The pupil premium is additional funding for publicly funded schools in England to raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils of all abilities and to close the gaps between them and their peers.
The Pupil Premium was introduced in April 2011 and is allocated to schools to work with pupils who have been registered for free school meals at any point in the last six years (known as ‘Ever 6 FSM’).
Schools also receive funding for children who have been looked after continuously for more than six months, and children of service personnel.
There are guidelines for how to allocate the Pupil Premium funding issued by the Department for Education which can be accessed here.
The DfE guidance ‘Using pupil premium: guidance for school leaders’ and the EEF’s recent Guide to the Pupil Premium have been used to support our critical engagement with the evidence as we develop our strategy for the 2024-25 academic year and beyond.
The document opposite provides details of how the Pupil Premium funding for The John Fisher School is being spent.