We recognise that the progress and attainment of our students who are eligible for Pupil Premium funding is a benchmark of our success at Holmer Green Senior School. Our primary strategy is to ensure high quality first wave teaching for all students eligible for Pupil Premium funding. Students who are eligible for Pupil Premium funding are all individuals who have differing strengths and needs. At Holmer Green Senior School we have a strategy of bespoke intervention to ensure all our disadvantaged students flourish.

Our current priorities are to:

1. Close the progress and attainment gap between disadvantaged students and their non-disadvantaged peers

2. Provide quality first-wave teaching for all students.

3. Close the attendance gap between disadvantaged students and non-disadvantaged peers by removing barriers.

4. Ensure that all disadvantaged students have access to a broad range of personal development opportunities.

 We plan to do this by:

• Ensuring all teachers are aware of all disadvantaged students' barriers to learning, and employ strategies to diminish them.

• Implementing targeted academic interventions aimed at closing progress and attainment gaps.

• Using NGRT tools to track student reading ages, providing the necessary intervention support when required.

• Using a staged response addressing concerns with attendance.

• Tracking the participation of disadvantaged students across personal development initiatives.

• Providing highly effective counselling services and outreach provisions when appropriate.

• Providing excellent options, destinations and careers guidance to all students.