Pupil Premium

In 2011-2012 the Government launched its pupil premium funding.  The pupil premium (PP) 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. 

Since April 2018, the Department for Education have provided a Transitional Protection to make sure that children would not lose their eligibility for Free School Meals when parents are transferred from other benefits to Universal Credit. The Transitional Protection was closed by the Department for Education at the end of the Summer Term so all parents have now been asked to re-apply for Free School Meals (FSM) before the start of the Autumn term in September if they would like their eligibility to continue.

There are now two categories of eligibility, Targeted and Expanded.

Parents in receipt of the following benefits will be entitled to FSM for their children under the Targeted category -

• Universal Credit and the household income is below £7400 per year as assessed by HMRC
• Support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
• Income Based Employment and Support Allowance
• Guarantee Element of State Pension Credit
• Families eligible under the No Recourse to Public Funds criteria (NRPF)

Children eligible through the Targeted category will be entitled to Free School Meals, be included in funding provided to schools for the Deprivation Pupil Premium and will be eligible for Holiday Access Fund vouchers (while the scheme is provided). This may also help with eligibility for Free School Transport. The additional support would also be available for children who would receive a free school meal due to being taught in the Reception, 1 and 2 year groups if their parents were receiving one of the qualifying benefits and made a claim.

Parents in receipt of the following benefits will be entitled to FSM under the Expanded category -

• Universal Credit and the household income is above £7400 per year as assessed by HMRC

Children eligible through the Expanded category will be entitled to Free School Meals only. No other additional support is available through this category of eligibility.

Claims need to be made at the school(s) your child(ren) attend, so if you have children at more than one school, please make sure that you apply for each child at their relevant school.

For both types of eligibility, we will need to recheck your claim(s) once per school year as children will only be eligible for the support explained above while their parents are in receipt of one of the qualifying benefits. If you find that your circumstances change over the course of the school year and you feel that your children’s eligibility needs to be re-checked, please let us know.

If your child moves to a new school over the course of the school year and they were eligible while attending this school, please let the new school know and they can contact us for details.

Please note: Information regarding your annual net earned income is not shared with the school and is checked by Buckinghamshire Council only. 

Pupil Premium Statement of intent

Caring, inspiring and achieving together means giving extra support to our disadvantaged children to help create equity. We use Pupil Premium to actively promote oracy and emotional regulation.

In order to do this we are promoting both oracy and emotional regulation.

We have Languagelink and  Neli available for our EYFS and KS1 pupils.

We also have Speechlink for all our pupils

We are committed to developing oracy in the classroom in these ways: whole class reading, comprehension activities, key language explicitly taught and displayed, talk partners. Use of meta-cognition strategies.

We also teach emotional regulation throughout EYFS, Nurture Group in Year 1 and 2, Time to talk and social groups in KS2. We also offer Lego Therapy and zones of regulation to children who are showing higher levels of need so children learn to understand how their own bodies are responding to different challenges and environments. We then teach a range of strategies that may help children to regulate themselves.

We have purchased Shine resources to target support for children who have been identified as not making expected progress during “lockdown” to provide extra, targeted interventions.