Pupil Premium

Pupil Premium at Wantage CE Primary School

What is Pupil Premium?

The Pupil Premium is additional funding for publicly funded schools in England to raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils and to close the gap between them and their peers. Pupil Premium funding is available to:

local authority maintained schools, including special school and pupil referral units
voluntary-sector alternative provision with local authority agreement
special schools not maintained by the local authority
academies and free schools, including special and AP (Alternative Provision) academies.

Pupil Premium, using additional resources from outside the School’s Budget, is intended to address the current inequalities by ensuring funding reaches the pupils who need it most.

Pupil Premium at Wantage CE Primary School

At Wantage CE Primary School we have always strived to ensure that all children make good progress. Our pastoral care and vigorous monitoring and tracking of all pupils help us to identify any pupils who are at risk of not making sufficient progress and have helped us to plan and implement good intervention strategies.

Nature of Support

Support at Wantage CE Primary School takes many different forms and has been used to enhance provision specifically for individual children and thereby promote learning and deepen engagement and to provide, as needed, pastoral support through, for example, access to emotional literacy support. Funding has also been used to ensure that children are not disadvantaged in taking part in wider curriculum opportunities (e.g. residential trips). As the school places a high priority on the support of all children, additional funding from the school budget is used to supplement the funding provided by government.

Other places where funding goes:

Quality First Teaching with additional teaching staff to provide targeted teaching
HSLW (Home School Link Worker) salary to improve attendance and provide parenting support
Teaching Assistants in all classrooms
Continued Professional Development for teaching staff and teaching assistants
The development of the library and additional resources to engage reluctant and more able readers
Setting up of a dedicated nurture room together with nurture groups to include staffing/resources
Introduction of Read Write Inc. This is a method of learning round letter sounds and phonics to aid children in their reading and writing
Residential and other trips
Various interventions to provide additional support to reading, writing, maths and social development