Pupil Premium

Pupil Premium

Introduced in 2011, the Pupil Premium Grant (PPG) is additional government money given to publicly funded schools in England to help disadvantaged young people do well at school and narrow the gap, both in school and nationally, between them and their peers.

Research shows that students who are entitled to Pupil Premium face challenges such as poor language and communication skills, less family support, lack of confidence, and issues with attendance and punctuality.

The funding is allocated to schools for students from Reception to Year 11 who have registered for free school meals in the last six years, and young people who are in care or have parents in the Armed Forces.

The funding rates for the academic year 2023-24 are £1455 per pupil who is eligible for free school meals, or have been eligible in the past 6 years. £2530 per pupil for Pupils previously looked after by a local authority or other state care, and £335 per pupil for any pupil who has parents serving in the armed forces.

Schools are free to choose how to spend their Pupil Premium grant. This may include funding extra classroom support, maths and literacy catch-up sessions, educational trips, music lessons or a breakfast club, speech and language or family therapy, or learning resources.

Culture and Climate

• Specialist visitors to lead, develop and promote Arts provision across the school.
• Forest School provision to ensure that there are many opportunities to work outside and understand about nature and ecology.
•  Instrumental music lessons to drive best practice across all schools and make performance level music available at reduced charge to some disadvantaged pupils.
• Sports Leaders to drive best practice and make performance sport a realistic option for disadvantaged pupils.
• An annual Sports Week, Arts as a Career Week and Science Week.

Leadership and Management

• Training for all Phase Leaders in the identification of underperformance in the pupil premium group of children, analysis of their individual progress and the design of focused plans strategies to raise their attainment.
• In depth support to year groups to make rapid improvements to their attainment of underperforming groups of pupils.
• The co-ordination, monitoring and analysis of of free-extra-curricular clubs and activities, the provision of which is a central precept of very child representing us during their school career.
• Training for new leaders in the identification of underperformance. Analysis of progress and the design of plans and strategies to improve attainment.
• Support to middle leaders, individually and in groups, in the identification of underperformance, analysis of progress and design of plans to improve attainment.
• Focused staff visits to exceptional settings to share and see good and successful practice.
• Expert support for teachers, individually and in groups, in the teaching of literacy including phonics and mathematics.
• Expert support to develop student leadership opportunities.

All members of staff and governors and  accept responsibility for ‘socially disadvantaged’ pupils and are committed to meeting their pastoral, social and academic needs within the school environment. Chingford CofE Primary School is committed to closing the achievement gap between vulnerable pupils and the pupil premium forms a vital part of that process. The governors reserve the right to allocate the pupil premium funding to support any pupils or groups of pupils the school has legitimately identified as being socially disadvantaged.

Provision will be made through:

• Facilitating pupils’ access to education
• Facilitating pupils’ access to the curriculum
• Alternative support and intervention within the school