Pupil Premium Grant
In 2011 the government introduced the pupil premium grant. This is a sum of money given to schools each year by the government to improve the progress and attainment of disadvantaged children. Evidence shows that children from disadvantaged backgrounds generally face extra challenges in reaching their potential at school and often do not perform as well as their peers. School leaders to decide how to spend the pupil premium because they are best placed to assess their pupils’ needs. Each year we publish information about how we have spent the previous year’s funding with a review of its impact, and information about how we are intending to spend future funding.
Further Information about the pupil premium grant can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium/pupil-premium
3 year Pupil Premium Strategy review
Eligibility
The information about eligibility refers to an entitlement to Free School Meals. In infant schools all children are entitled to free school meals, but the pupil premium grant is not just about free school meals. It is about funding that will impact upon the support the school is able to offer. The Pupil Premium is additional funding paid to schools in respect of their disadvantaged pupils (those who are registered for free school meals (FSM) at any point in the last six years or who are looked after continously by the local authority for more than six months). Your child may be entitled to additional support via Pupil Premium Grant if you are in receipt of any of the following:
- Income Support
- income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
- income-related Employment and Support Allowance
- support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
- the guaranteed element of Pension Credit
- Child Tax Credit (provided you’re not also entitled to Working Tax Credit and have an annual gross income of no more than £16,190)
- Working Tax Credit run-on - paid for 4 weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit
- Universal Credit - if you apply on or after 1 April 2018 your household income must be less than £7,400 a year (after tax and not including any benefits you get.
To check if you are eligible please click on this link.
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