Pupil Premium

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What is Pupil Premium?

The pupil premium grant provides funding to improve educational outcomes for disadvantaged pupils in England.

The grant also provides support for children and young people of service families, referred to as service pupil premium (SPP).

How is funding allocated to schools?

Pupil premium funding is allocated based on the number of:

  • pupils who are recorded as eligible for free school meals, or have been recorded as eligible in the past 6 years (referred to as Ever 6 FSM)
  • children previously looked after by a local authority or other state care, including children adopted from state care or equivalent from outside England and Wales

Is your child eligible for free school meals?

Any child may qualify for a free school meal if you receive one of the following benefits:

  • Universal Credit with an annual earnings threshold that does not exceed £7,400. 
  • Income Support.
  • Income Based Jobseekers Allowance.
  • Income-related Employment and Support Allowance.
  • Child Tax Credit (provided a parent is not entitled to Working Tax Credit) and have an annual income, as assessed by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, that does not exceed £16,190.
  • Working Tax Credit run on - paid for 4 weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit.
  • Guaranteed Element of State Pension Credit.
  • Support under part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.

Please call in the school office for further details if you think your child might be eligible for free school meals.

What should the funding be spent on?

Pupil premium is not a personal budget for individual pupils, and schools do not have to spend pupil premium so that it solely benefits pupils who meet the funding criteria. It can be used:

  • to support other pupils with identified needs, such as those who have or have had a social worker, or who act as a carer
  • for whole class interventions which will also benefit non-disadvantaged pupils

Schools must allocate spending across the following three key areas:

  • Support high-quality teaching, such as staff professional development
  • Provide targeted academic support, such as tutoring
  • Tackle non-academic barriers to academic success, such as difficulties with attendance, behaviour, and social and emotional wellbeing.

Please take a look at our pupil premium plan (at the top of the page) to see how the funding is being spent in our school.