Pupil Premium

Our Approach

Pupil Premium is additional funding provided to schools to improve educational outcomes for disadvantaged pupils. At New Rush Hall School (NRHS), we use this funding to help remove barriers to learning, increase opportunity and ensure that disadvantage does not limit what a pupil can achieve.

We know that disadvantage can affect pupils in different ways. Our approach is therefore rooted in understanding each pupil as an individual and identifying the academic, social, emotional or wider barriers that may prevent them from fully engaging with education and achieving their potential.

Our Priorities

Our use of Pupil Premium reflects our wider commitment to inclusion, high expectations and social mobility. Funding is targeted carefully to ensure that disadvantaged pupils benefit from high-quality teaching alongside the additional support and opportunities they need to succeed.

Our priorities are to:

• improve educational outcomes and support pupils to make strong progress from their individual starting points;
• address gaps in learning and provide targeted academic support where needed;
• improve attendance, engagement and readiness to learn;
• support pupils’ social, emotional and personal development;
• provide access to therapeutic, pastoral and specialist interventions where appropriate;
• ensure disadvantaged pupils have full access to our extensive enrichment, cultural capital and personal development offer;
• raise aspirations and prepare pupils successfully for further education, training and employment; and
• remove financial or social barriers that might otherwise prevent pupils from accessing opportunities available to their peers.

We recognise that eligibility for Pupil Premium does not, in itself, determine an individual pupil’s needs. Decisions about how funding is used are informed by our knowledge of pupils, assessment of need and evidence about the approaches most likely to make a positive difference.

The impact of our Pupil Premium strategy is reviewed regularly to ensure that funding is making a meaningful difference to pupils’ achievement, engagement, personal development and future opportunities.

Pupil Premium Strategy Statement

Our current Pupil Premium Strategy Statement sets out the challenges identified for disadvantaged pupils at NRHS, how funding is being used to address these priorities and how we evaluate its impact.

To view our current Pupil Premium Strategy Statement, please click the link below.