Pupil Premium

The Pupil Premium has one central aim: to raise the educational outcomes of disadvantaged pupils.

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. It can be used:
• to support other pupils with identified needs, such as those who have or have had a social worker, or who act as a carer
• for whole class interventions which will also benefit non-disadvantaged pupils

Pupil premium funding is allocated to local authorities based on the number of:
• looked-after children, supported by the local authority
• pupils who meet any of the eligibility criteria and who attend an independent setting, where the local authority pays full tuition fees

Deyes High school use a tiered approach to Pupil Premium Spending focused on high quality teaching, targeted academic support and other wider strategies, for example non-academic challenges.