Pupil Premium
What is Pupil Premium?
The Pupil Premium is a government initiative that targets extra money for pupils from what are classed as “disadvantaged” backgrounds.
Research shows that pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds underachieve compared to their peers. The premium provided to enable pupils to be supported to reach their potential.
The Government has used pupils entitled to Free School Meals (FSM), Looked After Children and Service Children as indicators of deprivation and have provided a fixed amount of money for schools, per pupil, based on the number of pupils registered for FSM over a six year period.
Pupil Premium Strategy
The Pupil Premium is funding in addition to the school's budget. Schools are free to decide how to allocate this funding to best support the raising of attainment for this group of pupils.
A summary of the main barriers for some children:
- Unmet personal, social, emotional and developmental needs, particularly for children on entry to EYFS.
- Emotional and social needs that impact on learning including mental health and wellbeing.
Our strategy to remove these barriers are outlined in detail within the pupil premium strategy and includes key provision for:
- Pupil Premium/disadvantaged children key priority group in SIP.
- Developing the quality of teaching through use of adaptive inclusive teaching, so pupil progress is accelerated for ALL pupils with a spotlight on PP/disadvantaged.
- Strong leadership of the pupil premium strategy through dedicated member of staff, tracking progress and needs of this group of children in school.
- Targeted interventions that meet individual needs.
- SENCO and Teaching assistant hours for one to one and small group focused teaching.
- Employment of TA’s who supports pupils who have any issues that are affecting their learning in the classroom.
- Employment of Attendance Lead to monitor and action plan attendance plans of Pupil Premium pupils if persistent absence is an issue.
- Bought in support from outside agencies to support eligible children with social and emotional skills input.
- Bought in research backed and accredited resources to support eligible children with social and emotional skills development and resilience.
- Forest Schools/outdoor learning and enrichment provision in all year groups.
- Pupils to fully participate in every area of school life – Sports Clubs AFC fee paying, subsidised educational visits, subsidised After School Club places.
- Support with buying school uniform with school emblem which is more costly is offered to Pupil Premium families 2 x a year, along with daily toast and other feepaying extracurricular clubs.