Pupil Premium

Pupil Premium

Did you know … just registering your child for Free School Meals means that the school gets extra money?  For each child who is registered for free school meals, the school gets extra funding of £1,455.  Even if you don’t want your child to have the school meals, as long as you qualify and are registered the school will still receive the extra funding, and will continue to do so even if your child is no longer eligible.  This could be worth more than £9,000 to the school over a seven year period.  If you would like to apply for Pupil Premium, please do so at Free School Meals application - Eligibility - West Sussex Self Service (achieveservice.com).

What is the Pupil Premium?

Pupil Premium is an amount of money allocated to disadvantaged children in order to close the achievement gap.  

The government believes that the Pupil Premium, which is additional to main school funding, is the best way to address the inequalities between children eligible for free school meals (FSM), looked after children & service children and other pupils.  Three categories of pupils are eligible:

• Pupils recorded as ‘ever 6 FSM’ (pupils who are or have been eligible for FSM at any point during their 6 years of Primary school education)
• Looked after children and those children who have been adopted from care
• Children of Service personnel

 Pupils who are eligible for the pupil premium need to be aged 4 and over, in year groups to Year 11 in a maintained school. The proportion of children eligible at St Andrew’s is currently 18%.

Pupil Premium is allocated straight to our school and it is clearly identifiable. Schools are free to spend the Pupil Premium as they feel is appropriate. The government thinks that schools are best placed to assess what additional provision should be made for individual pupils within their responsibility. However all schools will be held accountable for how they have used additional funding to support pupils from low-income families and in care. The schools must report and publicise annually how the money has been spent and what impact has been made on the achievements of the pupils.

Pupil Premium Strategy

In summary, our three tiers of pupil premium spend focus on:

1) Improving the quality-first teaching provided to all eligible or non-eligible pupils through training, whole-school improvements and keeping up-to-date with curriculum approaches that work best for disadvantaged pupils

At St Andrew's, we use a wide range of strategies and approaches to ensure that all pupils have access to quality-first teaching. 

quality first teaching list.pdf

2) Providing evidence-based, focused targeted provision for those children who need additional support, in particular disadvantaged pupils

3) Wider strategies including improving attendance, communication with parents, readiness to learn and providing for pupils’ emotional health and well-being.

Strategy Document and Evaluation 2024-2025

Our current Pupil Premium Strategy document can be found here. 

 This is a DfE approved template and is designed to be updated yearly, but to be part of the 3 year plan up until 2027/2028. 

The reviewed statement will be uploaded to this page prior to 31st December 2025. The Leadership Team and Governing Body regularly reviews the impact of how we allocate our Pupil Premium funding to make sure it represents both value for money and has played a direct role in helping pupils to reach their full potential, both academically and socially. 

Previous Strategy Documents

See here for our strategy document for this year including reviewed outcomes for 2023-2024.

Please click here for our strategy document for the use of Pupil Premium funding for 2022-2023. 

Please click here to view our strategy for the use of Pupil Premium funding for 2021-2022. 

Previous Documents:

Please click here to view our strategy for the use of Pupil Premium funding for 2020-2021

 Please click here to view our strategy for the use of Pupil Premium funding for 2017-2018

 Please click here to view our strategy for the use of Pupil Premium funding for 2018-2019

Please click here to view our strategy for the use of Pupil Premium funding for 2019-2020.

Pupil Premium Team

Mrs Mulliss is our Pupil Premium Lead.  

Mrs Adam is our Pupil Premium Lead Governor. 

Mrs Wise (Headteacher), Mrs Cooper (SENDCO) are also on the team.