Pupil Premium
The pupil premium grant provides funding to improve educational outcomes for disadvantaged pupils in state-funded schools in England.
It is allocated according to the number of pupils on roll in the following categories:
- Pupils who are eligible for free school meals (FSM) or have been eligible for free school meals within the last 6 years
• Pupils in local authority care for 6 months or more
• Pupils from service families
The service pupil premium (SPP) provides support for children and young people of service families. It is combined into pupil premium payments to make it easier for schools to manage their spending. Pupils that the SPP intends to support are not necessarily from financially disadvantaged backgrounds.
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:
- High quality teaching
- Targeted academic support
- Wider strategies
Our key objectives at Dobcroft nursery infant are to:
- Raise standards for eligible pupils to close the gap on national outcomes
- Increase the attendance and decreasing the persistent absence of all pupils
- Increase and maintaining the quality of teaching for all pupils
- Overcome the learning barriers of all pupils with a particular focus on those who are disadvantaged
- Maximise the engagement and readiness to learn for all pupils.
If you feel your child would be eligible for support under this criteria and would like more information then please speak to your child’s class teacher or if of a more general nature contact Mrs Singh at singhz@dobcroft-inf.sheffield.sch.uk
If you think you may be entitled to Free School Meals, please go to https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/schools-childcare/school-meals to find out more and make an application.