Pupil Premium

The pupil premium is additional funding for publicly funded schools in England to raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils of all abilities and to close the gaps between them and their peers.

Funding for 2024 to 2025

In the 2024 to 2025 financial year, schools will receive the following funding for each child registered as eligible for free school meals at any point in the last 6 years:

£1,480 for pupils in reception year to year 6

Schools will also receive £2570 for each pupil identified in the spring school census as having left authority care because of one of the following:

• adoption
• a special guardianship order
• a child arrangements order
• a residence order

(Taken from the DfE website)

Headteachers and school leaders can decide how to spend the funding.

COST OF LIVING SUPPORT AT ELWORTH HALL

Did you know?

Did you know that your child might be eligible to receive Pupil Premium funding? The Pupil Premium is a government initiative that gives additional funding to schools for students from families who would benefit most from the support. At the moment the value of this funding is £1480 per child.

What can it be used for?

Your child’s Pupil Premium funding can be used to pay for school meals, trips, music lessons, after school clubs, uniform or anything school related that will benefit your child. This year we have families who have accessed £200 towards music lessons, £300 to pay for school residentials and £100 towards uniform amongst other things.

How do I apply?

Applying is a straight forward process just head over to:

https://www.cheshireeast.gov.uk/schools/school-meals/free_school_meals.aspx

Create an online account and begin the process there. The whole thing should take no more than 20 minutes.

You can claim free school meals for each child who attends school in Cheshire East if you receive one of these benefits:

• Universal Credit with no earned income or with net monthly earnings less than £616.67
• Income Support
• Income based Jobseeker's Allowance
• Income related Employment Support Allowance
• Support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
• The guaranteed element of State Pension Credit
• Child Tax Credit  - as long as you have a yearly household income of less than £16,190 (as assessed by HM Revenue and Customs) and do not get Working Tax Credit
• Working Tax Credit run-on (paid for 4 weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit)

Even if your child is currently receiving free school meals, we strongly encourage all our families who feel they may be eligible to apply for this additional funding. Pupil Premium support will not only benefit your own child but the whole school community too. The whole process is completely confidential and there will be no way for non-school staff to identify who is receiving the grant.

Pupil Premium at Elworth Hall Primary School

As a school we are committed to raising the achievement for pupils who are eligible for Pupil Premium and understand that many of these pupils must make accelerated progress compared to non-eligible pupils to achieve this. We, as a school, are able to determine how best to use the Pupil Premium grant to support pupils and raise education attainment; we create an overall package of support aimed to tackle a range of barriers as specified in the PP spending plan attached. 

Monitoring Pupil Progress and Attainment

The school rigorously monitors and evaluates the impact of Pupil Premium funding. Tracking of progress over time is essential so that we can quickly identify need and develop strategies and interventions to accelerate progress.  The data we collect is consistently used during pupil progress meetings which take place half termly.

The Three Year Pupil Premium Statement 2024-2027 is currently being reviewed and updated and will be published by 31st December. 

This includes the following information:

• the school’s pupil premium grant allocation;
• a summary of the main barriers to educational achievement faced by eligible pupils at the school;
• how we will spend the pupil premium to overcome these barriers and reasons for the approach;
• how we will measure the effect of the pupil premium
• date of the next review of the school’s pupil premium strategy - October October 2024

In order to plan how we spend the Pupil Premium Grant, we have analysed the impact of Pupil Premium funding last year to identify strengths and areas for development for each year group based on end of year outcomes and have drawn on research evidence (such as the EEF and Sutton Trust toolkit) and evidence from experience, to allocate the funding to activities that are most likely to have an impact on improving achievement.