Pupil Premium
PUPIL PREMIUM OVERVIEW
Purpose
Publicly-funded schools in England get extra funding from the government to help them improve the attainment of their disadvantaged pupils.
Evidence shows that children from disadvantaged backgrounds generally face extra challenges in reaching their potential at school and often do not perform as well as their peers
The pupil premium grant (PPG) is designed to allow schools to help disadvantaged pupils by improving their progress and the exam results they achieve.
Use of the pupil premium
It is up to school leaders to decide how to spend the pupil premium. This is because school leaders are best-placed to assess their pupils’ needs and use funding to improve attainment.
Tiered approach
Evidence suggests that pupil premium spending is most effective when schools use a tiered approach, targeting spending across the following 3 areas below but focusing on teaching quality - investing in learning and development for teachers. At Broadstone Hall, we have organised our PP Strategy Statement into these three areas in order to explain how the PP Grant has been allocated.
Teaching
Schools arrange training and professional development for all their staff to improve the impact of teaching and learning for pupils.
Academic support
Schools should decide on the main issues stopping their pupils from succeeding at school and use the pupil premium to buy extra help.
Wider approaches
This may include non-academic use of the pupil premium such as: school breakfast clubs, music lessons for disadvantaged pupils, help with the cost of educational trips or visits, speech and language therapy.