Pupil Premium Funding

Pupil Premium Funding

The Pupil Premium Grant was introduced by the Government in April 2011.  Schools were allocated funding for children who were eligible for free school meals, looked-after children (in public care) and those from families with parents in the Armed Forces.  The Government believes that the PPG is the best way to address the current underlying inequalities between these children and their peers by ensuring that funding to tackle disadvantage reaches the pupils who need it most.

Principles

We ensure that the teaching and learning opportunities meet the needs of all the pupils in the school.
We ensure that the appropriate provision is made for pupils who belong to vulnerable groups, including ensuring that the needs of socially disadvantaged pupils are adequately assessed and addressed.
In making provision for socially disadvantaged pupils, we recognise that not all pupils who receive free school meals will be socially disadvantaged. We also recognise that not all pupils who are socially disadvantaged are registered or qualify for free school meals. We reserve the right to allocate the Pupil Premium funding to support any pupils or groups of pupils the school has identified as being socially disadvantaged.
Pupil Premium funding will be allocated following a needs analysis which will identify classes, groups or individuals.

Provision

The range of provision the Governors may consider include:

Providing reduced class sizes to improve the teacher to pupil ratio thus ensuring increased opportunities for high quality teaching.
Providing small group work from experienced teaching assistants focussed on narrowing the gaps in learning.
1 – 1 support.
Acquiring effective materials aimed at raising standards, particularly in reading, writing and mathematics.
All our work through the Pupil Premium will be aimed at accelerating progress and moving children to at least age related expectations.  The focus will be in Literacy and Numeracy.

You can find further information about the pupil premium in Pupil Premium Frequently Asked Questions (PDF, 174KB, 8 pages) .

Friday 22nd March 2024

Two short half terms has brought us quickly to the end of term. It is amazing how time flies ! It certainly does not seem three years ago that I became headteacher of our school, but looking back I am so proud of each and every member of the school community, for the...

Friday 23rd February 2024

Oh what a night! Young Voice 2024! On Wednesday night, 33 of our amazing children joined over4,500 others from schools across the area in a fantastic show at the Sheffi eld Arena. Joined byprofessional dancers, singers and musicians they certainly brought the house...

Friday 19th January 2024

Happy New Year to you all and welcome back to school. It seems an age ago we had a busy, exciting end of term with Christmas parties, carol concerts and nativities and staff would like to send huge thanks for the gifts and cards received last term. Hopefully over the...

Friday 1st December 2023

Year 1 and 2 Alternative Advent For the past couple of weeks, the Key Stage 1 children have been bringing in their favourite books,all wrapped up! Every day in the run up to Christmas one will be chosen to share with their class.The children are very excited to see...

Friday 27th October 2023

Last week Years 3,4 and 5 went on a visit to York to consolidate their work on Vikings. However,as you will see they also found out more about Tudors and becoming an archaeologist. This is Austen's recount of the day:

Friday 13th October 2023

As there has not been a newsletter for the last few weeks, this edition is just a snippet of what thechildren have been getting up to. A big thank you for your love and support.

Friday 15th September 2023

Welcome Back Welcome to the first newsletter of the year and a huge welcome to our fantastic new receptionchildren who have settled in so beautifully already. What a joy to see them already listening so welland playing so cooperatively with their friends. There has...

Friday 14th July 2023

With only one week left until the summer break this will be the final newsletter of the term and year-and what a busy one it has been!We are so proud of the children in our school- how the have shone in so many ways. This newsletter is just a taster: sports,...

Friday 30th June 2023

For those of you who missed it- we received the results of our recent inspection last week. We are delighted that the inspection team recognised our strengths and that, “At the heart of the school’s ethos is the desire for pupils to shine.” This report reflects the...