Pupil Premium

What is the Pupil Premium?

The Pupil Premium Grant is allocated to children from low-income families who are, or have been, eligible for free school meals (FSM), within the last six years. The grant is also made available to support children of service personnel and those who are looked after by the local authority (LAC).

What are our aims for the Pupil Premium Grant?

The aim of the Pupil Premium is to identify and implement strategies that help to increase social mobility and reduce the attainment gap between the most and least disadvantaged pupils nationally. East Lane Primary School and the WMAT has a track record of ensuring this funding is used effectively to ensure our pupils make exceptional progress and that we maximise our impact.

What barriers do pupils eligible for the Pupil Premium Grant face?

The barriers and challenges disadvantaged pupils face are complex and varied. We know from our experience that there is no ‘one size fits all’ solution to this and we treat each pupil individually. We have identified several barriers that most disadvantaged pupils face our context. These are:

Lower levels of prior attainment.
Lower levels of attainment in literacy and numeracy.
Lower levels of attendance and punctuality.
Greater need for emotional and well-being support.
Lower levels of oral language skills with a higher proportion of vocabulary gaps.
Fewer enriching experiences outside our local community.

How do we decide how to spend the Pupil Premium Grant?

In deciding how to use our Pupil Premium Grant, we draw upon the following sources:

Sutton Trust report: “School Funding and Pupil Premium 2024″ available here.
Education Endowment Foundation Teaching and Learning Toolkit, available here.
Our combined professional experience of what works best.

PE and Sport Premium

The PE and Sport Premium is funding that must be used to fund additional and sustainable improvements to the provision of PE and sport, for the benefit of primary-aged pupils to encourage the development of healthy, active lifestyles. Allocations for the academic year 2021 to 2022 have been calculated using the number of pupils in Years 1 to 6, as recorded in the January 2021 census.