Pupil Premium
Pupil Premium is additional funding for publicly funded schools in England to raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils and to diminish the differences between them and their peers.
Evidence shows that children from disadvantaged backgrounds:
• generally face extra challenges in
reaching their potential at school
• often do not perform as well as their peers
The pupil premium grant is designed to allow schools to help disadvantaged pupils by improving their progress and the exam results they achieve.
“It is for schools to decide how the Pupil Premium, allocated to schools per FSM pupil, is spent, since they are best placed to assess what additional provision should be made for the individual pupils within their responsibility.” Source – DfE website
At Elmlea, we have high aspirations and ambitions for all our children, and we believe
that every child should have equal access to all opportunities. We believe strongly that every pupil, given
the right support and expectations, can be motivated to have a passion and thirst for knowledge, and with
dedication and commitment to learning can be successful.
We are determined to ensure that our children
are given every chance to realise their full potential. Pupil premium funding, along with allocations made
from the schools’ own budgets will help ensure this money is spent to maximum effect.
Pupil Premium Spending
Details of Elmlea Schools Pupil Premium Strategy Statements and
annual reports can be found below:
Our pupil premium money has been used to provide a range of additional support for our children and these interventions, along with quality first teaching, have started to have a positive impact on children’s attainment and self-belief. Through targeted interventions and support, we are working hard to eliminate barriers to learning and progress. The support offered will be tailored to the needs of the child. For some, it may be play therapy or mentoring to support a child’s emotional well-being, while for others it may be in the form of enrichment activities, or specific interventions in maths and English.
How does the Trust measure the Impact of Pupil Premium?
To monitor progress on
attainment, we use, where appropriate, performance tables that will capture the achievement of pupils
covered by the Pupil Premium. At Elmlea, our continuous termly cycle of data collection, monitoring and by
tracking of the cohort’s attainment, will be used to inform pupil progress and enable the early
identification of need, support and appropriate intervention. Pupil Progress Review meetings take place each
term and include the Executive Headteacher (Lorraine Wright), the Deputy Headteachers, the class teacher and
the Inclusion Lead/SENDCo.
At each Pupil Progress Review meeting, the school will review the impact of actions taken and will plan for how the funding will be specifically allocated over the next phase. When selecting pupils for Pupil Premium target groups, the schools will look at all pupils across the school. There are some pupils, who are not eligible for Pupil Premium, but who would benefit from involvement in these groups too.
Monitoring the impact of the school’s Pupil Premium strategy is a regular item at both the Trust Executive and School Leadership Team meetings as well as at the joint local governing body committee meetings.
Designated staff members:
Inka Kemppainen-Vann (Elmlea Infant School)
Lee Daubney (Elmlea Junior School)
Nominated governor for Pupil Premium: Gareth Beynon
Schools receive funding for each child who is registered as eligible for free school meals at any point in
the last 6 years.
Eligibility for Free School Meals
A parent may wish to check
their child’s eligibility for Pupil Premium or continued free school meals and Bristol City Council has an
online system for this.
You will need to enter your name, address, national insurance number or asylum
support service number. In addition, you will need to provide your child’s name, date of birth and identify
the school they are attending.
Pupil Premium is an important payment for schools and a really good
opportunity for eligible parents to get even more support for their children in schools.
If you think
your child may possibly be eligible for free school meals, even if you don’t want your child to eat school
meals, please do check the information provided:
Pupil Premium and Free
School Meals in Bristol.
Every child registered generates valuable income for the school. If
you have any questions, or would like to know more about Pupil Premium funding and how it is being used to
benefit your child at Elmlea Schools, please speak to the following members of the Senior Leadership Team:
Lorraine Wright, Inka Kemppainen-Vann, Lee Daubney or Lacey Flook.
