National statistics demonstrate that students experiencing financial hardship do not achieve as well as their peers. The Pupil Premium Grant is additional government funding given to schools to help raise the progress and outcomes of disadvantaged pupils. The aim of this funding is to try and close the ‘achievement gap’ by enabling schools to offer targeted support to individual students.

Eligible students include:

• Children who are in receipt of free school meals [FSM] or have been registered for FSM in the last 6 years [Ever6]
• Adopted Children or Looked After Children
• Children of Service Personnel

If your child is entitled to free school meals, the School will automatically receive Pupil Premium funding.

Families in receipt of the following benefits are entitled to claim FSM:

• Income Support
• Income-based Jobseeker's Allowance
• Income-related Employment and Support Allowance
• support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
• the guaranteed element of Pension Credit
• Child Tax Credit (provided 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 4 weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit
• Universal Credit - if you apply on or after 1 April 2018 your household income must be less than £7,400 a year (after tax and not including any benefits you get)

Children who get paid these benefits directly, instead of through a parent or guardian, can also get free school meals.

Your child may also get free school meals if you get any of these benefits and your child is both:

• younger than the compulsory age for starting school
• in full-time education

You can apply directly to the London Borough of Hounslow.

The School deploys the Pupil Premium Grant to ensure:

• High levels of progress and outcomes for disadvantaged students
• High levels of attendance for disadvantaged students
• Improved access to interventions and extra-curricular provision for disadvantaged students

Our termly Data Harvest is used to monitor and track students’ progress. This allows us to gather information on individual student progress to inform our intervention programme.

We believe that supporting our disadvantaged students starts with excellent Teaching and Learning in the classroom. Our caring pastoral and rigorous academic systems support every child to achieve their potential.

However, we understand that each disadvantaged student has specific needs; through a flexible approach and an in-depth knowledge of each child in our care, we are able to implement a programme which best supports every student.

Support can include:

• One-to-one tuition
• One-to-one mentoring/counselling/emotional support
• One-to-one learning support
• Literacy and Numeracy Intervention
• Subject specific Intervention classes
• Further Education visits and workshops
• Assistance with the cost of school trips/ visits/ residentials
• Careers guidance
• Educational assessments
• Duke of Edinburgh Award costs
• ICT equipment
• Providing a range of resources for use at home and in lessons
• Learning opportunities outside the normal school day – includes Saturdays and holidays
• Assistance with costs for certain curriculum needs e.g. Food Technology ingredients
• Working with outside agencies 

Our Designated Safeguarding Lead and Family Engagement Officers work to support students and parents. 

Parent Workshops are held throughout the year to provide guidance on how you can support your child’s physical and mental wellbeing.

For further information on the Pupil Premium Grant, please contact Ms Hart [Deputy Headteacher].