Pupil Premium provides additional funding to support the educational achievement of a number of groups of children. These groups include:

• Children from families in receipt of free school meals (FSM), or those who have been eligible for FSM in the previous 6 years (Ever 6).
• Looked After Children (LAC) defined in the Children Act 1989 as a child ‘who is in the care of, or provided with accommodation’ by a local authority.
• Post Looked After Children (Post LAC) for children who were looked after immediately before being adopted, or were placed on a Special Guardianship or Residence Order.
• Children from Service Families and also from families whose parents have left the armed forces up to 6 years ago, (Ever 6 Service Children). Please inform the school if one or both parents are in the Services or have been in the past 6 years.

The school receives £1,320 for each FSM pupil and Ever 6 child, £1400 for each LAC, £1900 for a Post LAC child and £300 for a Service Family Child and Ever 6 Service Family Child.

The Pupil Premium is intended to address inequalities by ensuring that targeted support is provided for those children who need it most. Schools can decide how the pupil premium is allocated as they are seen as best placed to decide what additional support is necessary to meet the needs of individual pupils.

Service Family children

Our ELSA, runs a group for service family children. She meets regularly with them when family members are deployed and helps them to keep in touch, thus reducing the impact of this on their school life and learning.

Please see Miss. Clements for more information and please keep us up to date on any deployment details.

The Early Years Pupil Premium

All early years providers who deliver Government funded early education can claim the early years pupil premium for three and four year old children who attend nursery whose parents are in receipt of one or more of the following benefits:

• Income Support

• Income-based Jobseekers Allowance

• Universal Credit

• Income-related Employment and Support Allowance

• Support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999

• the guaranteed element of State Pension Credit

• Child Tax Credit (provided you’re not also entitled to Working Tax Credit and have an annual gross income of no more than £16,190)

• Working Tax Credit

Three and four year olds will also be eligible if:

• they are currently being looked after by a local-authority in England or Wales

• they have left care in England or Wales through an adoption

• they have left care in England or Wales through a special guardianship order or a child arrangement order aid f

4 weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax

Completing this form allows us to check whether your child is eligible for the EYPP which could provide up to an extra £300 for your child’s nursery to fund valuable support like extra training or, resources to help raise the quality of your child’s early education.

If you feel your child may be eligible please complete and return the form as soon as possible.

Children in receipt of EYPP will receive help towards the cost of any trips the Nursery go on.

If you have any questions, please contact the school office.