Woodland View Primary School
Pupil Premium
What is Pupil Premium?
The Pupil Premium is an allocation of additional funding provided to schools to support specific groups of children who are at risk of underachieving at school. The Government have used pupils entitled to Free School meals as an indicator for deprivation, and have deployed a fixed amount of money to schools per pupil, based on the number of pupils registered for Free School meals. At school we will use the indicator of those eligible for Free School meals as an element of our identification of target children to ‘narrow the gap’ regarding attainment.
The Government are not dictating how schools should spend this money, but are clear that schools will need to employ the strategies that they know will support their pupils to increase their attainment, and ‘narrow the gap’. Schools will be accountable for narrowing the gap, and there is a planned reform to the school performance tables to include new measures that show the attainment to pupils who receive the pupil premium compare with their peers.