Pupil Premium
What is Pupil Premium Funding?
- The pupil premium is funding additional to main school funding to address the current underlying inequalities between vulnerable groups of children and their peers by ensuring that funding to tackle disadvantage reaches the pupils who need it most.
- The Pupil Premium is allocated to schools and it is for schools to decide how the funding will be spent, since they are best placed to assess what additional provision should be made for the individual pupils within their responsibility.
- Children who are eligible include:
- Pupils who have been registered for Free School Meals (FSM) at any point in the last six years
- Children who have been looked after continuously for more than six months and Children who have been Adopted from Care
- Children of armed services personnel.
Principles
- Schools are free to spend the Pupil Premium as they see fit. However they will be held accountable for how they have used the additional funding to support pupils.
- New measures will be included in the performance tables that will capture the achievement of those vulnerable groups of pupils covered by the Pupil Premium.
- Since September 2012, schools have been required to publish online information about how they have used the Premium. This ensures that parents and others are made fully aware of the attainment of pupils covered by the Premium.
- To close the achievement gap by ensuring that any pupil at risk of underachieving are identified early and support and intervention is provided for those pupils.
- In 2014 the Pupil Premium was extended to include children who have been Adopted from Care.
Pupil Premium at Knaresborough St John's
- We have high aspirations for all of our children and are determined that all children are given the chance to realise their full potential here at St. John's.
- The following links identify how the Pupil Premium Funding is being spent at St. John's. Decisions about spending are made by Governors based on research including that of the Education Endowment Funds' Sutton Trust research. Click here for more details.
- The following information identifies St. John's Strategy for 2024 - 2025's Pupil Premium Funding as well as reporting the impact the 2023 - 2024 funding had in our school. Please click here
