any point during the previous six years (known as Ever 6).
Looked-after children: Children who are currently in the care of a local authority.
Previously looked-after children: Children who have left care through adoption, a special guardianship order or a child arrangements order.

How Do We Use Pupil Premium at Hullavington?

At Hullavington CE Primary and Nursery School, we are committed to ensuring that every child has the opportunity to succeed, whatever their background or circumstances.

We recognise that disadvantage can create barriers to learning, wellbeing and personal development. These barriers are not the same for every child, and we take time to understand the individual needs and circumstances of our pupils.

Our Pupil Premium Strategy is designed to address these barriers through carefully planned support, high-quality teaching and additional opportunities. Our priorities include:

Developing essential skills: Strengthening outcomes in reading, writing and mathematics, including phonics, spelling, number fluency and times tables.
Supporting early language development: Providing targeted opportunities to develop speech, language, vocabulary and communication, particularly in our Early Years.
Meeting individual needs: Ensuring disadvantaged children with additional or complex SEND receive appropriate support and opportunities to achieve.
Improving attendance: Working closely with families to promote regular attendance, good punctuality and positive engagement with school.
Enriching experiences: Ensuring that financial circumstances do not prevent children from accessing clubs, trips, music, sporting activities and wider learning opportunities.
Supporting wellbeing and belonging: Helping children feel safe, confident and included, with access to pastoral support when needed.

We believe that the most effective use of Pupil Premium is not simply about providing additional interventions, but about ensuring that disadvantaged pupils benefit from consistently high-quality teaching, appropriate support and the same rich opportunities as their peers.

Service Pupil Premium

As a school with a significant number of children from military families, we also recognise the particular experiences and challenges that Service children may face.

The Service Pupil Premium is additional funding provided to schools to support children whose parents serve in the Armed Forces. Unlike the main Pupil Premium, this funding is primarily intended to provide pastoral support and help schools address the potential impact of parental deployment, family separation and frequent moves on children's education and wellbeing.

At Hullavington, we aim to ensure that our Service children feel secure, supported and fully included in school life. We recognise the importance of helping children manage transitions, maintain friendships and feel a strong sense of belonging within our school community.

Service Pupil Premium funding is used to support the needs of Service children across the school.

Our Pupil Premium Strategy

We publish a Pupil Premium Strategy Statement which explains how we identify barriers to learning, how we intend to use our funding and the impact of the approaches we have put in place.

Our current strategy covers the period 2025–2028 and includes details of our priorities, planned expenditure and intended outcomes, alongside a review of the impact of our work.

You can download our current strategy below:

Pupil Premium Strategy 2025–2028

Download our Pupil Premium Strategy

Previous Pupil Premium Strategy Statements are available from the school office.

Wiltshire Educational Disadvantage Charter

Hullavington CE Primary and Nursery School is committed to the principles of the Wiltshire Educational Disadvantage Charter.

The Charter recognises that every day, in every interaction and across every aspect of school life, we have opportunities to challenge and overcome the effects of disadvantage.

We share the belief that children are not at risk of underachievement because they are identified as having Pupil Premium, SEND or any other label. Rather, it is the impact of socio-economic disadvantage on their learning, wellbeing and personal development that can create barriers to success.

The Charter encourages schools to develop a shared understanding of educational disadvantage and to embed high-quality, inclusive practice so that all children can flourish.

At Hullavington, this commitment underpins our approach to teaching, learning, pastoral care and the wider opportunities we provide. We want every child to feel valued, included and able to succeed.

Wiltshire Educational DIsadvantage Charter

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