Pupil Premium and Recovery Premium

Pupil Premium

Pupil Premium is additional funding given to schools to address the current underlying inequalities between children eligible for free school meals (FSM) and their peers by ensuring that funding to tackle disadvantage reaches the pupils who need it most. The pupil premium was introduced in April 2011 and is allocated to schools to work with pupils who have been registered for free school meals at any point in the last six years (known as ‘Ever 6 FSM’). 

The Department for Education has clear expectations how the Pupil Premium Grant may be spent;

• for the purposes of the school ie; for the educational benefit of pupils registered at that school

• for the benefit of pupils registered at other maintained schools or academies

• on community facilities eg; services whose provision furthers any charitable purpose for the benefit of pupils at the school or their families, or people who live or work in the locality in which the school is situated

Schools also receive funding for children who have been looked after continuously for more than six months, and children of service personnel.  The Government believes that it is for schools to decide how the Pupil Premium Grant (PPG), allocated per eligible pupil, is spent, since they are best placed to assess what additional provision should be made for the individual pupils within their responsibility. 

Schools are required to publish online information about how they have used the Premium. This is to ensure that parents and others are made fully aware of the attainment of pupils covered by the Premium

FUNDING ALLOCATION FOR 2021-2022

• £1,385 for each eligible primary aged pupil

• £2,410 for each Looked After Child

FUNDING ALLOCATION FOR 2022-2023

• £1,385 for each eligible primary aged pupil

• £2,410 for each Looked After Child

FUNDING ALLOCATION FOR 2023-2024

• £1,455 for each eligible primary aged pupil

• £2,530 for each Looked After Child