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Pupil Premium
The Pupil Premium is additional funding that the school receives to help close the attainment gap between children from low-income and other disadvantaged families and their peers.
The government require us to report on the school’s allocation from the Pupil Premium grant in respect of the current academic year; details of how it is intended that the allocation will be spent; details of how the previous academic year’s allocation was spent, and the effect of this expenditure on the educational attainment of those pupils at the school in respect of whom grant funding was allocated.
The Pupil Premium is designed to ensure that funding to tackle disadvantage reaches the pupils who need it most. The funding is allocated to Local Authorities and schools with pupils from Reception to Y11 who are eligible for free school meals (FSM), are looked after or have parents currently in the Armed Forces.
Premium Spending and Impact
Last year the premium helped to; fund new members of staff (both teaching and non-teaching), retain existing intervention staff, provide after-school clubs, lunchtime clubs and a breakfast club, enhance our outdoor classroom, subsidize trips and the year 6 residential, improve the premises and purchase new mobile technology for all classrooms. The funding has had important impact on the life experiences of our children as well as having a positive impact on the progress and attainment levels of all groups of children, including SEN children and Free School Meal children, many of whom started from low starting points.
Data for the children in receipt of Pupil Premium (PP), is always compared with National data. This data is included in the spending and impact document and shows that when compared with the National figures, the school's PP children achieve in line with, or better than, PP children nationally.
This funding is used for:
- Whole-school strategies that impact on all pupils
- Focussed support to target under-performing pupils
- Specific support targeting pupil premium pupils
An action plan for 2025/2026, and a review of spending for 2025/2026 is included in the following document:
Pupil Premium Strategy Statement 2025/26
In terms of spending, Cleeve Primary School will receive £286,366 for the 2024/25 academic year.