Pupil Premium

The Pupil Premium is funding that school's receive to spend on children from low income families, whose parents are in the services and Looked After Children. This is to try and ensure the children achieved as well as their peers. Looked after children and children from low incomes backgrounds are, statistically, less likely to achieve.  It is for the school to decide how to spend this money and we offer a number of initiatives to try and ensure that everyone who is eligible achieves well. 

 

Some of the additional benefits include:

• Targeted teaching and pupil centred planning
• One to one tuition
• Half price trips
• Free School Meal
• Daily milk at snack times
• External provider clubs for a £1
• Uniform grant £17.50 per year
• Dependent on need a variety of targeted interventions

 

For more information about our Pupil Premium offer please refer to our Pupil premium leaflet which has been created in conjunction with Upton Junior School

 

 

To be eligible for Pupil Premium you must either:-

 

have a parent serving in the Armed Forces

   or

be a Looked After Child (SGO, PRO, post adoption)

   or

be in receipt of one of the following qualifying benefits:

 

• Income Support (IS) or
• Child Tax Credit, provided they are not entitled to Working Tax Credit and have an annual taxable income (as assessed by The Inland Revenue) which from 6 April 2011 does not exceed £16,190
• Income-Based Job Seekers' Allowance (IB JSA) or
• Employment Support Allowance (Income Related) (ASA(IRA)) or
• Guaranteed Element of State Pension Credit
• Support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
• From 1 May 2009 where a parent is entitled to Working Tax Credit during the four-week period immediately after their employment ceases, or after they start to work less than 16 hours per week, their children are entitled to free school lunches.

 

Therefore, if you think you might be eligible, please let Mrs Earl or Mrs Steele in the office know and they will be able to provide further information.  Alternatively if you think you should be entitled to Free School Meals then ring Dorset Direct on 01305 221000 (you will need to have your national insurance number ready).

Please read the information above which gives details of our Pupil Premium Grant, how we allocate the funding and how well our pupils in receipt of the funding achieve compared to their peers.  If you have any questions or queries regarding the use of Pupil Premium Funding please contact our headteacher Mr Churchill.