Pupil Premium

Every child should be given the chance to realise their potential at school. The pupil premium is extra money for schools to help disadvantaged pupils of all abilities achieve their full potential.

Pupil premium funding is allocated to eligible schools based on the number of:

• pupils who are recorded as eligible for free school meals, or have been recorded as eligible in the past 6 years (referred to as Ever 6 FSM)
• children previously looked after by a local authority or other state care, including children adopted from state care or equivalent from outside England and Wales

Pupil premium is not a personal budget for individual pupils, and schools do not have to spend pupil premium so that it solely benefits pupils who meet the funding criteria. Some of the support and resources funded by the pupil premium also benefits children who may not necessarily be eligible for free school meals but have been identified by the school as being at a disadvantage compared to their peers.

Schools are required to publish online information about how they have used the Premium. This will ensure that parents and others are made fully aware of the attainment of pupils covered by the Premium.

The statement below details Grove Park's use of funding to help improve the attainment of our disadvantaged pupils. It outlines strategy, how we intend to spend the funding in this academic year and the effect that last year's spending had within our school.

pupil premium recovery for the website 2024 2025.pdf