Pupil Premium

Pupil Premium is additional funding given to publicly funded schools in England to raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils to close the gap between them and their peers. Evidence suggests that pupil premium spending is most effective when used across 3 areas:

1. high-quality teaching, such as staff professional development
2. targeted academic support, such as tutoring
3. wider strategies to address non-academic barriers to success in schools, such as attendance, behaviour, and social and emotional support

The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) recommends that schools particularly focus their pupil premium on supporting high-quality teaching.  Pupil premium is not a personal budget for individual pupils, and schools are not required to spend all of their allocated grant on eligible pupils.

Schools do not have to spend pupil premium so it solely benefits elegible pupils. They can use it wherever they identify the greatest need. For example, they might spend it on pupils who do not get free school meals but:

• have or have had a social worker
• act as a carer
• are asylum seekers or children of student parents who have no access to funding
• do not qualify for Pupil Premium funding but are in need of basic essentials

Using pupil premium funding to improve teaching quality is the most effective way to improve outcomes for disadvantaged pupils. By doing so, schools will inevitably benefit non-eligible pupils as well.

Our Pupil Premium lead is Ms Haigh (interim assistant head).

Our Pupil Premium review team are: The headteacher, Ms Boocker, Ms Haigh, the CLA Lead, the Safeguarding Team (including Learning Mentors).

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