Pupil Premium
What is the Pupil Premium?
The pupil premium is additional funding given to schools to raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils and close the gap between them and their non-disadvantaged peers. The funding is allocated to schools on the basis of the number of:
- Pupils in receipt of free school meals at any point in the last 6 years (Ever 6 FSM)
- Looked After Children (LAC, adopted of special guardianship)
- Pupils who have left care through adoption or another formal route such as a special guardianship order or child arrangement order
- Service children
This money is used to help disadvantaged pupils overcome any barriers to their learning and to ensure they reach their full potential.
The Pupil Premium is used for 3 main goals:
- to support high-quality teaching, such as staff professional development or software to support diagnostic assessment.
- to provide targeted academic support, such as tutoring.
- to tackle non-academic barriers to academic success, such as difficulties with attendance, behaviour and social and emotional wellbeing
"Schools, headteachers and teachers will decide how to use the Pupil Premium allocation, as they are best placed to assess what additional provision should be made for individual pupils."
Source: DFE website
