At Hayeswood First School, we are committed to ensuring that all pupils achieve their full potential, regardless of their background. The pupil premium grant is paid to enable schools to support both disadvantaged children and young people, including those with special educational needs, and to improve educational outcomes. Our Pupil Premium funding is used strategically to close attainment gaps and provide targeted support.

What is Pupil Premium Funding?

The Pupil Premium is an allocation of additional funding provided to schools to support specific groups of children who are vulnerable to possible underachievement. These include pupils who are entitled to free school meals, those looked after by the local authority and those now adopted but formerly looked after. Since 2012, funding has been extended to include pupils who have been eligible for free school meals at any time within the last 6 years.

Nationally, statistics have shown that students who are in receipt of FSM do less well than their peers in external exams. The aim of this money is to try to close that attainment gap. All schools are required to publish, on their websites, what funding they have received and how the money is being spent. Please refer below for details of how we spend the Pupil Premium at Hayeswood First School.

All schools are required to publish, on their websites, what the funding they have received and how the money is being spent. Please refer below for details of how we spend the Pupil Premium at Hayeswood First School.

Hayeswood First School Pupil Premium Strategy Statement

For details of our Pupil Premium Strategy, including the barriers to learning faced by eligible children, the amount of funding we receive, how we spend the funding, and the impact of the funding on outcomes, please click on the link below to our Pupil Premium Strategy Statement.

Click below to access an explanation of the purpose behind Pupil Premium funding, and information on how schools are funded.

Government Pupil Premium Information

‘It is for schools to decide how the Pupil Premium, allocated to schools per FSM pupil, is spent, since they are best placed to assess what additional provision should be made for the individual pupils within their responsibility.’ DfE site