Pupil Premium

Pupil Premium Overview

(from the Department for Education web site) - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium/pupil-premium

Purpose
The pupil premium grant is funding to improve educational outcomes for disadvantaged pupils in state-funded schools in England.

The grant also provides support for children and young people with parents in the regular armed forces, referred to as service pupil premium (SPP). This has been combined into pupil premium payments to make it easier for schools to manage their spending. Pupils that the SPP intends to support are not necessarily from financially disadvantaged backgrounds.

We want to support all schools to use the wealth of evidence of ‘what works’, evaluated by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), to use this funding effectively.

Funding criteria
Pupil premium funding is allocated to eligible schools based on the number of:

• pupils who are recorded as eligible for free school meals, or have been recorded as eligible in the past 6 years (referred to as Ever 6 FSM) 
• children previously looked after by a local authority or other state care, including children adopted from state care or equivalent from outside England and Wales
• Pupil premium is not a personal budget for individual pupils, and schools do not have to spend pupil premium so that it solely benefits pupils who meet the funding criteria. It can be used:
• to support other pupils with identified needs, such as those who have or have had a social worker, or who act as a carer
• for whole class interventions which will also benefit non-disadvantaged pupils

Pupil premium funding is allocated to local authorities based on the number of:

• looked-after children, supported by the local authority
• pupils who meet any of the eligibility criteria and who attend an independent setting, where the local authority pays full tuition fees

For pupils who are looked-after children, funding should be managed by the local authority’s virtual school head (VSH) in consultation with the child’s school.

Details of the funding criteria for SPP is outlined in the Service pupil premium section.

Millfield Primary School - Pupil premium strategy

At Millfield Primary School we want to ensure that our disadvantaged pupils - along with all other pupils - receive the highest quality of education to enable them to be ready for the next stage of their education and their future.

We will use our pupil premium funding to close any attainment gaps that exist between disadvantaged and non disadvantaged pupils in school.

Pupil Premium Strategy Plan - September 2021 (Sept 21 to July 22)

Pupil Premium Strategy Plan - September 2022 (Sept 22 to July 23)

Pupil Premium Strategy Plan - September 2023 (Sept 23 to July 24)

Pupil Premium Strategy Plan - September 2024 (Sept 24 to July 25)