The Pupil Premium is additional funding for publicly funded schools in England to raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils and close the gap between them and their peers.
How is the Pupil Premium allocated?
It is allocated to:
- children from low-income families who are currently known to be eligible for FSM or have been at any point in the previous six years. The funding allocated is based on school census figures for pupils registered as eligible for FSM in Nursery to Year 6.
- children who have been looked after continuously for more than six months
How can schools spend the Pupil Premium?
It is for schools to decide how the Pupil Premium is spent. We use the Education Endowment Foundation's Toolkit to help us choose the most best ways to support disadvantaged pupils.
At St Mary Redcliffe Primary School the funding will be used to pay for:
- *Additional 1:1 and small group acceleration programmes e.g. for literacy, for numeracy
- *Additional Learning Support Assistants
- *Access to and resources to support learning in school and at home
- *Supporting families with the costs for educational visits and Year 6 Camp
- *Supporting families with the costs for extra curricula clubs
- *Supporting parents and carers with their reading, writing and maths skills in order that they may help their children's learning at home
- *Having the Bridge Foundation working in partnership with us in school to support children's emotional needs
- *Employing a Family Link Worker to support families to help their children achieve
- *Supporting Breakfast Club to encourage attendance and a positive start to the day's learning
- *Training staff to ensure access to high quality teaching and learning in every class.
We continually review our spending and think of new ways to support children.