Pupil Premium

Pupil Premium is additional funding from the Department for Education to support specific pupils aged 5-16. This can be used to support specific or specialist intervention or resources to impact on pupils learning.

Your child is eligible for pupil premium if they are in receipt of free school meals or have been eligible within the past six years, children who have been adopted from care or who have left care, or children who are looked after by the local authority.

The Government states that, "The pupil premium grant is funding to improve educational outcomes for disadvantaged pupils in state-funded schools in England." The grant also provides support for children and young people with parents in the regular armed forces, 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. Your child is eligible for Service pupil premium if one of their parents is serving in the regular armed forces (including pupils with a parent who is on full commitment as part of the full-time reserve service, and also pupils whose parent is serving in the armed forces of another nation and is formally stationed in England), they have previously registered as a 'service child' in any school census in the last 6 years, one of their parents died while serving in the armed forces and the pupil receives a pension under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme or the War Pensions Scheme.  (Source: DfE Pupil Premium Overview, September 2024)

Pupil Premium is not a personal budget for individual children and is spent according to the DfE's "Menu of Approaches." The menu aligns with the EEF’s 3-tiered approach and reflects evidence that Pupil Premium funding is most effective when spent in the following three areas:

> Developing high-quality teaching, for example through professional development and recruitment and retention.
> Providing targeted academic support, such as one-to-one or small group tuition.
> Tackling non-academic barriers to academic success, such as difficulties with attendance, behaviour and social and emotional wellbeing.
(Source: DfE Pupil Premium Overview, September 2024)

Our Pupil Premium Strategy, below, states how we intend to spend our Pupil Premium allocation, within these areas, for this year as well as the impact of the previous years' spending.

If you think your child might be eligible for free school meals, please click here for further information.