Pupil Premium
The Pupil Premium is additional funding given to schools to help provide additional support to some children who may need it. The support can vary from teaching help to supporting a school activity.
The Pupil Premium is allocated to schools based on the number of children who are known to be eligible for Free School Meals (FSM), or who have been eligible at any time in the last 6 years (Ever 6).
Pupil Premium is also allocated for children who have been looked after by the Local Authority (CLA) continuously for more than six months. In East Sussex Pupil Premium for CLA is managed by the Virtual School for Children in Care.
A premium is also paid for children whose parents are currently in the Armed Forces.
If you think a child in your care is eligible for Pupil Premium, please let the School Office know.
Our School
In our school the percentage of children eligible for Free School Meals at any time in the last six years is between 20% and 30%. For the period April 2018 to April 2019 we received £108,790. For the period April 2019 to April 2020 we received £122,080. For the current financial year we expect to receive £133,155.
This is spent in the following ways:
- one to one tuition reading and maths tuition for identified children
- Lexia support for identified children
- targeted support from our Inclusion Teaching Assistant
- speach and language support for identified children
- booster groups
- funds for parental engagement initiatives
- training for both teachers and teaching assistants, particularly lesson studies
- support for trips and visitors to school to lead activities
- funding for Family Key Workers and a School Counsellor
- funding for resources to support high quality teaching and learning
- specialist provision for art, music, drama and PE
For further details on how this money was spent together with the impact it made is outlined in our reports below. Our Pupil Premium Strategy is reviewed annually each September.
What Impact Has Pupil Premium Had?
Our children in receipt of Pupil Premium funding achieve particularly well. Previously, this success has been recognised nationally and we received a letter of congratulations from the Deputy Prime Minister, who stated we are "among the top performing schools in England for boosting the performance of disadvantaged pupils since the Pupil Premium was introduced".
In 2015 our success was recognised again. David Laws MP wrote that we "are highly effective in educating (our) disadvantaged pupils". He said that it was clear that we "provided disadvantaged pupils with a good start in life and prepared them well for secondary school".
Our Report for the year 2019-20 can be viewed here.
To view our Pupil Premium Strategy and Report for 2020-21, please click here.
For more information from the DfE click here.