School Premiums, Policies and Financial Benchmarking
Schools are provided with additional funding, ‘premiums’, from the government in order to support targeted pupils and/or develop specified areas of the curriculum. We are currently in receipt of three types of additional funding. The details of which are listed below:
Pupil Premium
The government defines pupil premium as funding aimed ‘to improve education outcomes for disadvantaged pupils in schools in England’.
Available here is our current strategy for the use of pupil premium funding.
This plan outlines how funding will be used to support pupils during the current academic year and information on how pupil premium was allocated, and the impact of its expenditure, last academic year.
Further information can be found at www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium/pupil-premium
PE and Sport Premium
The PE and sport premium is given to primary schools, via government funding, ‘to make additional and sustainable improvements to the quality of the PE, physical activity and sport offered. Physical activity has numerous benefits for children and young people’s physical health, as well as their mental wellbeing’.
The allocation and impact of PE and sport premium funding on our school can be viewed here.
As part of the commitment to P.E. funding, schools are asked to report the percentage of Year 6 pupils who were able to swim confidently and proficiently (a distance of at least 25 metres), use a range of strokes effectively and perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations. Of the first cohort we were able to assess followning the COVID 19 pandemic, 92% met this requirement.
COVID-19 Catch-up Premium
For the 2020/21 academic year, the school is in receipt of the coronavirus catch-up premium grant.
For details on how the grant is to be spent and the impact on the educational attainment of the pupils identified click here.