Pupil Premium

The Government introduced the Pupil Premium Grant in April 2011. This grant, which is additional to main school funding, is seen by the government as the best way to address the current underlying inequalities between students eligible for free school meals (including looked-after children and those of armed forces personnel) and other students, by ensuring that funding to tackle disadvantage reaches the students who need it most. The Pupil Premium is allocated to schools and is clearly identifiable. Schools can decide how the Pupil Premium is spent, since they are best placed to assess what additional provision should be made for the individual students within their responsibility. Schools are accountable for how they have used the additional funding to support pupils and have to report on the impact of the spending.

At Pensford Primary, we have a good track record of attainment for disadvantaged pupils, which has mostly been at least as good as for other pupils in recent years.  Key Stage 2 progress, for example, was higher for disadvantaged pupils than for non-disadvantaged pupils in 2022.  We have also achieved positive attainment gaps for disadvantaged children by the time they leave the school across our 3-year strategy 2021-24.

Click on the link to download the document detailing Year 1 of our 3-year Pupil Premium Strategy 2024-27.

You can find the equivalent document for 2023-24 here.

Please note that there was no carry forward of Catch-up grant funding from 2023-24 into 2024-25.