Pupil Premium Strategy
What is the Pupil Premium?
The Pupil Premium is additional funding that is provided by the government to schools to help improve educational outcomes for students from lower income families and care-experienced children. This is because these pupils generally face extra challenges in reaching their potential at school and often do not perform as well as their peers.
In addition, the service pupil premium (SPP) provides support for children and young people of service families. It is combined into pupil premium payments to make it easier for schools to manage their spending. Pupils that the SPP intends to support are not necessarily from low income backgrounds.
Pupil premium is not a personal budget for individual students (other than children who are currently Looked After), and schools do not have to spend pupil premium so that it solely benefits students who meet the funding criteria. It can be used:
- to support other students with identified needs, such as those who have or have had a social worker, or who act as a carer
- for whole class interventions which will also benefit other students
- To ensure that pupil premium is focused on effective approaches to raising the educational attainment of priority students, schools must spend their pupil premium grant on evidence-informed activities designed to:
- develop high-quality teaching, for example through professional development and recruitment and retention
- provide targeted academic support, such as one-to-one or small group tuition
- tackle non-academic barriers to academic success, such as improving attendance, behaviour and social and emotional wellbeing
(Adapted from; Gov | Pupil Premium).
Alderman White Pupil Premium Strategy
The intention of our Pupil Premium strategy is to enable students who are eligible for Pupil Premium support to:
- Attend school as well as other students
- Engage in the life of the school, model our school values of engagement, responsibility, nurture and integrity in line with other students
- Achieve success both in terms of academic qualifications and wider personal goals in line with other students.
We aim to do this by:
- Enabling students and families to feel that they belong to and are valued as part of the school community
- Developing systems, processes and oversight to enable students who face additional barriers to attendance, engagement and success to flourish
- Engaging with research and best practice, monitoring and evaluating our actions using “plan – do – review” cycles
- Ensuring that all students benefit from our Pupil Premium Strategy – our school community benefits from those who need the greatest support experiencing success
- Developing a whole school culture of inclusion and support for all students
High-quality teaching is at the heart of our approach. This is proven to have the greatest impact in accelerating the progress of all students including those who meet the Pupil Premium criteria.