Pupil Premium, RECOVERY PREMIUM & 'TUITION' FUNDING

Pupil Premium

What is the Pupil Premium?

The Pupil Premium is an allocation of additional funding provided to schools to support specific groups of children. These include pupils who are entitled to free school meals and those looked after by the local authority.

What is the Recovery Premium

Recovery premium is part of the government’s package of funding to support pupils whose education has been impacted by COVID-19. Annual grants were provided for 2021-22, 2022-23, and 2023-24. Building on pupil premium, this funding helps schools to deliver evidence-based approaches to supporting disadvantaged pupils.

What is the School-led Tutoring Grant

The School-led Tutoring Grant - a post-covid recovery programme - is designed to help close the education gap between disadvantaged and vulnerable pupils and their peers. Schools are expected to prioritise these pupils for the tutoring, however they have the flexibility to decide which pupils need the most support to help them catch-up on missed education. Tutoring funding was provided in 2021-22, 2022-23, and 2023-24; the programme will close at the end of the 2023-24 school year.

Our Aims in using our Pupil Premium, Recovery Premium and Tutoring Funding

To ensure that every child receives the support he/she needs:

to develop as a confident, independent learner
to develop academic and social skills,
so that talents can be unlocked & nurtured (academic, creative, sporting etc)
to access the curriculum fully
to make good academic progress
to achieve at least national expectations particularly in the Literacy and Numeracy.

Plans and Impact - Pupil Premium

Click below to see our annual Action Plans for Pupil Premium, in terms of use of the funding and the impact. We have placed 4 years of full reports below, and have records for previous years in school.

How we have used our Recovery Premium

DfE guidance indicates that schools should use their Recovery Premium funding in ways that raise the attainment of eligible pupils, and in line with the menu of approaches as set out for Pupil Premium. We have therefore focused our use of Recovery Premium on the following:

Recruitment of additional Teaching Assistant time in both Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 - across 2021-2024 (3 rounds of Recovery funding), we have targeted various priorities, including standards in years 5 & 6
Employing additional teacher time
Staff training, focused especially on Phonics and Reading strategies
Staff Training, focusing on aspects of Mathematics, Phonics and Writing.

In June 2022, we carried out an Evaluation of the impact of this funding - that document can be viewed here.

How we have used our School Led Tuition Grant

The School-led Tutoring Grant is similar to the National Tutoring Programme. It is a more localised approach which gives schools funding to source their own tutors - this will enable schools to use internal or external capacity to meet the needs of their pupils.

The grant is designed to help close the education gap between disadvantaged and vulnerable pupils and their peers. Schools are expected to prioritise these pupils for the tutoring, however they have the flexibility to decide which pupils need the most support to help them catch-up on missed education.

We have made full use of the Tutoring Grant during 2021-22, 2022-23 and 2023-24, providing additional support in maths and English to identified pupils, during the school day. This support has been provided by qualified teachers, working with pupils on a 1:1 and small group basis. The funding will not run beyond the school year 2023-24.