Pupil Premium
Pupil Premium is additional funding to the main school budget and is to be used to support disadvantaged pupils to ensure the national achievement gap between them and their peers closes.
Pupil Premium is a funding stream allocated to schools based on the number of pupils currently on Free School Meals (FSM) or having been in receipt of FSM in the past 6 years.
It is for individual schools to decide how to best use the funding, since they are best placed to know what provision needs to be in place to support vulnerable pupils. It is not directly linked to a child who qualifies for it and is used in a variety of ways to support vulnerable children during the school day. Currently at Hall Green Junior School, the PP funding is used for in-school interventions, additional staffing ratios, school educational visits, smaller class sizes for reading and to supplement the cost for eligible pupils on the Year 6 residential visit.
However, schools are accountable for how they spend the money linked to the attainment and progress of Free School Meal children.
Amount of Funding:
2011 - 2012 £21,472
2012 - 2013 £53,455
2013 - 2014 £83,864
2014 - 2015 £114,400
2015 - 2016 £145,000
2016 - 2017 £161,480
2017 - 2018 £156,940
2018 - 2019 £138,520
2019 - 2020 £125,620
2020 - 2021 £127,775
2021 - 2022 £168,943
2022- 2023 £198,005
2023 - 2024 £206.610
2024 - 2025 £227,088
2025 - 2026 £261,644
Reading, SPaG and maths show this group performing much better than disadvantaged nationally, and the gap is almost closed with non disadvantaged nationally.