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Pupil Premium

The government introduced the Pupil Premium Grant in April 2011. The Pupil Premium is allocated to schools and is clearly identifiable. This funding is additional to the main school budget and is seen by the government as the best way to address inequalities, for children eligible for free school meals (FSM) and for Service Children, by ensuring that funding is in place to support disadvantaged pupils. 
 
Schools decide how the Pupil Premium is spent, since they are best placed to assess what additional provision should be made for the individual pupils within their responsibility.
 
At St. John’s Church of England Academy we support all our pupils by providing high quality teaching, supplemented by interventions to support learners as and when required. The academy's leadership team and the governing body monitor the impact of spending of the Pupil Premium and interventions.
 

Pupil Premium is allocated to the school that the pupil is recorded as attending in the January School Census each year. 

Eligibility

There are four elements to Pupil Premium:

Pupil Premium Category£ per pupilFunding Criteria
1. Free School Meals (FSM) – Ever 6
Pupils aged 4 and over in NCY R to 6.		 £1,480
  • recorded as eligible for free school meals (FSM) or have been recorded as eligible in the past 6 years (FSM Ever 6)
2. Post Looked After Arrangements
(previously ‘Adopted from Care’)		 £2,570
  • previously looked-after children (PLAC): pupils who were looked after by a local authority or other state care immediately before being adopted, or who left local authority or other state care on a special guardianship order or child arrangements order (previously known as a residence order). This includes children adopted from state care or equivalent from outside England and Wales
3. Children in Care
in care for at least one day 		 £2,570
  • looked-after children (LAC) supported by the authority, including those who attend academies. LAC are defined in the Children Act 1989 as those who are in the care of, or provided with accommodation by, an English local authority. It is for the local authority to decide how much of this funding to pass on to the child’s academy
4. Service Children – Ever 6
Pupils aged 4 and over in year groups reception to year 11, or in receipt of a child pension from the Ministry of Defence		 £340
  • one of their parents is serving in the regular armed forces, including pupils with a parent who is on full commitment as part of the full-time reserve service – this includes pupils with a parent who is in the armed forces of another nation and is stationed in England
  • they have been registered as a ‘service child’ on any school census in the past 6 years
  • one of their parents died whilst serving in the armed forces and the pupil receives a pension under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme or the War Pensions Scheme
The Pupil Premium Plan is reviewed by the Pupil Premium Governor and by Governors through the Finance and Resources Committee and reported upon at the Local Governing Board.
St John's C of E Pupil Premium Statement December 2024 Final.pdf
St John's C of E Pupil Premium Statement December 2023 Final.pdf
Review of Pupil Premium Strategy Outcomes July 2022
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