Pupil Premium
The pupil premium funding is intended to raise the educational attainment of disadvantaged pupils of all abilities to help them reach their potential
Pupil Premium Nationally
The pupil premium funding for publicly funded schools in England is intended to raise the educational attainment of disadvantaged pupils of all abilities to help them reach their potential
Pupil premium funding is available to:
- local authority maintained schools, including special schools and pupil referral units
- voluntary-sector alternative provision with local authority agreement
- special schools not maintained by the local authority (NMSS)
- academies and free schools, including special and AP academies
In the 2024 to 2025 financial year, schools will receive the following funding for each child recorded as eligible for free school meals (FSM) or who have been recorded as eligible in the past 6 years (FSM Ever 6) or previously looked-after children (PLAC):
- £1,480 for pupils in reception year to year 6
- £1,050 for pupils in year 7 to year 11
Schools will also receive £2,570 for each pupil who has left local-authority care because of 1 of the following:
- adoption
- a special guardianship order
- a child arrangements order
- a residence order
If a pupil has been registered as eligible for free school meals and has also left local-authority care for any of the reasons above, they will attract the £2,570 rate.
Looked After Children - Children in Our Care
For LAC, it is the responsibility of the BwD Virtual School in consultation with the child’s school, to ensure that PP grant is used on evidence-informed interventions to support the child’s educational needs. These are evidence in each LAC individual Personal Education Plan - PEP and funding for these is received by school from the LA.
In the 2024 to 2025 financial year, the Local Authority will receive the following funding for each Looked After Child
- £2,570 for each pupil
Pupil Premium at Newfield
Each financial year Newfield receives Pupil Premium to help to raise the educational attainment of disadvantaged pupils of all abilities to help them reach their potential. The amount of this grant will vary from year to year and it is heavily subsidised from the total school funds available in order to ensure our children receive consistent staffing expertise.
Pupil premium is not a personal budget for individual pupils, and schools do not have to spend pupil premium so that it solely benefits pupils who meet the funding criteria. It can be used:
- to support other pupils with identified needs
- for whole class interventions which will also benefit non-disadvantaged pupils
At Newfield School all our children are vulnerable and we have identified that no particular group of children do less well than any other group. Newfield has developed a Pupil Premium position statement and provision criteria to support understanding of how we use the funding to provide interventions.
Academic year September 2024 – March 2025
We received an amount of £55,860. There will be a further allocation, yet to be determined, in the new financial year, after April 2025, with indicative funding over the whole academic year tbc.
Information about how the pupil premium funding for the academic year 2024-25 will be spent is detailed in our Pupil Premium Strategy Statement 2024-2025
Pupil assessment is completed termly with analysis of summative and formative results for individuals and groups of pupils to ensure that targeted resources secure equal outcomes for all children (see Equality Policy.)
Academic year 2023 – 2024
Information about how the pupil premium funding for the academic year 2023-24 was spent is detailed in the impact statement.
In the academic year 2023/2024 we received a pupil premium amount of £94,868.
Pupil Premium Impact Statement 2023-24
Academic year 2022 – 2023
Information about how the pupil premium funding for the academic year 2022-23 was spent is detailed in the impact statement.
In the academic year 2022/2023 we received a pupil premium amount of £88, 645.