Pupil Premium

What is Pupil Premium Funding?

The Pupil Premium Grant is additional funding schools receive to help support disadvantaged pupils of all abilities, to perform better and diminish the difference between them and their peers.

Pupil Premium funding is allocated to schools based on the January Census information.

How is the Pupil Premium Grant spent?

According to the Government conditions of grant for Pupil Premium, schools are allowed to make their own decisions as how to best spend the Pupil Premium Grant in line with the following ways:

School leaders are best placed to assess their pupils’ needs and use the funding to improve attainment, drawing on evidence of effective practice. It is up to school leaders to decide how to spend the pupil premium.

Evidence suggests that pupil premium spending is most effective when schools use a tiered approach, targeting spending across 3 areas, with a particular focus on teaching.

1. Teaching

Investing in high-quality teaching, for example:

  • training and professional development for teachers

  • recruitment and retention

  • support for teachers early in their careers

2. Targeted academic support

Additional support for some pupils focussed on their specific needs, for example:

  • one-to-one tuition

  • small group tuition

  • speech and language therapy

3. Wider approaches

Support for non-academic issues that impact success in school, such as attendance, behaviour and social and emotional challenges. For example:

  • school breakfast clubs

  • counselling to support emotional health and wellbeing

  • help with the cost of educational trips or visits

Read the Education Endowment Foundation’s (EEF) pupil premium guide for information about the tiered approach to spending. 

 Please read the information below which gives details of our Pupil Premium Grant and how we allocate the funding.

Key documents

Contact our SENDCO.

If you have any questions, or would like to discuss your child’s needs, please contact Miss Rooney via our contact form.

If the matter is urgent, please contact the front office on 01422 842154.