Pupil Premium
Below, you will find information detailing what the pupil premium grant is, and how this funding is allocated at Meadow View Academy.
What is the pupil premium grant?
Introduced in 2011, the pupil premium is a sum of money given to schools each year by the Government to improve the attainment of disadvantaged children.
This is based on research showing that children from lower income families perform less well at school than their peers. The pupil premium is intended to directly benefit the children who are eligible, helping to narrow the gap between them and their classmates.
Main Barriers to Educational Achievement
At Meadow View Academy, we pride ourselves on recognising, and valuing that every child is unique; however, common barriers encountered by our pupil premium children include, but are not limited to:
- Knowledge retention across the curriculum
- Attendance and punctuality
- language development and oracy skills
- Access to wider curriculum enrichment opportunities
At Meadow View Academy, we aim to support our pupils in overcoming barriers to their learning by focusing resources, teaching, support and interventions to accelerate progress and to reduce the attainment gap between pupil premium and non-pupil premium children.
We provide all children, including our pupil premium children, with a high quality learning environment to complete learning and after school learning activities, through clubs and residential visits.
We use funding and resources to support our pupil premium in securing high levels of attendance and punctuality.
Where appropriate we will provide mentoring and counselling to tackle social and emotional barriers to learning.
We will raise long term aspirations of pupil premium children by funding curricular projects and out of school visits.
Is my child eligible?
Schools are given a pupil premium for:
- Children who have qualified for free school meals at any point in the past six years. The school receives £1,455 for each of these children.
- Children who are or have been looked after under local authority care for more than one day. These children are awarded a premium of £2,530.
- Children from service families who receive a child pension from the Ministry of Defence. They are awarded £335
If your child was previously entitled to free school meals but is no longer, they will still receive pupil premium based on the 'Ever 6' qualification (a pupil who has ever had free school meals in the past six years).
How is the Pupil Premium Grant Spent at Meadow View Academy?
Schools can choose how to spend their pupil premium money, as they are best placed to identify what would be of most benefit to the children who are eligible.
Please view the following documents below:
Pupil Premium Strategy Statement 2024-2025
Where can I find Further Information?
Further Information on Pupil Premium can be found via the Department for Education website below:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium
Review
The pupil premium strategy will be reviewed at the end of the academic year in July and the performance review data can be found within the Pupil Premium Strategy Statement; however the impact of each current strategy is under constant review and changes will be made as and when required to ensure that pupil premium children are able to achieve the highest possible levels of achievement.