What is Pupil Premium?

Pupil Premium is additional funding provided to schools by national government.

It has been awarded to schools to help them to ‘narrow the gap’ in performance that exists nationally between vulnerable pupils and their peers.

The level of funding allocated to schools is based upon the number of pupils who:

• are eligible for free school meals or have been eligible in the previous six years
• have been looked after, or are covered by a guardianship or residency order
• have been adopted from care
• have a parent serving in the armed forces

In developing our strategy we used research from the Education Endowment Foundation and looked at their Guide to The Pupil Premium. All staff have been provided with a copy of the report.

Our strategy focuses on three key area:

• Whole school strategy that focuses on all pupils
• Focussed support to target under-performing pupils
• Specific support to target pupil premium pupils

As part of our pupil strategy we have identified the following barriers to learning:

• Vulnerable Families
• Pupils with social, emotional and health needs
• High pupil mobility
• Persistent absences
• Lack of parental encouragement and support for pupils learning
• School readiness (low academic baselines on entry, age appropriate readiness)

You can find out about how we measure the impact of Pupil Premium, our approach to individualised support, get an overview of our setting, see disadvantaged pupil progress scores for the last academic year, learn about our strategy aims for disadvantaged pupils, our teaching priorities for current academic year, our targeted academic support for the current academic year, our wider strategies and how we will monitor the implementation, together with a review of last year’s aims and outcomes, in the attached Pupil Premium Strategy.