Background
The Pupil Premium is allocated to schools for children of statutory school age from low-income families who are known to be eligible for Free school Meals (FSM), to children who have been looked after continuously for more than six months and to children whose parents are currently serving in the armed forces. The money is allocated to initiatives to ensure pupils reach their full potential, both academically and socially. This also includes pupils eligible for FSM at any point in the last six years (known as the Ever 6 FSM measure).
At Lunsford Primary School:
- We ensure that teaching and learning opportunities meet the needs of all of the pupils.
- We ensure that appropriate provision is made for pupils who belong to vulnerable groups, this includes 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 pupil or groups of pupils the school has legitimately identified as being socially disadvantaged.
Early Years Pupil Premium – we will endeavour to identify our least advantaged pupils and inform parents or carers of their opportunity to apply for their child’s entitlement to extra funding in school. All extra funding we receive will be used to support areas in which we identify that the child will best benefit. We will track children’s progress to ensure that they are making good progress and to ensure that support is adjusted to target specific areas as the child develops.
Provision
- Providing small group work with an experienced teacher focused on overcoming gaps in learning
- 1:1 support
- Additional teaching and learning opportunities provided through trained TAs
- Acquiring effective materials aimed at raising standards, particularly in reading and mathematics.
- All our work through the pupil premium will be aimed at accelerating progress moving children to at least age related expectations. Initially this will be in English and Maths.
- Pupil Premium resources may also be used to target able children on FSM to achieve Exceeding at the end of KS1 or Exceeding at the end of KS2.
- The school will publish information on how they have used their Pupil Premium Grant to address the issue of ‘diminishing the difference' for disadvantaged pupils.
Proposed Pupil Premium Spend and Allocation of Funds for 2016-2017
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Pupil Premium Review for 2015-2016
Please click on the link below to view our report on Pupil Premium spend and it's outcomes and impact.