Pupil Premium - information overview, strategy plan and review

Pupil Premium - eligibility and strategy plan

PUPIL PREMIUM

 

What is Pupil Premium?

The pupil premium is additional funding for publicly funded schools in England to raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils of all abilities and to close the gaps between them and their peers.

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

Funding

Schools will receive the following funding for each child registered as eligible for free school meals at any point in the last 6 years:

  • £1,480 for pupils in reception year to year 6

Schools will also receive £2,570 for each pupil identified in the spring school census as having left local-authority care because of 1 of the following:

  • adoption
  • a special guardianship order
  • a child arrangements order
  • a residence order

If a pupil has been registered as eligible for free school meals and has also left local-authority care for any of the reasons above, they will attract the £2,570 rate.

Children who have been in local-authority care for 1 day or more also attract £2,570 of pupil premium funding. Funding for these pupils is managed by the virtual school head (VSH) in the local authority that looks after the child.

The Pupil Premium funding for 2024 - 2025 is £6620
 
Please see below the Pupil Premium Strategy Plan for 2024 - 2025. This details planned expenditure and anticipated impact using evidence based strategies. A review of expenditure from 2023-2024 is also included in the document.