Statutory Information – Hawkswood Group

We are proud of how we support our pupils and work hard to ensure that every penny that comes into school is used to support and enhance the lives of children.

We benefit from the following grants:

Pupil premium
Sports premium
COVID 19 Catch up

Please see the sections below which detail how these funds are spent and the impact on pupils and their learning.

Please also see our core priorities and reintegration data.

Core Priorities - SEF, SDP & Ofsted

”The Teachers help the children that struggle with coming into school and keeping safe” – Year 6 Pupil

Ofsted is the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills. It reports directly to Parliament and is both independent and impartial. By law it must inspect schools with the aim of providing information to parents, to promote improvement and to hold schools to account.

In June 2015 Ofsted graded us as Outstanding.

In January 2019 Ofsted graded us as Outstanding.

“You are rightly proud of your work around pupils’ well-being, and in ensuring that pupils are ready for learning. This has enabled you to establish a calm and purposeful learning environment for pupils despite previous negative experiences of education. Your determined leadership has had a massive impact on the attitudes of, and subsequent opportunities for, your pupils. You have given life chances that would otherwise not be there. You and your staff know each and every pupil exceptionally well and are uncompromising in seeking the absolute best. Consequently, the pupils value the education that they receive” – Lead Ofsted Inspector 2019

You can read our Ofsted reports and our School Evaluation Form (SEF) below. The Hawkswood Primary PRU & SEMH Provision SEF is updated termly. It will be updated again next term.

”We do PE everyday. I used to say I hated PE but here I love it.” – Year 5 Pupil

Physical Education and Sport Premium

We use an innovative PE programme across the whole of the Hawkswood primary called ‘real PE’. Our outcome for 2019/2020 is to have the curriculum embedded as part of our physical education offer to children. This combines real PE with personal challenge, daily mile and aspects of traditional sport across the week.

We fully support the role that physical activity plays in maintaining physical and mental health, for this reason every child at Hawkswood Primary has PE every day.

At Hawkswood Primary School, we believe that every child should enjoy a range of experiences within physical education and sport. Through our extensive curriculum, extra-curricular clubs and entrenchment opportunities, we promote positive attitudes to health and wellbeing, the development of fundamental skills and a love for being active.

Our new PE programme will allow children to follow personal learning journeys based on a FUNdamental skills, and multi-ability approach to teaching and learning. Our curriculum equips children with the essential abilities to maximise potential, and enjoy long-term participation in physical activity and sport. Teaching and learning focuses on three main building blocks for every sporting action, these are known as ‘FUNdamental’ skills:

Agility
Balance
Coordination

The curriculum encourages creativity, collaboration and self-challenge, through six themed units per year, known as ‘multi-abilities’ which include:

Personal skills
Social skills
Cognitive skills
Creative skills
Physical skills
Health related fitness

See attachment at the bottom of this page for the Financial breakdown of our allocated funding for the coming year.

In Key Stage 1, children explore the multi-abilities and FUNdamental skills through songs, stories and personal best challenges. Children begin to develop the notion of moving progressively through challenges until they reach the point of ‘failure’, then working collaboratively they ‘practice perfect’ until they can achieve consistent success. In year 3 and 4 we begin to look at how FUNdamental skills can be combined, and their context in sporting activities. Children experiment with the ‘How?’ and ‘Why?’ of combined skills, collaboratively and creatively exploring the most effective ways of practising and performing more complex sporting actions.

Throughout year 5 and 6, children consolidate and further develop their FUNdamental skills through a range of competitive activities, ranging from outdoor and adventurous team building challenges, to more traditional games such as, seated volley ball, kabaddi and athletics.

Children will begin to explore strategies, tactics and techniques, and to develop the skills needed to decide when and where to apply them. They experience different roles in sport including coach, performer and official and team manager; developing a deeper understanding of rules and ethics.

We will use real PE for three lessons of the five PE lessons a week which our pupils receive. Our remaining two PE lessons per week focus on team skills and problem solving through transiitonal sports and activities.

An extensive range of physical activities support our curriculum and we are starting to form a link to completive opportunities through the national School Games program.

“He took part in Waltham Forest cross country, where he ran for his school in the borough. They made him believe he could do it.” – Year 4 Parent

What is the Sports Premium?

The Government is providing funding of £150 million per annum for academic to provide new, substantial primary school sport funding. This funding is being jointly provided by the Departments for Education, Health and Culture, Media and Sport, and will see money going directly to primary school Head teachers to spend on improving the quality of sport and PE for all their children.

We are held accountable for how we have used the additional funding to support pupils progress and participation in PE and school sport. We are required to publish on-line information about how we have used the additional funding, including details about our sporting provision alongside curriculum details. This will ensure that parents/carers and others are made fully aware of the PE and sporting provision at Hawkswood Primary School.

Purpose of funding

Schools can only spend the sport funding on improving their provision of PE and sport, but they will have the freedom to choose how they do this. Possible uses for the funding include:

– Hiring specialist PE teachers or qualified sports coaches

– Paying for professional development opportunities for sport, running sport competitions, or increasing participation in school games

– Purchasing sports resources & equipment, providing places for pupils on after school sport clubs and holiday clubs.

How will the funding be used at Hawkswood Primary School?

Schools must use the funding to make additional and sustainable improvements to the quality of PE and sport you offer. The government guidelines are as follows;

Develop or add to the PE and sport activities that your school already offers
Build capacity and capability within the school to ensure that improvements made now will benefit pupils joining the school in future years

There are 5 key indicators that schools should expect to see improvement across:

The engagement of all pupils in regular physical activity – the Chief Medical Officer guidelines recommend that all children and young people aged 5 to 18 engage in at least 60 minutes of physical activity a day, of which 30 minutes should be in school
The profile of PE and sport is raised across the school as a tool for whole-school improvement
Increased confidence, knowledge and skills of all staff in teaching PE and sport
Broader experience of a range of sports and activities offered to all pupils
Increased participation in competitive sport

Our sports premium plans and annual review documents are below. Please enjoy reading about the impact that the PE and Sport Premium has had on the pupils at Hawkwsood Primary

Pupil Premium

Pupil premium is funding to improve education outcomes for disadvantaged pupils in schools in England. Evidence shows that disadvantaged children generally face additional challenges in reaching their potential at school and often do not perform as well as other pupils.

We use our pupil premium to fund a range of opportunities to help our pupils reach their potential.

Please see our pupil premium report below.

COVID 19 Catch Up

As a result of COVID-19 young people across the country have experienced an unprecedented disruption to their education. Those from the most vulnerable and disadvantaged backgrounds will have had significant impact to both their education and wellbeing. The funding will allow schools to return to normal educational routines as quickly as possible and allows those hardest hit to catch-up. Schools allocations has been calculated on a per pupil basis, and it will arrive in three tranches with an initial part payment in autumn 2020, a second payment in early 2021, based on updated pupil and place data and a final payment in the summer term. This funding will be used to support students to catch up for lost teaching over the previous months, in line with the guidance on curriculum expectations for the next academic year.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) catch-up premium is to ensure that schools have the support they need to help all children make up for lost teaching time. The funding provided is £240 per pupil.

Hawkswood Primary remained open for the duration of the COVID response. The only time children were at home was during 3 periods of bubble isolation. During this time, we moved to live on-line learning through google classroom. The only exception to this was during our first isolation when many of the staff were sick with COVID19, children were given a combination of work packs, projects and on-line learning.

Our greatest concern is the children who will begin their journey to Hawkswood in the academic year 2021/22, and the life experiences these children may have had throughout lockdown.

Please see our COVID catch up impact reports below.

Reintegration Data

”Hawkswood has helped me to learn to make kind choices’ – Year 2 Pupil

One of the key aims of Hawkswood Primary is to support children to develop the skills required to flourish again at mainstream school or at a suitable long term specialist provision.

We work closely with mainstream schools to enable a gradual return, building attachments and confidence. Some children return to their referring school, others benefit from a fresh start in a new school.

We monitor and track pupils after they have returned to mainstream school, and continue to support the child and school as their new relationship embeds.

We have a very successful reintegration programme, our historic reintegration data is as follows:

Hawkswood Primary Reintegration Data 2020/2021*

9 children were reintegrated from Hawkswood Primary in the year.

Sustained Reintegration to mainstream and/or special schools:

KS1 Nurture Group	KS2 PRU/SEMH Provision	Returned to PRU
100%	80% (40% into specialist provision)	11%

Hawkswood Primary Reintegration Data 2019/20*
13 children were reintegrated from Hawkswood Primary in the year – the year was significantly affected by COVID 19.
Sustained Reintegration to mainstream and/or special schools:

KS1 Nurture Group	KS2 PRU/SEMH Provision	Returned to PRU
66% (small cohort – 1 child)	100% (27% into specialist provision)	24% (small cohort – 1 child)

Hawkswood Primary Reintegration Data 2017/18*
39 children were reintegrated from Hawkswood Primary in the year.
Sustained Reintegration to mainstream and/or special schools:

KS1 Nurture Group	KS2 PRU/SEMH Provision	Returned to PRU
100%	96%	4%

Hawkswood Primary Reintegration Data 2016/17*
27 children were reintegrated from Hawkswood Primary in the year.
Sustained Reintegration to mainstream and/or special schools:

KS1 Nurture Group	KS2 PRU/SEMH Provision	Returned to PRU
88%	84%	15%

Hawkswood Primary Reintegration Data 2015/16*
35 children were reintegrated from Hawkswood Primary in the year.
Sustained Reintegration to mainstream and/or special schools:

KS1 Nurture Group	KS2 PRU/SEMH Provision	Returned to PRU
100%	92%	8%

Hawkswood Primary Reintegration Data 2014/15*
26 children were reintegrated from Hawkswood Primary during the year.
Sustained Reintegration to mainstream and/or special schools:

KS1 Nurture Group	KS2 PRU/SEMH Provision	Returned to PRU
100%	86%	14%

Hawkswood Primary Reintegration Data 2013/14*
18 children were reintegrated from Hawkswood Primary during the year.
Sustained Reintegration to mainstream and/or special schools:

KS1 Nurture Group	KS2 PRU/SEMH Provision	Returned to PRU
100%	80%	20%

Summary

In 2016/17 we had a particularly high level of referrals for children with highly complex needs and significantly high levels of violent behaviours. In Easter 2016/17 our previous Headteacher left and at the beginning of the academic year 2017/18, Marie Gentles (previously deputy head under the old structure) became Head of the PRU and two deputy heads came into post to form a new SLT.
In 2017/18 following a number of changes lead by the new SLT and in response to the borough’s ever-changing needs, including the start of an outreach service, staff CPD and revising the curriculum offer, the number of sustained reintegration’s increased significantly, and we integrated the highest number of pupils in the last 5 years, with the highest rate of success seen in the last 5 years.
Children whose reintegrations are unsuccessful are typically very complex family/social histories but do not have sufficient cognitive delay to meet the SEN assessment threshold under the new Code of Practice. These pupils are frequently require multi-agency support to move them forward.
2019/20 and 2020/21 have been adversely affected by COVID 19, due to the lack of movement from children and to mainstream.

Special Educational Needs & Disability (SEND) and the Local Offer

Hawkswood Primary’s Local offer

Hawkswood Primary is:

A school with a strong Inclusive ethos
A place that values individuality and recognises that each person has an important contribution to make to our society
A provider of equal access and opportunity for all
Continuously, actively seeking to remove the barriers to learning and supports interactive participation of all its children ensuring best outcomes for all

Please see attachments below for a copy of our most recent SEN Information Report.

What is the purpose of Hawkswood Primary’s Local offer?

The School’s Local Offer has two key purposes:

To make provision more responsive to local needs a part of the new Children and Families Act, schools have been directed to produce a Local Offer. The Local Offer will change as services, policies and guidance changes. The school will regularly evaluate the breadth and impact of interventions and support it offers and accesses. Reasonable adjustments will be made to promote equality and inclusion.
To provide clear, comprehensive and accessible information about the support as well as criteria for support and opportunities which are available.

Hawkswood Primary School has a Provision Map Record which is a register of all students who receive additional support in the following categories:

– Children who require SEN Support: Your child is receiving extra intervention to support them to achieve their expected level e.g. Literacy intervention both in and outside of the classroom OR that your child has an outside agency working with them e.g. Speech and Language Therapist, Play Therapist, Occupational Therapist, Visual impairment team or Educational Psychologist .

– Children who have an Education and Health Care Plan (EHCP): Your child has been identified as having needs that require extra support to access the curriculum. They will be entitled to additional adult support with learning and a high level of differentiation from class teachers.

How does Hawkswood Primary School know that children need help?

Children may be identified as having additional SEN (Special Educational Needs) through a variety of ways including the following:

Liaison with the pupils Mainstream school
Child performing below age expected levels
Concerns raised by Parent
Through termly Pupil Progress Meetings
Concerns raised around behaviour or self-esteem and how it could be affecting performance
Liaison with external agencies
Health diagnosis through paediatrician/doctor

As a school we measure children’s progress in learning against national expectations and age-related expectations. The class teacher continually assesses each child and notes areas where they are improving and where further support is needed. As a school, we track children’s progress from entry to the PRU, with baseline assessments using a variety of different methods including National Curriculum levels and the Foundation Stage Profiles.

What should I do if I think that my child needs help?

Talk to us – firstly contact your child’s class teacher. If you require more information contact our Head Teacher (Mrs. Gentles) or Deputy Head Teachers (Ms. Mwaniki & Mrs L’Aimable). We pride ourselves on building positive relationships with parents. We are open and honest with parents and hope that you are able to do the same with us.

How will the curriculum support my child’s needs?

All work within class is pitched at an appropriate level so that all children are able to access the curriculum according to their specific needs. Typically this might mean that in a lesson there would be three different levels of work set for the class, however on occasions this can be individually differentiated. The benefit of this type of differentiation is that all children can access each lesson and learn at their level.

Please click on the link below to view our local offer.

Waltham Forest’s Local Offer is available on the Waltham Forest Website and tells parents how to access services in their area and what to expect from these services

Hawkswood Primary SEN Information Report