Pupil Premium

Purpose

Pupil Premium, which is additional to main school funding, is an effective way to address the current underlying inequalities between children eligible for free school meals (FSM) and their peers by ensuring that funding to tackle disadvantage reaches the pupils who need it most. The pupil premium was introduced in April 2011 and is allocated to schools to work with pupils who have been registered for free school meals at any point in the last six years (known as ‘Ever 6 FSM’). Schools also receive funding for children who have been looked after continuously for more than six months, and children of service personnel.

Eligability

Pupil Premium funding is additional funding given to schools to support pupils who are eligible.  There are a variety of reasons why your child may be entitled to this funding which includes:

• If they are on Free School Meals or have been at any point in the last 6 years
• If they are a Looked After Child (in the care of the Local Authority)
• If they have previously been a Looked After Child and are now adopted from care or are under a Special Guardianship Order or a Child Arrangements Order or a Residence Order
• If they have a parent in the military or has been in the military over the past 5 years or are in receipt of a child pension from the Ministry of Defence 

Accountability

The government believes that head teachers and school leaders should decide how to use the pupil premium. They are held accountable for the decisions they make through:

• The performance tables which show the performance of disadvantaged pupils compared with their peers
• The Ofsted inspection framework, under which inspector focus on the attainment of pupil groups, and in particular those who attract the pupil premium
• The reports for parents that schools have to publish online

The Pupil Premium Governor is Mrs Joanne Fairbrother

The document below shows how we use this funding in school and what impact it is having. 

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