Pupil Premium Funding

What is the Pupil Premium?

The Pupil Premium is additional funding given to schools so that they can provide personalised support to pupils qualifying for the grant and close any attainment gap between them and their peers.

For pupils registered for free school meals at any point in the last six years, schools receive £1320 per pupil.

For pupils registered as having left local authority care as a result of adoption, a special guardianship order, a child arrangements order or who have been in local authority care or looked after, schools receive £2300 per pupil.

Pupils from Service families also receive Pupil Premium Funding at the level of £300 per child.

Pupil Premium Funding is also received for eligible pupils in Early Years settings. This is funded at 53p per hour for each universal entitlement hour spent at their setting each term. 

If you think your child may be eligible for additional funding please contact the school office.

Accountability

The government believes that head teachers and school leaders should decide how to use the pupil premium. They are held accountable for the decisions they make through:

-the performance tables which show the performance of pupils who attract the pupil premium compared with their peers

-the Ofsted inspection framework, under which inspectors focus on the attainment of pupil groups, and in particular those who attract the pupil premium

-the reports for parents that schools have to publish online

The link below provides information about our pupil premium strategy. It includes an evaluation of last year's funding.