Pupil Premium
Purpose
The pupil premium grant provides funding to improve educational outcomes for disadvantaged pupils in state-funded schools in England.
The grant also provides support for children and young people of service families, referred to as service pupil premium (SPP). This has been combined into pupil premium payments to make it easier for schools to manage their spending. Pupils that the SPP intends to support are not necessarily from financially disadvantaged backgrounds.
All schools use the wealth of evidence of ‘what works’, evaluated by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), to use their allocated funding effectively to drive high and rising standards for disadvantaged pupils.
Funding criteria
Pupil premium funding is allocated to eligible schools based on the number of:
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pupils who are recorded as eligible for free school meals, or have been recorded as eligible in the past 6 years (referred to as Ever 6 FSM)
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children previously looked after by a local authority or other state care, including children adopted from state care or equivalent from outside England and Wales
Pupil premium is not a personal budget for individual pupils, and schools do not have to spend pupil premium so that it solely benefits pupils who meet the funding criteria. It can be used:
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to support other pupils with identified needs, such as those who have or have had a social worker, or who act as a carer
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for whole class interventions which will also benefit non-disadvantaged pupils
How the grant is used
The pupil premium grant is used to:
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develop high-quality teaching, for example through professional development and recruitment and retention
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provide targeted academic support, such as one-to-one or small group tuition
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tackle non-academic barriers to academic success, such as difficulties with attendance, behaviour and social and emotional wellbeing
Please use this link to check eligibility and apply for Free School Meals for your child
