The pupil premium is additional funding for publicly funded schools in England to raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils of all abilities and to close the gaps between them and their peers.
The Pupil Premium was introduced in April 2011 and is allocated to schools to work with pupils who have been registered for free school meals at any point in the last six years (known as ‘Ever 6 FSM’).
Schools also receive funding for children who have been looked after continuously for more than six months, and children of service personnel.
There are guidelines for how to allocate the Pupil Premium funding issued by the Department for Education which can be accessed here.
Covid has potentially reversed a decade of progress in closing the attainment gap. The evidence is clear that vulnerable and disadvantaged students have fallen further behind during the pandemic. We know that these students will also face the biggest challenges in educational recovery. In this context, it is more important than ever to focus our efforts on what evidence tells us is most likely to be effective for pupils from lower socio-economic backgrounds.
The DfE guidance ‘Using pupil premium: guidance for school leaders’ and the EEF’s recent Guide to the Pupil Premium have been used to support our critical engagement with the evidence as we develop our strategy for the 2021-24 academic year and beyond.
The following document provides details of how the Pupil Premium funding for The London Oratory School is being spent.
The London Oratory School spent approximately £11,583 for the academic year 2023-24
HOW THE PREMIUM IS SPENT
The school uses the premium to fund:
· Towards funding a qualified sports coach
· To purchase additional sports equipment (in particular developing cricket, football, table tennis and water polo) and staff training in new sports.
100% of pupils within the year 6 cohort in the 2023 to2024 academic year have met the national curriculum swimming and water safety requirements.