Pupil Premium
What is Pupil Premium Funding?
The Pupil Premium is an allocation of additional funding provided to schools to support specific groups of children who are vulnerable to possible underachievement. These include pupils who are entitled to free school meals, those looked after by the local authority and those now adopted but formerly looked after. Since 2012, funding has been extended to include pupils who have been eligible for free school meals at any time within the last 6 years. Nationally, statistics have shown that students who are in receipt of FSM do less well than their peers in external exams. The aim of this money is to try to close that attainment gap. All schools are required to publish, on their websites, what funding they have received and how the money is being spent. Please refer below for details of how we spend the Pupil Premium at Lydlynch Infant School.
Eligibility for Pupil Premium, and Impact of Funding Click on the links at the bottom of this page:
- A parent friendly introduction to Pupil Premium and Service Premium, including details of how to apply; Pupil Premium Grants Parent information pack
- An explanation of the purpose behind Pupil Premium funding, and information on how schools are funded. Government Pupil Premium Information
How much Pupil Premium funding do we receive?
2022-2023 £54,320
| 2021-2022 £57,835 |
2020-2021 £52,460 |
2019-2020 £48,840 |
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Use of Pupil Premium Funding
Pupil Premium funding comes directly into school. It is based on the number of children registered as eligible for Free School Meals (FSM) at the moment and in the past six years, together with the number of pupils who are either currently ‘looked after’ or formerly ‘looked after’ and now adopted. It is not in any way assumed that all children eligible for the Pupil Premium are low-attaining or making poor progress. We consider how best to support the learning and access to all aspects of education for all categories of children, including those that are higher attaining in addition to those who have barriers to learning.
Potential barriers faced by eligible children
Eligible pupils may face some of the following challenges:
- Barriers to learning in one or more curriculum area which may or may not result from a Special Educational Need
- Lack of self-confidence or self-esteem in learning
- Difficulties with making friends and establishing secure relationships with adults
- A lack of resources to engage fully with the wider life of the school, including extra-curricular clubs, educational visits, instrumental tuition etc.
- Families may need support for a number of different reasons some of which may affect their capacity to support children’s learning at home
How We Measure Impact
- We assess the impact of our interventions in the following ways:
- Progress in learning measured against EYFS or National Curriculum developmental or age-related milestones;
- Progress in specifically targeted areas such as reading, spelling and numeracy using standardised assessments;
- Progress in phonics and spelling against age related expectations in terms of numbers of sounds and words encoded and decoded accurately;
- Progress with emotional literacy interventions is measured in terms of readiness to access the full curriculum. For children who require a more intensive nurture-based approach, specific profiling tools are used and these measure progress over time.
How Do Pupils at Lydlynch Infant School in Receipt of Pupil Premium Funding Achieve?
The information below shows the % of pupils in Y2 at or above national expectations. These are teacher assessment figures showing the % of pupils achieving the nationally expected standard in all of reading, writing and mathematics.
| Whole School | Pupil Premium Eligible |
2016-17 | Reading 71.7%, Writing 61.7%, Maths 70% | Reading 55.6%, Writing 33.3%, Maths 44.4% ( 9 children ) |
2017-18 | Reading72.4%, Writing 62.1%, Maths 72.4% | Reading50%, Writing 30%, Maths 50% ( 10 children ) |
2018-19 | Reading 75%, Writing 61.7%, Maths 75% | Reading57.1%, Writing 42.9%, Maths 57.1% (7 children) |
| 2021-22 | Reading 42%, Writing 15%, Maths 53% | Reading 0%, Writing 0%, Maths 44% (9 children) |
Review of Pupil Premium Spending in 2020-21
An analysis of last year’s spending can be found below in the 2019-20 action plan.
Proposed Pupil Premium Spending (Sept 2021 – July 2022)
Lydlynch Infant School spends its Pupil Premium in ways which are designed to have maximum impact in reducing barriers faced by eligible children.( a copy of the strategy can be found below)
In 2020-2021:
Total number of pupils on roll (October 2020): Number of pupils eligible for full Pupil Premium: 46 Number of pupils eligible for Armed Services PP: 3
Total Pupil Premium funding for 2020-21: £57,835 |
Pupil Premium Strategy Review
This strategy will be reviewed in July 2022 in readiness for the new School Development Planning cycle which takes effect from 1st September 2022