Purpose of the Pupil Premium Grant

The Pupil Premium Grant that is received by schools annually is used in a variety of ways in order to improve attainment and to help overcome any barriers to learning. It is for schools to decide how the Pupil Premium is spent since they are best placed to assess what additional provision should be made for learners. The Pupil Premium grant is allocated for learners who are entitled to Free School Meals (FSM);  'Children Looked After' or have parents in the Armed Services.

Pupil premium funding (2025/26) is allocated to eligible schools based on the number of:

• pupils who are recorded as eligible for free school meals, or have been recorded as eligible in the past 6 years (referred to as Ever 6 FSM).  The amount of funding schools receive for this is: £1,515 per learner.
• children previously looked after by a local authority or other state care, including children adopted from state care or equivalent from outside England and Wales - £2,630 per learner.

• Service pupil premium is additional funding for schools with children and young people of service families.

  Pupils in state-funded schools in England attract the service pupil premium grant, at the rate of: £350 per eligible learner.

Pupil premium is not a personal budget for individual pupils, and schools do not have to spend pupil premium so that it solely benefits pupils who meet the funding criteria. It can be used:

• to support other pupils with identified needs, such as those who have or have had a social worker, or who act as a carer
• for whole class interventions which will also benefit non-disadvantaged pupils

Pupil premium funding is allocated to local authorities based on the number of:

• looked-after children, supported by the local authority
• pupils who meet any of the eligibility criteria and who attend an independent setting, where the local authority pays full tuition fees

For pupils who are looked-after children, funding is managed by the local authority’s virtual school head (VSH)  in consultation with the child’s school.  Further details can be found here:  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium/pupil-premium

At Healey School, we use the Pupil Premium in different ways to support learners' individual needs and to help them to achieve their full potential. This could be additional support in English and Maths, support with gross or fine motor skills, support with speech and language, support with social development, access to a range of experiences, free (or subsidised) clubs (including breakfast club), support with attendance and punctuality or anything else that a child needs to enable them to thrive at  school.

The money that the school receives from the Government is spent in a range of different ways, as outlined in the 3 Tiers Approaches shown below, including:

• High quality teaching and continuous professional development, including training for curriculum subjects (e.g. Read Write Inc development days); mentoring and coaching for teachers; technology to support high quality teaching. 

• Targeted Academic Support e.g. one to one and small group interventions; teaching assistant deployment to support high quality provision in classrooms; targeted interventions.

• Wider Strategies e.g. to support attendance; social and emotional aspects of learning; extra-curricular activities.

We use the additional funding to meet the needs of learners in the most appropriate way and we make sure learners receive the support they individually need to make good progress. Using formative and summative assessments throughout the year, in line with whole school methods, the effect of the additional support is measured regularly and changes are made according to learners' needs.