Pupil Premium / Disadvantaged Children

Pupil premium strategy statement – Hatton Special School

This statement details our school’s use of pupil premium funding to help improve the attainment of our disadvantaged pupils.

It outlines our pupil premium strategy, how we intend to spend the funding in this academic year and the outcomes for disadvantaged pupils last academic year.

School overview

Detail	Data
Number of pupils in school	199
Proportion (%) of pupil premium eligible pupils	47%
Academic year/years that our current pupil premium strategy plan covers (3-year plans are recommended – you must still publish an updated statement each academic year)	2025-2028
Date this statement was published	28^th October 2025
Date on which it will be reviewed	April 2026
Statement authorised by	Chris Smaling
Pupil premium lead	Lynette Phillips
Governor / Trustee lead	Rohil Mesial / Sahal Qazi

Funding overview

Detail	Amount
Pupil premium funding allocation this academic year	£118,170
Pupil premium funding carried forward from previous years (enter £0 if not applicable)	£0
Total budget for this academic year If your school is an academy in a trust that pools this funding, state the amount available to your school this academic year	£118,170

Part A: Pupil premium strategy plan

Statement of intent

Challenges

This details the key challenges to achievement that we have identified among our disadvantaged pupils.

Challenge number	Detail of challenge
1	Providing resources and nutrition
2	Accessing services within and beyond school
3	Access to enrichment activities
4	Access to education and social interaction

Intended outcomes

This explains the outcomes we are aiming for by the end of our current strategy plan, and how we will measure whether they have been achieved.

Intended outcome	Success criteria
Pupils have resources they need and are ready for learning	Parents take up uniform and book/resources grants.
Parents are supported to access services within and beyond school	All families have access to parents support
Pupils are supported to access education and social interaction in school	Behaviour and sensory support team and midday supervisors support target pupils
All pupils have access to enrichment activities and residential trips	Barriers to activities removed through supported funding

Activity in this academic year

This details how we intend to spend our pupil premium funding this academic year to address the challenges listed above.

Targeted academic support (for example, tutoring, one-to-one support, structured interventions)

Budgeted cost: £30,671

Activity	Evidence that supports this approach	Challenge number(s) addressed
Additional items to support individual pupils e.g. communication aid, resources for home learning	Pupils have AAC communication resources in place and access to home learning activities.	4, 1
Funding for residential and day trips	Pupils able to attend residential and day trips that enrich the curriculum offer	3, 4
Behaviour and sensory support Specialists	Targeted interventions from specialist staff improve access to learning	2, 4
Free school uniform grants	Families take up offer of uniform grants	1

Wider strategies (for example, related to attendance, behaviour, wellbeing)

Budgeted cost: £87,499

Activity	Evidence that supports this approach	Challenge number(s) addressed
Parent Support Advisors	All pupils have contact with and support from parent advisor.	2, 3, 4
Midday support to support social interaction and play	Targeted support for pupils to engage in communication and interaction with peers during leisure time	3, 4

Total budgeted cost: £118,170

Part B: Review of the previous academic year

Outcomes for disadvantaged pupils

The school had a three year pupil premium strategy for the academic year 2022 - 2025. Data consistently shows that our pupils’ barriers to learning and progression are not linked to their families’ socio-economic context. Our pupils have complex learning difficulties which presents significant barriers to educational achievement. Our strategy was therefore designed to reduce the impact of these barriers. We also sought to raise self-esteem whilst improving behaviour as well as enhancing pupils’ social activities and experiences and providing support to families. This ensured that pupils were supported to have positive wellbeing and to be ready and equipped to access both the formal curriculum and extra-curricular activities and this was achieved for all individuals taking into account their complex needs and starting point.

Type of support	Actual spend	Description	Impact
Family Support Advisors	£53,953	Dedicated FSAs available to support families.	Increase in / support for / generalisation to the home of; - communication skills - positive behaviour - sensory regulation - social interaction - good sleep hygiene - Feeding support - Toileting support - access to benefits and other means of financial and practical support - support with housing issues - support with immigration issues - transport applications / appeal - secondary transfer support
Behaviour and sensory support Specialists	£42,230	Enhanced specialist support for children to support their access to the curriculum	Pupils able to progress against individual learning outcomes through targeted strategies to enable them to access learning.
Additional Midday Support	£27,135	Enhanced staffing / 1:1 support for those children in receipt of pupil premium funding who require it	Support for feeding programmes and increase in engagement, social interaction and positive behaviour during lunch times.
School Uniform Subsidy	£1,761	Children in receipt of Pupil Premium will receive £75 of free uniform per child + 50% discount above £75 of uniform.	Increase in wearing and having enough sets of the school uniform to enable the pupils to feel part of the school community and recognise the expectations of the day through the wearing of the school uniform
Individual Items for individual children	£1,700	Specific items purchased in response to recommendations by Social Workers or Therapists.	This will be specific to the individual.