2019/2020 Pupil Premium

For the academic year of 2019 – 2020 Hollywell Primary School received £40,920

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. Depending on priorities for the child there are a variety of ways in which the school would utilise the funding available.

How we spend the Pupil Premium funding:

As a school we carefully consider various strategies for the best use of this funding and the individual needs of the children.

Some of the ways in which we spend the Pupil Premium grant on eligible pupils includes:

• Funding teaching assistants in KS1 and KS2
• Daily one-to-one reading
• Additional teacher to work with smaller groups providing targeted support and feedback
• Extra one-to-one, or small-group, support for children within or outside of the classroom
• Investing in resources, including targeted interventions, that boost children’s learning
• Providing opportunities for curriculum enrichment, including music lessons and school clubs
• Contributing to school trips and residential visits
• Providing daily milk
• Funding the 'Drawing and Talking' counselling sessions, delivered by a trained teaching assistant
• Funding additional nurture provision at break times and lunchtimes to support social skills and maintain good self-esteem

44% of the pupil premium children in the 2019-20 cohort reached the expected level in reading, writing and maths in the 2019 teacher assessments. However, all of children made expected or better progress from their KS1 starting points.