Pupil Premium

The Pupil Premium is an allocation of additional funding provided to schools to support specific groups of children who are vulnerable to underachievement.

These include:

• Children entitled to Free School Meals (FSM)
• Ever 6 children (those who have been eligible for Free School Meals at some point during their six years at Primary school)
• Children "looked after" by the Local Authority
• The children of Armed Service Personnel

"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" (DfE website)

All schools are required to publish online the following information regarding their pupil premium strategy

• The amount of pupil premium allocation for the current financial year 
• The summary of the main barriers faced by eligible children and how allocation is to be spent to address those barriers
• How the impact will be measured

Pupil Premium is a key focus for school leaders (Senior Leadership Team and Governors) to ensure that children eligible achieve in line with their non-eligible peers both nationally and within the school setting.

The documents below details how Nacton spent our allocation last year, and how we plan to spend this year’s allocation.