Pupil Premium Information

What is the Pupil Premium?

The Pupil Premium is funding allocated to schools for the purpose of boosting the attainment of pupils from low income families. It is intended to enable schools to provide targeted support to help children reach their full potential. 

The Government has extended its reach to cover any child that has been registered for FSM or a Child Looked After (CLA) within the past six years.

According to the DfE, schools have the freedom to spend the funding as they see fit based upon their knowledge of pupil need; ‘It is for the schools to decide how the Pupil Premium, allocated to schools per FSM pupil, is spent, since they are best placed to assess what educational provision should be made for the individual pupils within their responsibility’ (DfE website).

Use of Pupil Premium Funding at Vauxhall Primary School

The Staff of Vauxhall Primary are committed to ensuring Pupil Premium provision secures teaching and learning opportunities that meet the needs of all pupils - so that they make maximum progress and reach their potential.

Our school welcomes and shares the government’s aim of tackling all forms of disadvantage and works tirelessly to ensure inclusion and equal access for all learners.

We recognise that the pupil premium funding is allocated to children in receipt of free school meals and is a means of addressing some of the issues associated with social disadvantage and in particular, in narrowing and hopefully eventually closing, any gap in attainment. In making appropriate provision for this we also acknowledge that not all pupils in receipt of free school meals are socially disadvantaged.

We also recognise that that not all pupils who are socially disadvantaged are registered or qualify for free school meals and so we reserve the right to allocate the Pupil Premium funding to support any pupil or groups of pupils the school has legitimately identified as needing additional support to achieve improved outcomes in learning and/or well-being.

The Pupil Premium funding for 2024-25 is £171,680 and the money will be used to maintain and develop pupil provision for vulnerable children in order to improve outcomes.

Pupil Premium Strategy 

The PDF document below explains how we used the Pupil Premium last year and our plans for this year.

pupil premium statement primary 2024 2025 docx.pdf