Pupil Premium - What is it?
Disadvantaged and Looked After Pupils
Pupil Premium is funding allocated to schools by the government. It is for schools to decide how the Pupil Premium is spent, as they are best placed to assess what additional provision should be made for the individual pupils at their school.
An annual Pupil Premium grant (PPG) of £1,455 is awarded to pupils who have been eligible for Free School Meals (FSM) during the past six years and £2,410 for pupils in care who have been continuously looked after for six months (LAC).
At Le Cateau, 17% of our children are eligible for pupil premium.
Pupil premium funding is used to ensure all disadvantaged children thrive and are effectively supported to achieve academic success and be secondary ready. The school is successful in achieving this aim.
Accountability
The government believes that Headteachers and school leaders should decide how to use the Pupil Premium. They are held accountable for the decisions they make through:
-the performance tables which show the performance of disadvantaged pupils compared with their peers
-the Ofsted inspection toolkit, under which inspectors focus on the attainment of pupil groups, and in particular those who attract the pupil premium
-the reports for parents that schools have to publish online
The links provide:
- an evaluation demonstrating the impact of this funding during previous academic years
- a statement and strategy showing the way in which we will be using the funding during the 2017/18 academic year.
