Pupil Premium
Pupil Premium is funding provided to schools which is additional to main school funding.
It is allocated according to the number of pupils on-roll who are eligible for free school meals (FSM), a smaller amount allocated according to the number of children of service families, and an allocation for each pupil who has been ‘Looked After’ (in care) for 6 months or more. In 2012, funding was extended to include pupils who have been eligible for free school meals within the past 6 years.
It is for schools to decide how the Pupil Premium is spent, since they are best placed to assess what additional provision should be made for the individual pupils within their responsibility.
However, schools are to be held accountable for how they have used the additional funding to support pupils from low-income families. From September 2012, this information must be published on the school website.
Information regarding how the pupils premium was spent in the last financial year and the plans for future spending is available to download below.
The downloadable document uses the Adobe PDF format, you will need software such as Acrobat Reader on your computer to read it.
If you haven’t got any appropriate software on your computer you can download it for free here.
