Pupil Premium

What is Pupil Premium?

The Pupil Premium is an allocation of funding, in addition to main school funding, which schools receive according to the number of children in specific groups.

Schools receive Pupil Premium funding for:

• children who have been eligible for free school meals at any point in the last 6 years
• children who are looked after (they are in Local Authority Care)
• promoting high standards of education and achievement
• planning the schools long term future
• setting the school’s aims and values
• children adopted from care and children who have left care under a Special Guardianship or Residence Order
• children recorded as ‘ever 4’ service child or are in receipt of a child pension from the ministry of defence

The government awards this funding to help raise achievement for these children. It is up to individual schools to decide how the Pupil Premium is spent, but this funding should be used to support these children.

Is Your Child Eligible?

Please check whether or not your child is eligible for the Pupil Premium; if they are the school is entitled to additional funding for them whether or not you wish your child to have a school meal at lunchtimes. Even if your child is in KS1 and receives a free meal automatically you must make an application in order for us to receive Pupil Premium for them. Your child is likely to be eligible if you receive one or more of the following benefits:

• Income Support
• Income-based Job Seekers’ Allowance
• Income-related Employment and Support Allowance
• Support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
• The Guaranteed element of State Pension Credit
• Child Tax Credit, provided you are not also entitled to Working Tax Credit, and have an annual gross income, of no more than £16,190 as assessed by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs
• Working Tax Credit run-on – paid for 4 weeks after you stop qualifying for working tax credit.

You can check if you are eligible by visiting pps.lgfl.org.uk.  Otherwise please speak to a member of staff in the school office who will be able to help you.

All schools are required (from September 2016) to publish, on their websites, their Pupil Premium Strategy. This explains how the funding was spent in the previous academic year and what impact this had and, for the current academic year what funding they have received, a summary of the barriers to achievement, how the money is being used, how the impact of this will be measured and the dates for when the strategy will next be reviewed.

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