Pupil Premium
Pupil Premium Funding
Pupil Premium is funding allocated to schools for the purpose of boosting the attainment of pupils from low income families. It is intended to enable schools to provide targeted support to help children reach their full potential.
Funding is allocated for children who are looked after by the Local Authority (CLA) and for every child who is registered for Free School Meals.
Purpose of Pupil Premium (from the DfE Website)
- The Government believes that the Pupil Premium, which is additional to main school funding, is the best way to address the current underlying inequalities between children eligible for free school meals (FSM) and their wealthier peers by ensuring that funding to tackle disadvantage reaches the pupils who need it most.
- In most cases the Pupil Premium is allocated to schools and is clearly identifiable. It is for schools to decide how the Pupil Premium, allocated to schools per FSM pupil, is spent, since they are best placed to assess what additional provision should be made for the individual pupils within their responsibility.
- Schools are free to spend the Pupil Premium as they see fit. However, they will be held accountable for how they have used the additional funding to support pupils from low-income families. New measures will be included in the performance tables that will capture the achievement of those deprived pupils covered by Pupil Premium.
Definitions of groups
Ever 6 FSM
The pupil premium for 2020 to 2021 will include pupils recorded in the January 2020 school census who are known to have been eligible for free school meals (FSM) since May 2014, as well as those first known to be eligible at January 2020. “Ever 6 FSM” means those pupils recorded on the January School Census who were recorded as known to be eligible for Free School Meals (FSM) on any of the termly censuses since Summer 2014. Each pupil will only be counted once: for example, if a pupil on the January Census is recorded as known to be eligible for FSM and was recorded as known to be eligible for FSM on the Summer and Autumn Censuses, they will be counted as one Ever 6 FSM pupil for calculating allocations for the PPG in 2020-2021.
Children adopted from care or who have left care
The pupil premium for 2020 to 2021 will include pupils recorded in the January 2020 school census and alternative provision census who were looked after by an English or Welsh local authority immediately before being adopted, or who left local authority care on a special guardianship order or child arrangements order (previously known as a residence order). These are collectively referred to as post-LAC in these conditions of grant.
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Disadvantaged pupils |
Pupil Premium per pupil |
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Pupils in Year Groups R to 6 recorded as Ever 6 FSM |
£1,345 |
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Pupils in Year Groups 7 to 11 recorded as Ever 6 FSM |
£955 |
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Looked After Children (LAC) |
£2,345 |
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Children adopted from care under the Adoption and Children Act 2002 and children who have left care under a Special Guardianship or Residence Order |
£2,345 |
All schools are required to report on the amount of funding received, how this is being used, and the impact of any work done.
In the 2018/19 academic year St Andrew and St Francis CE Primary received £128,360 in Pupil Premium funding. 98 Pupils
In the 2019/20 academic year St Andrew and St Francis CE Primary received £108,240 in Pupil Premium funding. 82 Pupils
In the 2020/21 academic year St Andrew and St Francis CE Primary received £99,530 in Pupil Premium funding. 74 Pupils