Pupil Premium

The government currently provides schools with additional funding to support the learning and development of certain groups of eligible children.  This is known as Pupil Premium funding and is currently available to children who satisfy any of the following criteria:

• Children who are eligible for Free School Meals (FSM) or who have been recorded as eligible in the past 6 years (known as Ever 6 FSM)
• Children previously looked after by a local authority or other state care, including children adopted from state care or equivalent outside from England and Wales 
• Children who have at least one parent serving in the regular armed forces (including pupils with a parent who is on full commitment as part of the full-time reserve service) or have been registered as a 'service child' on any school census in the past 6 years

The aim of pupil premium funding is to reduce the gap in progress and attainment currently evident between children who fall within the criteria above and those who do not.  The intended outcome is to ensure parity in progress and attainment for Pupil Premium and Non Pupil Premium children. To redress the current imbalance, Pupil Premium funding can be used to target specific interventions as identified Pupil Premium children with the aim of accelerating their current rate of progress.

Schools are free to spend the Pupil Premium as they see fit.  However, we will be held accountable for how we have used the additional funding to support pupils from low-income families. All schools are now required to publish online information about how they have used the Premium funding. This will ensure that parents and others are made fully aware of the attainment of pupils covered by the Premium and the extra support that they receive.

Our School

In the academic year 2022-23, we will receive additional funding of £26,260 to support the 16 children we currently have in school who are eligible for pupil premium support. We intend to allocate this funding to provide a range of activities and interventions to support those eligible children and will combine this with the financial support offered through the catch up funding. The aim of the support is to ensure all children eligible for this additional funding make maximum progress throughout the year and are happy and contented members of our school community. If necessary, intervention financing will be supplemented from the wider school budget to ensure we are providing tailored and effective support for all. 

Current Impact

There is now in place a thorough process of plan, do and review for all children who are in receipt of the pupil premium funding. Their individual progress is monitored continually, with termly progress meetings in which provision for those children is evaluated specifically. We have worked in collaboration with partnership schools to conduct a review of how we spend our pupil premium funding and have a growing bank of pupil premium case files on which to evaluate our investments. Having considered progress throughout the school, we are pleased to report that our latest KS2 results demonstrate excellent progress and attainment for our Pupil Premium children with 100% of disadvantaged students reaching the expected standard at the end of KS2 in summer 2022.

Please see our Annual Pupil Premium Statement attached below: