Pupil Premium

Schools receive £1,385 for any child who has been eligible for free school meals during the last six years. They also receive funding for pupils who are looked after by the local authority or who are in care for adoption, guardianship and two other ‘orders.’ This money is known as the Pupil Premium Grant (PPG). 

Our children have different barriers to learning; the most common barriers for our disadvantaged children are that they are less likely to have support at home with their learning. They may also have limited new and exciting opportunities which sometimes causes them to have low aspirations. Some of our disadvantaged children may also have weaker language and communication skills and they are more likely to have significant issues in basic Literacy and Numeracy skills. They may also have poor attendance and punctuality. Another barrier to learning for some of our disadvantaged children is low confidence and resilience and we have seen an increasing number of our children struggling with anxiety. 

We carefully plan how our funding is spent and research the most effective strategies to help overcome these barriers. We analyse the impact of our strategies to ensure they are helping to diminish the difference between the attainment of our disadvantaged children compared to other children both in school and nationally. All our disadvantaged children benefit from the strategies that we have in place. 

At Regents Park Community Primary School, we recognise that high quality teaching and interventions are the most effective strategies to diminishing the difference between the achievements of our disadvantaged children compared to other pupils. We use the funding to ensure our children benefit from having individual and small group support in each year group. We have also spent funding on Early Years intervention in order to diminish the difference between disadvantaged and other children at an earlier age as research suggests this is one of the most effective strategies.  

We recognise that some children can be helped to reach their potential through having targeted support for their social, emotional and behaviour needs therefore the funding is used to run our Breakfast club and enables us to have a play therapist, speech and language therapist and a learning mentor. We have also used the funding to build a sensory room to support children with additional needs and a peer mediation room. 

The funding is also used to give our pupils new opportunities and experiences such as working with an artist, learning to play a musical instrument and having sessions in our forest school. The funding also contributes to educational visits so the children can have exciting and new opportunities and enhance their learning. Please look at our Creative Arts and Forest school pages on the website as well as our twitter page to see the exciting things our children have been doing. 

We would encourage any eligible parents/carers to apply for free school meals as it helps us to fund additional support for individual learners. This can be in the form of learning interventions or pastoral support, and it is used to provide extra-curricular and new opportunities for the children. If you are unsure about your eligibility, please contact school for further information.  

The table below shows the breakdown and total funding we will receive this year and our strategy plan outlines how we intend to use the funding and why we have chosen specific strategies.  

Please click here to read our strategy plan   

The tables below outline how we spent our pupil premium funding in 2021-22 and 2020-2021. In 2021-22 we had a large carry forward from 2020-2021 as a number of strategies that we had planned for such as after school tuition and Breakfast Club could not take place during the pandemic.  

2021-2022 

The total Pupil Premium funding allocation for this year was £380,635 which was £1,345 per pupil. There was also a carry forward of £79,350 from the previous year’s spend due to the pandemic. This funding was used for additional staff for learning interventions and to fund every child to visit a book shop and purchase books to take home. The funding also enabled us to build a new peer mediation room and to purchase Little Wandle resources for phonics and reading. There was also £20,518 recovery premium which was used towards the cost of intervention teachers and £4,460 Early Years Premium which was used to provide the children with weekly sessions with a music specialist and to subsidise educational visits. It was also used to purchase books and resources for children to use at home to support parental engagement.  

The table below shows how the Pupil Premium budget was spent:  

2020-2021 

The total allocation for pupil premium children for this year was  £376,600 which was £1,320 per pupil. There was also a carry forward of £14,604 from the previous year's spend which contributed to the cost of additional TA's to support with interventions in phases.  

280 (48%) of our pupils received the funding. 

The table below shows how Pupil Premium budget was spent:   

The Early Years funding was used to pay for a music specialist to work with the children to improve communication and language skills.