Pupil Premium
The Pupil Premium Grant was introduced by the government in April 2011 to provide additional funding to schools, helping to support pupils from low-income families who have been eligible for free school meals at any point in the past six years.
The primary aim of the Pupil Premium is to support pupils who may be vulnerable to underachievement, ensuring that schools can provide targeted interventions to help ‘close the gap’ between their attainment and that of their peers nationally. In recent years, this funding has been extended to include children who have previously been ‘looked after’ by the Local Authority, as well as children from service personnel families.
All schools are required to report on the amount of funding received, how it is being used, and the impact it is having on the children it is designed to support. With the ongoing cost of living crisis, we have seen a noticeable increase in the number of families eligible for free school meals, highlighting the continued importance of this funding in meeting the needs of our most vulnerable pupils. At St Giles our Pupil Premium Grant allocation for the past three years has been:
2024-25 Pupil Premium Allocation - £16,000
2023-24 Pupil Premium & Recovery Premium Allocation - £12,880
2022-23 Pupil Premium & Recovery Premium Allocation - £13,700
Pupil Premium funding is used in a wide range of ways including:
- individual and small group interventions for identified pupils inc. social and emotional support, reading, mathematics, speech and language, and play therapy;
- facilitating mentoring for pupils with social and/ or emotional difficulties recognised as a possible barrier to learning;
- targeted support to improve attendance and/ or parental engagement;
- supporting curriculum enrichment inc. residential trips and educational visits;
- enabling children to attend after school clubs and extra-curricular activities; and
- providing resources inc. online resources to ensure children have full access to the curriculum.
The impact of this spending is monitored and reviewed regularly. To find out more about the use and impact of our recent Pupil Premium funding at St Giles, please read the attached strategy statement.