Pupil, Recovery and Sports Premium

Pupil Premium

The pupil premium grant is funding to improve educational outcomes for disadvantaged pupils in state-funded schools in England.  At Bourton Meadow Academy, we recognise that some children, because of their background and family circumstances, face a wider range of barriers which may impact on their ability to learn. We therefore target our pupil premium grant on addressing those barriers.

Our objectives are to ensure our pupils engage with learning and have full access to our curriculum and the breadth and wealth of opportunities and cultural capital it provides them with. We will achieve this through:

• promoting and facilitating high attendance at school
• providing high quality teaching
• supporting children’s wellbeing, thereby developing their resilience and ability to learn. 

Our Pupil Premium Strategy Statement for 2024-25 outlines where the pupil premium and recovery premium funding for 2023-24 has been spent, how school is proposing to spend the funding for 2024-25 and what impact we expect the funding to have. It is the third year of a three-year plan running from 2022/23 to 2024/25. It replaces all previous plans.

Please click on the link below to see our current Pupil Premium Strategy Statement.

This information is reviewed annually and published on our website.

Eligibility for Pupil Premium Funding

Parents can apply for Pupil Premium if their child has been:

• recorded as eligible for Free Schools Meals (FSM) in the last six years; or
• Looked after continuously for 1 day or more by a local authority; or
• Adopted from care

Service Pupil Premium (SPP)

Service pupil premium was introduced to assist schools in providing additional support for children from service families. It has been combined into pupil premium payments by the Department for Education. It is primarily to help with pastoral support but can also be used to help improve the academic progress of eligible pupils if the school deem this to be a priority.

Eligibility for Service Pupil Premium Funding

Parents can apply for the Service Pupil Premium for any child at the school who has a parent who:

• is serving in HM Forces
• has retired on a pension from the Ministry of Defence
• has died whilst serving in the armed forces and the pupil receives a pension under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme or the War Pensions Scheme

Early Years Pupil Premium (EYPP)

Early Years Pupil Premium is additional funding for early years’ pre-school settings to improve the education they provide for disadvantaged 3- and 4 year-olds including, but not restricted to, those adopted from care.

Eligibility for Early Years Pupil Premium

Early Years Pupil Premium can be claimed if a child is accessing free early education and the child is:

• aged 3 or 4 (but not 4 year-olds in reception class at school)
• has left care under an adoption order or a special guardianship order or a residence
• order/child arrangements order

or

• the child’s parent or carer is in receipt of a qualifying benefit

What to do if you think your child is eligible for pupil premium funding.

If you think that your family circumstances meet the criteria for pupil premium, service pupil premium or early years’ pupil premium, please complete the form (see link below) and return it to the school office.