Pupil Premium Strategy Statement 2021-2024

In line with Government guidance, our strategy is a three year plan setting out our aims for suporting our disadvantaged pupils and wider school community. The document also includes the impact of previous years' spend and impact on attainment.

The pupil premium is additional funding for publicly funded schools in England to raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils of all abilities and to close the gaps between them and their peers.

Pupil premium funding is available to:

• schools maintained by the local authority, including:
  • special schools, for children with special educational needs or disabilities
  • pupil referral units (PRUs), for children who can’t go to a mainstream school
• academies and free schools, including:
  • special academies, for children with special educational needs or disabilities
  • alternative provision (AP) academies, for children who can’t go to a mainstream school
• voluntary-sector AP, with local authority agreement
• non-maintained special schools (NMSS), for children with special educational needs as approved by the Secretary of State for Education under section 342 of the Education Act 1992

Pupil premium in the 2023- 2024 academic year

As in previous years, school will continue to use the pupil premium to improve the attainment of our disadvantaged pupils. The disproportionately high impact of COVID-19 on the education of disadvantaged pupils makes this more important than ever.

For 2023-2024, school is required to:

• use our recovery premium alongside our pupil premium funding and report on our use of them as a single sum in our strategy statement
• use the template provided for by the Government to publish our strategy statement
• publish our strategy statement by 31 December 2023 

Free school meals

Schools get £1,320 for every primary age pupil, or £935 for every secondary age pupil, who claims free school meals, or who has claimed free school meals in the last 6 years.

From April 2020 the new rates will be:

• £1,345 per primary-aged pupil

Schools can access £2,345 for every pupil who has left local authority care through adoption, a special guardianship order or child arrangements order.

Local authorities get the same amount for each child they are looking after; they must work with the school to decide how the money is used to support the child’s Personal Education Plan.