Reporting to Parents and Carers
Pupil Premium grant fundng is designed to support children who may be vulnerable to underachievement, and to narrow the gap between pupil groups.
The grant funding allocation is dependent on the number of children attending our school who are eligible, and have claimed for free school means at any time in the last six years (this categorisation changed in 2012).
Children who may be eligible include curernt or post Looked After Children and children of parents currently serving in the UK’s armed forces.
All schools are required to report on the amount of funding and how it is being used. Pupil Premium is spent in the context of the overall funding agreement between the DfE and the Trust.
Follow this link to see if your child is eligible for Pupil Premium funding. Click to open link
Principles
At Windmill Primary School, we organise teaching and learning in order to meet the needs of all of our children to ensure maximum inclusion and impact.
We ensure appropriate provision for chilren who receive free school meals are socially disadvantaged children have their needs adequately assessed and met.
We recognise that not all children who receive free school meals are socially disadvantaged and we also recognise that not all children that are disadvantaged have free school meals.
We allocate Pupil Premium funding to support any child the school has identified as being socially disadvantaged and should be making accelerated progress.
Pupil premium funding will be allocated following a needs analysis which identifies priority classes, groups or individuals. Not all children receiving free school meals will be in receipt of pupil premium interventions at one time.
Objectives
Our objective in using the Pupil Premium grant is to narrow the gap between pupil groups.
As a school, we strive to ensure all pupils make good progress, whilst bridging the gap in the levels of attainment between free school meals and non free school meals pupils.
Our next Pupil Premium Strategy Review is scheduled for November 2025.
2024/2025
Total Grant: £94,019
Provision
Maths Support
- Monitoring of ‘in-class’ provision for all Pupil Premium children by class teachers and key stage leaders
- Same day 'misconception intervention' support, to ensure Pupil Premium pupils can 'keep up'
- Small group therapies, post assessment, to address identified gaps in learning
Reading and Writing Support
- Read, Write Inc. interventions to accelerate progress in English
- Monitoring of ‘in-class’ provision for all Pupil Premium children by class teachers and key stage leaders
- Intervention groups to support children with specific learning needs to support reading and writing
Pupil Wellbeing and Learning Support
- School based Learning Mentor and Family Support workers
- Support for extra-curricular activities such as before school clubs, residential trips and visits
- Use of external organisations for children to experience and access all aspects of the curriculum
- Programmes of child support from external agencies such as Play Therapy
- Providing support through ICT software and hardware
- Lunch time support from trained members of staff to provide nurture space to help children to regulate emotions
Pupil Premium Documents