Butler’s Hill Infant and Nursery school is located in Hucknall, Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. The school location has long been identified nationally as an area of low social deprivation. 

We firmly believe in our school ethos of 'Dream Big, Aim High' and we believe this is the right of all children.  Our intention is that all pupils; irrespective of background or the challenges they face, make good progress across the curriculum.  Cultural capital is a key aspect of our strategy and is it is our responsibility to ensure our children receive engaging experiences and activities that will bridge some of the gaps that exist due to their personal experiences this (includes after school activities, enrichment and experiential learning).  We aim to equip our children with the knowledge needed to be effective citizens within our local and global community.

What is Pupil Premium?

Pupil Premium is a sum of money given to schools each year by the Government to support the education of disadvantaged children.  The funding is used to directly benefit the children who are eligible, helping to narrow the gap between them and their classmates.

Primary schools are given a pupil premium for:

• Children in Reception to Year 6 who are, or have ever been, entitled to free school meals based on their family income: £1,455 per pupil, per school year.
• Children in care: £2,530 per pupil, per school year.
• Children previously in care who have been adopted, or who have a special guardianship order, a child arrangements order or a residence order: £2,530 per pupil, per school year.
• Children recorded as being from service families: £335 per pupil, per school year.

 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.

Children receiving this funding have supplemented school trips and activities, free school milk and are prioritised for certain extra curricular activities as part of the funding.

For full details of how pupil premium funding is used at our school, please click on the link for the Pupil Premium Strategy below.

Your child may be able to get free school meals if you get any of the following:

• 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)

If you need support to complete the application please contact the office who will be happy to help with this - 0115 952 5904

How is the Pupil Premium Strategy developed and delivered?

At Butlers Hill we follow a ‘5 step’ approach:

1. Identifying the challenges faced by the school’s disadvantaged pupils

• careful data retrieval and analysis along with converstaions with teachers and parents/carer.
• attendance and levels of persistent and severe absence
• behaviour incidences and exclusions data
• wellbeing, mental health and safeguarding concerns

2. Using evidence enables us to

• understand which activities have been found to be the most effective in addressing the types of challenge our pupils face 
• how to successfully implement our chosen activities in our setting
• impact of different approaches / interventions.

3. Developing an effective strategy - spending is allocated across three key areas:
• developing high-quality teaching
• providing targeted academic support
• tackling non-academic barriers to academic success 

Key focus: To allocate funding to activities most likely to deliver the outcomes identified as our main challenges based on evidence that has been successful and is aligned with the School Improvement Plan.

4. Delivering and monitoring your strategy

• coherence with curriculum: children will recieve short shaprp bursts of intervention to ensure they do not miss out on core curriculum time - often whole class interventons based on Quality First Teaching
• collective responsibility: all staff are aware of the importance of delivering high quality teaching and intervention as part of the school ethos and strategy.
• targeting and monitoring:  pupils are selected based on data   This and teachers knowledge of that child.  This will be fluid depending on need at different times throughout the year.  As children make progress interventions and support  is withdrawn. Support may be one to one or small group depending on need.  Progress is monitored half termly.

5. Evaluating and sustaining your strategy

• success is based on outcomes for disadvantaged pupils and progress made from their starting points in each educaion phase within school. 
• all staff are aware of the need for robost monitoring in order to report outcomes 
• evaluation is an ongoing  to ensure strategies remain effective.