Pupil Premium & Recovery Premium

Please find below information related to the school's use of Pupil Premium. There is also information related to the use of Recovery Premiums following the COVID 19 pandemic.

Pupil Premiums

The pupil premium is additional funding for publicly funded schools in England to raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils and close the gap between them and their peers. 

• HPS Pupil Premium Strategy 2024 2025 download_for_offline
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• Pupil Premium Policy download_for_offline
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Recovery Premium Funding

What is recovery premium funding is for?

The government announced £1 billion of funding to support children and young people to catch up lost time after school closure. This is especially important for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged backgrounds. This funding includes:

a one-off universal £650 million catch up premium for the 2020 to 2021 academic year to ensure that schools have the support they need to help all pupils make up for lost teaching time

• a £350 million National Tutoring Programme to provide additional, targeted support for those children and young people who need the most help, which includes:
• a schools programme for 5 to 16-year-olds – for more information, see the National Tutoring Programme (NTP) FAQs
• a 16 to 19 tuition fund
• an oral language intervention programme for reception-aged children

The school has published below its Catch-up Plan. The school has also make arrangements for the deployment of NTP tutors,  and involvement in the reception year Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI).

COVID Catch-up Premium Plan 2022/23 Academic Year

More information about the funding can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/catch-up-premium-coronavirus-covid-19/catch-up-premium