Pupil Premium Overview

Pupil Premium is additional to main school funding. The Government provides this funding to support specific groups of children. We receive Pupil Premium funding for different reasons.

These include:

- Children entitled to Free School Meals (FSM)

- Children ''Looked After'' by the Local Authority

- The children of Armed Service Personnel

"It is for schools to decide how the Pupil Premium, allocated to schools per FSM pupil, is spent, since they are best placed to assess what additional provision should be made for the individual pupils within their responsibility" (DfE)

Schools receive the following funding:

£1,345 per pupil of primary-school age, £955 per pupil of secondary-school age, £2,345 per pupil for looked-after children (defined in the Children Act 1989 as one who is in the care of, or provided with accommodation by, an English Local Authority) and £310 per pupil who is has a parent who is serving in HM forces or has retired on a pension from the Ministry of Defence.

Grundisburgh Primary School Pupil Premium Information

For 2020-21 our projected Pupil Premium allocation is £40,085 (this is based on eligibility for funding from the January 2020 census). Currently we have 15% of our school population who are Pupil Premium.

We monitor closely the performance of all children in the school and in particular the performance of those that the pupil premium sets out to support. Teachers regularly meet with Mrs Marks to discuss the impact of the Pupil Premium. Pupil Premium children’s progress is monitored at termly Pupil Progress Meetings where attainment and progress is scrutinised. This is measured against the national picture for disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged children. We also compare the Pupil Premium group with those that are not eligible to help identify any further trends or barriers. We also measure impact in a variety of other ways; through attendance, the uptake of extra-curricular activities, the low incidence of behavioural issues and by the outcomes of formal tests such as SATs. We measure impact regularly throughout the year but formally on a yearly basis to look at actions needed for the next academic year. 

The 2019-20 Attendance figures (pre Covid-19) for Pupil Premium children were 94.79%. There has been an improvement year on year since the academic year 2016-17 where the average Pupil Premium children's attendance was 90.99%. 

Date of next Action Plan - September 2021

Pupil Premium projected allocation for 2020 - 21 is £40,085

In 2019-20 our Pupil Premium Allocation was £31,680.

Pupil Premium Barriers

The first and most important measure for maximising pupil achievement is high quality teaching. We support our teachers in many ways, for example with additional non-contact time, and challenge them to be ambitious for children’s learning, e.g. through Performance Management Objectives.

Many of our families deal with challenging circumstances with resilience and positivity. Where problems are encountered however, the main barriers to achievement usually relate to one or more of the following:-

• Some children have more than one barrier to their learning but these are the main barriers to learning which exist and we are working on overcoming.