Pupil Premium Funding

We aim to use the Pupil Premium allocation to support attainment and maximise children’s potential in terms of learning, raised expectations, high aspiration, experiences and readiness for their next stage in education. At the heart of this, and integral to our approach, is an expectation of high-quality teaching for all children.  

Our strategy is to maximise teaching capacity so that highly effective teachers work with those who need support the most. Therefore, a significant proportion of the funding we receive is focused on enhancing our teaching provision as we strongly believe this is where we can have the greatest impact on the life chances of the children who attend South Bank Primary School.  

We know good teaching is the most important lever school’s have to improve outcomes for disadvantaged learners. Having high aspirations for all children is seen as everyone’s responsibility in our ethos of shared accountability. 

The level of Pupil Premium funding varies year-on-year according to the number of children eligible for free school meals.  The funding received by the school annually is used in a variety of ways to give all pupils every opportunity to achieve their potential and to help overcome any barriers to learning.  We have utilised and implemented strategies that have been researched and analysed extensively to inform us of the best ways to use this 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 the children of armed service personnel.

All schools are required to report on the amount of funding received and details of how it is intended that the allocation will be spent. Schools are also required to report on details of how the previous academic year’s expenditure on educational attainment of those pupils at the school in respect of whom grant funding was allocated.

The plan below is our Action Plan of how we intend to spend our Pupil Premium money this academic year and the impact the previous year's premium had.   

Our evaluation of how we spent our Pupil Premium money is published at the end of the academic year.