What is Pupil premium?

Pupil Premium is a Government initiative, which provides additional funding aimed at children from deprived backgrounds. Research clearly shows established links between deprivation and educational underachievement, with the grant enabling schools to support these children in overcoming any barriers they may have in successfully engaging with their education. The Pupil Premium is provided in order to support these children to reach their full potential by accelerating their progress and providing them with experiences which may not normally be available to them. 

DfE Information

The pupil premium is additional funding for publicly funded schools in England.

Pupil premium funding is available to schools maintained by the local authority, including:

• schools for children with special educational needs or disabilities
• pupil referral units (PRUs), for children who can’t go to a mainstream school academies and free schools, including:
• academies for children with special educational needs or disabilities
• alternative provision (AP) academies, for children who can’t go to a mainstream school
• voluntary-sector AP, with local authority agreement
• non-maintained special schools (NMSS), for children with special educational needs as approved by the Secretary of State for Education under section 342 of the Education Act 1992

This year our Pupil Premium Plan reflects the diverse range of income streams available to support our disadvantaged and vulnerable pupils covering a three year period. We have used our funding to enable children to make accelerated progress in the core subjects. 

Our key principles are:

• We recognise that all children can make progress and succeed with the right level of support and curriculum design and believe that early intervention enables a positive growth mindset.
• We have identified the key areas of disadvantage and adapt our curriculum design so that all pupils are challenged in their learning.
• We are a trauma informed school and use a behaviour recovery approach so that children understand they have the power to change their lives by learning to be resilient and take risks in their learning.

Please read the document below for a more detailed breakdown and impact of last year's work.