Pupil & Sports Premium
The Government is giving money to schools to help children from lower income families do their very best. This funding is called a ‘Pupil Premium Grant.'
For every child registered, Buckland St Mary Primary gets an extra £1320 this year. Being such a small school, it really would make a huge amount of difference to those children.
Please register before the end of the Autumn Term to make sure your child and others in the school do not miss out from potential valuable intervention or helpful resources. Please go to www.somerset.gov.uk and complete the online application form to see if you are entitled to PPG. You do not have to accept Free School Meals but the school will still gain the funding to help your child develop academically and socially.
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What is Pupil Premium?
The Pupil Premium provides additional funding on top of the main funding a school receives. The aim of the funding is to ensure that all children, regardless of their economic background, have the same opportunities and academic outcomes. From September 2015, the premium will be worth £1,320 per pupil in receipt of Free School Meals at any point in the last six years. Students in care, who have been looked after by local authorities for more than six months also continue to qualify for the Pupil Premium. Students whose parents are in the armed services are entitled to a Service Premium of £300.
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How many pupils at Buckland St Mary C of E Primary School are eligible for the Pupil Premium?
Currently 8% of students at Buckland St Mary C of E Primary School are eligible for the Pupil Premium compared to 25.7% nationally. Of this number, all have been entitled to Free School Meals in the past six years, 0% are Services Families.
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Is there an issue with eligible pupils not applying for FSM?
In Somerset, when a Housing/Council Tax Benefit form is completed, this automatically entitles child(ren) in the family to receive free school meals. The Council inform the Student Services Team and the school of the child’s entitlement to free school meals.
Parents in receipt of Child Tax Credit are required to complete a free school meal application form. If you believe that you qualify for these tax benefits, please complete a form as it may mean additional funding is available for your child at school.
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How will the impact of the spending of the Pupil Premium be measured?
To monitor progress on attainment, new measures will be included in the performance tables that will capture the achievement of students covered by the Pupil Premium. At Buckland St Mary C of E School, the usual cycle of data collection and the monitoring and tracking of the cohort’s attainment, will be used to inform student progress and enable the early identification of need, support and appropriate intervention.
PE and Sports Premium
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Overview
The Government is providing funding of £150 million per annum from the academic year 2013/14 until 2020 as part of an Olympic legacy fund, to provide ‘new, substantial primary school sport funding’. This funding is being jointly provided by the Departments for Education, Health and Culture, Media and Sport, and will see money going directly to primary school headteachers to spend on improving the quality of sport and PE for all their children.
The sport funding is ring-fenced and can only be spent on sport and PE provision in schools.
Buckland St Mary Primary School Vision for PE
Our vision is for all children in the school to experience high quality curriculum-based Physical Education (PE), and for school sport and physical activity that will lead to life-long participation and love for sport.
Aims:
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To improve the health and wellbeing of pupils at Buckland St Mary Primary School.
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To provide and facilitate high quality opportunities and outcomes in sport.
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To assist each individual child to reach and fulfil their potential including the
overcoming of barriers to participation in PE & sport.
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To encourage and stimulate more involvement in physical activity by the children and
their families within the wider community.
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To promote lifelong learning, active participation and excellence in sport.
To raise achievement and support excellence.
How much and what do we spend our funding on?
Details of how the PE funding was spent last academic year, our plans for this year and the impact of the funding, can be found in the document below.