Information regarding the allocation of Pupil Premium and the progress of tracked pupils

What is Pupil Premium?

The Pupil Premium is an allocation of additional funding provided to schools to support specific groups of children who are vulnerable to possible underachievement. Children who are entitled to this pupil premium grant are those who have free school meals, children in care and children of parents in the armed forces. In addition, children who have received free school meals any time in the last six years will also gain funding as will children whose parents have been in the armed forces within the last three years.

Therefore, all schools have to provide a Pupil Premium plan each year, explaining how they are using the recovery funding, and upload to this website. At St Lawrence, this plan is bespoke to our pupils, to our context and to the strength we have as a team so that our children flourish. 

It is also recognised that not all pupils who are socially disadvantaged are registered to qualify for a Pupil Premium grant. The Head Teacher and governors reserve the right to allocate the pupil premium to support other pupils the school has legitimately recognised as being socially disadvantaged. 

“It is for schools to decide how the Pupil Premium allocated to schools per Free School Meal 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.

Pupil Premium at St Lawrence CE Primary School

At St Lawrence CE Primary School, we have a philosophy of ‘Whatever it takes!’ and have always strived to ensure that all children make good progress and achieve to a high standard. Our pastoral care, in addition to rigorous monitoring and tracking of all pupils, helps us to identify any pupils who are at risk of not making sufficient progress. This information helps us to plan and implement a range of intervention strategies. We track the progress of our children as part of our Pupil Progress meetings.  We hold termly meetings with teachers to discuss the progress of each child in reading, writing and mathematics and then plan to ensure all children are making at least good progress and/or achieving age related expectations at the end of the year. We also report this data to Governors.

Pupil Premium Champion: Mrs Abigail Norgate (SENDCO)

Nominated Governor: Mr Paul Whitty