What is the Pupil Premium Grant?
Introduced in 2011, the Pupil Premium Grant is a sum of money given to schools each year by the Government to improve the attainment of children.
This is based on research showing that children from low income families perform less well at school than their peers. Often, but not always, children who are entitled to Pupil Premium face challenges such as poor language and communication skills, less family support, lack of confidence and issues with attendance and punctuality. The Pupil Premium Grant is intended to directly benefit the children who are eligible, helping to diminish the difference between them and their classmates.
The Pupil Premium Grant (PPG) at Greasley Beauvale Primary School, for academic year 2019-2020, is £79,720.
Full details on the spending of the funding and the rationale behind such approaches, can be read in the school's strategy link at the bottom of the page.
How to claim your child’s Pupil Premium...
There is a form available at the school office, this will check if you are eligible for Pupil Premium funding.
Your child may be eligible for free school meals – and accordingly Pupil Premium Funding – if you receive any of the following benefits:
These benefits are changing and have now been rolled into a single benefit, called Universal Credit. All pupils who were eligible for school meals up to April 2018 will still receive free meals.
Please note, all children in Reception, Year 1 and 2 qualify for free school meals, regardless of their family income, but only the children who would have qualified for free meals under the above income-based criteria will receive the additional funding.
More information about Pupil Premium Funding can be found on: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-conditions-of-grant-2018-to-2019/pupil-premium-2018-to-2019-conditions-of-grant
If you have any questions please don't hesitate to pop in to the school office and speak to a member of staff.
How can I ensure the school gets the funding?
The more eligible pupils that are registered the more funding the school receives. Registering does not mean that your child has to have school dinners.
You should still register for even if:
What funding does the school receive for eligible children?
Schools are given a Pupil Premium grant of £1,320 for:
Schools will receive £2,300 for any pupil:
Schools are given a Pupil Premium grant of £300 for:
Pupils in year groups reception to year 6 recorded as Ever 6 Service Child or in receipt of a child pension from the Ministry of Defence.
How we spend the Pupil Premium funding:
Schools can choose how to spend their Pupil Premium money, as they are best placed to identify what would be of most benefit to the children who are eligible.
Depending on priorities for the child there are a variety of ways in which the school would utilise the funding available.
In short, the ways in which we spend the Pupil Premium grant on eligible pupils includes:
Main barriers to educational achievement faced by eligible pupils:
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What is the impact of the expenditure on other pupils?
Often, all of the children in a class will reap some benefit from how the school spends its Pupil Premium. At Greasley Beauvale Primary School, we feel that children who do not receive the Pupil Premium funding still benefit from the grant in the following ways:
Last review with the PP link governor: Summer 2019 (see link below)
Next Review date: The next strategy update will be in place by the end of the autumn term.
How was the grant spent and what was the impact?
Previous Year (2018-19 update to be added in October 2019)
PP Grant Allocation: £65,220
Intervention & Support
In addition to first quality teaching and in-class teaching assistant support:
End of KS2 attainment
9 disadvantaged pupils
Reading, Writing, Maths Combined
'Expected Standard' = 44% (Dis) 60% (other)
Achieving a higher standard = 11% (Dis) 12% (other)
Year 6 Reading
'At expected' = 56% (Dis) 72% (other)
Achieving a higher standard = 22% (Dis) 19% (other)
Year 6 Writing
'At expected' = 44% (Dis) 66% (other)
Greater Depth = 11% (Dis) 16% (other)
Year 6 English Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling
'At expected' = 78% (Dis) 70% (other)
High Scaled Score = TBC% (Dis) TBC% (other)
Year 6 Maths
'At expected' = 67% (Dis) 79% (other)
Exceeding the expected standard = 33% (Dis) 28% (other)
End of KS1 attainment
8 disadvantaged pupils
Reading Writing Maths
All = 67% (Nat. predicted:76%) All = 63% (70%) All = 67 (76%)
Dis = 63% Dis = 50% Dis = 63%
Other = 67% Other = 65% Other = 67%
Year 1 Phonics attainment
7 disadvantaged pupils
All = 82% (Nat: 82%)
Dis = 57%
Other = 83%
As a school we strive to reduce any gaps in attainment through accelerated progress for each and every child eligible for PP.
Impact