Pupil Premium Grant

The pupil premium is additional funding for publicly funded schools in England to raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils of all abilities and to close the gaps between them and their peers.

Pupil Premium Grant Reports

Our Pupil Premium Lead is Mrs Wolstenholme and she reports how the grant is spent to the Governing Body. Pupil Premium funding is to provide additional support to pupils entitled to/have been entitled to free school meals in the last 6 years, or pupils who are looked after by the Local Authority, so that their attainment can be maximised.

In making provision for Pupil Premium children, we recognise that not all pupils who receive free school meals will be socially disadvantaged.  We also recognise that not all pupils who are socially disadvantaged are registered for, or qualify for free school meals.  Therefore, we reserve the right to allocate the pupil premium funding to support  any pupil that the school has legitimately identified as being socially disadvantaged.

This funding is used to provide many support systems and interventions.  These fall into 5 categories:

• Addressing and assessing learning needs; phonics, spelling, grammar and reading comprehension, taught in flexible ability groups.
• Addressing and assessing educational need through specialist assessment and individualised pupil programmes (both for educational and behavioural purposes).  This provision includes on site speech and language therapy, which is funded by the school.
• Addressing and assessing EAL needs, particularly for new arrivals to the country. 
• Addressing and assessing social need: accessing support for families via school –based programmes, such as school uniform, breakfast and after school clubs and food bank vouchers.
• Providing enrichment to encourage learning and set a context for it: trips and visits, visitors, sports, art and a practical and first hand daily experience.