PUPIL PREMIUM
Pupil Premium
The Pupil Premium Grant was introduced in April 2011. Schools can use this additional funding to support the children who receive this money in whichever way they wish as long as they can show how the monies have been spent and their impact on standards. Pupil Premium is additional to main school funding.
At Thelwall Community Junior School we will use this funding to provide additional support to our eligible children and work to narrow any gap in attainment
Pupils entitled to pupil premium are:
- Looked After
- Free School Meals
- Children of parents in the “forces”
What Is The Pupil Premium?
“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.” …from the DFE website.
At Thelwall Community Junior School, we use economies of scale to pool the Pupil Premium money to benefit the whole cohort of disadvantaged pupils where and if it is needed.
The review date for pupil premium strategy was Summer 2024. Further updates will be here in September 2024