Early Years Pupil Premium Strategy 2023-2024

Pupil Premium Funding is additional funding used for those children who are considered to be at a disadvantage. These children are pupils who either claim or have claimed free school meals at any point in the last six years and pupils in care or who left care through adoption or another formal route. National figures show that these groups of children do not achieve as well as their peers academically and the Pupil Premium Funding enables schools to put additional support in place in order to address any inequalities. All schools are tasked to diminish the difference between disadvantaged children and others in terms of attainment.
As soon as children turn 3, we check for eligibility of pupil premium which enables families to claim free school meals as well as having extra targeted intervention work for their child.

For the academic year 2023-2024 we have 45 PP children and will use a similar approach to using the Pupil Premium funding as last year because it aligns with our school ethos and pedagogy. This year pupil premium funding is allocated to £18,136.00 for the year.

Head Teacher Sally Appadu analyses the assessment data generated by Target Tracker on a regular basis and this informs us of any curriculum gaps in the prime or specific areas of learning that need addressing. This provision is in continuous review but is formally analysed on a termly basis.