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

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.

Click here to read information about Pupil Premium from the Department for Education.

Click here for information about effective use of funding.

Please read the documents below which give details of our Pupil Premium Strategy and how we allocate the funding.