Pupil Premium Overview

Pupil Premium is additional to main school funding. The Government provides this specific funding to support specific groups of children who are vulnerable to underachievement. 

These include:

- Children entitled to Free School Meals (FSM)

- Ever 6 children (those who have been entitled to Free School Meals at some point in their primary schooling)

- 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 website)

Schools are receiving the following funding:

£1,320 per pupil of primary-school age, £935 per pupil of secondary-school age, £2,300 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).

Grundisburgh Primary School Pupil Premium Information

The amount of pupil premium allocation for the current financial (2018-19) year is - £30,360 (this is based on 23 Grundisburgh children eligible for funding). This is 13.5% of the school population.

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 Mr Lynch to discuss the impact of the Pupil Premium. Pupil Premium children’s progress is monitored at half termly Pupil Progress Meetings where attainment and progress is monitored. 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 2017-18 Attendance figures for Pupil Premium children ranged from 83.3% - 98.7% individually. Overall Pupil Premium attendance was 93.3% which shows an improvement on the academic year of 2016-17 where the average attendance of Pupil Premium children was 90.99%. 8 of our Pupil Premium children's attendance last year was above 93%. We are working with the EWO to address individuals who have a significant attendance issue.

Date of next Action Plan - September 2019

In 2017-18 our Pupil Premium Allocation was £38,280. 

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:-

• parental engagement and support
• attendance
• access to wider opportunities
• emotional issues