The government provides publicly-funded secondary schools with ring-fenced funding to spend on their disadvantaged pupils (statistically likely to under-achieve through no fault of their own). As such, schools are obliged to report how they spent these funds in the previous academic year and the impact made. 

 

Pupil Premium:

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Evidence shows that children from disadvantaged backgrounds:

 

• Generally face extra challenges in reaching their potential at school

• Often do not perform as well as their peers

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The pupil premium grant is designed to allow schools to help disadvantaged pupils by improving their progress and the exam results they achieve. The current level of pupil premium funding is £955 per pupil for secondary pupils. 

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PE and Sport Premium:

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All young people should have the opportunity to live healthy and active lives. A positive experience of sport and physical activity at a young age can build a lifetime habit of participation and is central to meeting the government’s ambitions for a world-class education system. Physical activity has numerous benefits for children and young people’s physical health, as well as their mental wellbeing (increasing self-esteem and emotional wellbeing and lowering anxiety and depression), and children who are physically active are happier, more resilient and more trusting of their peers. Ensuring that pupils have access to sufficient daily activity can also have wider benefits for pupils and schools, improving behaviour as well as enhancing academic achievement.

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