The Pupil Premium Grant is additional funding given to schools to:

• raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils and close the gap between them and their peers.
• support children and young people with parents in the regular armed forces.

It was first introduced in April 2011.  Since then the amount schools receive has increased.  Schools will receive funding based on the number of pupils who have been eligible for free school meals at any point in the last 6 years and for children who are looked after or adopted (LAC). 

The aims of the funding are as follows:

• To reduce the attainment gap between the highest and lowest achieving pupils nationally
• To increase social mobility
• To enable more pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds to get to the top universities
• To provide additional resources to schools to do this
• To support looked after children and post - LAC

The grant is allocated to school by financial year (April to April).  The reports available via the links below give the  amount of the school's allocation from the Pupil Premium grant for the previous financial year and the current year.  They cover part of this academic year with details of how it is intended the allocation will be spent; details of how the previous academic year's allocation was spent, and the effect of this expenditure on the educational attainment of  pupils at school in respect of whom grant funding was allocated.