Pupil Premium

1. Introduction

The Pupil Premium is additional funding provided by the Department for Education to enhance the education of social-economically disadvantaged pupils (namely those pupils entitled, or previously entitled, to free school meals (FSM), ‘Children Looked After’ (CLA) or previously ‘Looked After’).

Schools are free to decide on how best to allocate the funds for programmes to support its disadvantaged pupils.

2. Our Strategy

Strategy Statement 2026-2027

Our Pupil Premium Strategy Statement outlines our strategy to support and enable pupils to overcome the challenges to educational achievement. This statement (below) adopts the template provided by the DfE and is in line with the DfE and EEF’s 3-tiered ‘menu of approaches’.

Click here for our Pupil Premium Strategy Statement.

3. How we will measure the effect of the Pupil Premium

We will monitor the effect of the pupil premium through a range of different measures where applicable. This will include:

• Overall academic progress made by disadvantaged pupils in comparison to ‘other’ pupils.
• Level of engagement in educational activities, learning, and other wider extracurricular activities.
• Wider (extracurricular) achievements.
• Behaviour and personal skills development.
• Cognitive or mental health and wellbeing.
• Attendance/punctuality.

The above will be evaluated through a number of ways. This will include:

• Tracking and analysis of pupil data and outcomes.
• Case studies.
• Feedback evaluation.

Date of next review of the strategy:  July 2027

Note: If parents/carers are not sure whether their child can have free school meals, please contact the school and we will be able to assist you in confidence.