What is the Pupil Premium?
The pupil premium is additional funding for schools in England. It is designed to help disadvantaged pupils of all abilities perform better, and close the gap between them and their peers.
What barriers do disadvantaged scholars face?
The barriers and challenges disadvantaged scholars face are complex and varied – there is no single difficulty faced by all. However, through discussions with scholars and staff, we have identified broad areas that we feel often affect the progress of disadvantaged scholars. These include: vocabulary gap, working memory, homework completion and attendance.
To support disadvantaged scholars, we aim to:
- Draw on research, best practice in and evidence from our own experience to direct funding to a school offer that is most likely to maximise achievement.
- Devise a carefully sequenced and challenging curriculum which ensures our disadvantaged scholars have access to “the best thought and said.”
- Never confuse eligibility for the Pupil Premium with low ability, and focus on supporting our disadvantaged scholars to achieve the highest grades.
- All scholars receive high quality classroom teaching, to maximise all scholars’ progress across the curriculum in particular our disadvantaged scholars.
- To ensure scholars have an understanding about how their memory works and our disadvantaged scholars are able to memorise and recall knowledge.
- Ensure parents are aware of how to apply for free school meals and encourage parents to do so. Please see here.
- Have a deep understanding of the individual needs of disadvantaged scholars, through year 7 interviews.
- Ensure all disadvantaged scholars make excellent progress and achieve their full potential.
- Ensure we recognise that not all scholars who are socially disadvantaged are registered or qualify for free school meals and reserve the right to allocate the pupil premium funding to support any scholars or groups of scholars the school has legitimately identified as being socially disadvantaged.
How much is the Pupil Premium worth?
Secondary schools receive £955 funding for each pupil registered as eligible for free school meals (FSM) at any point in the last 6 years.
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