Pupil Premium (and recovery funding)
What is the Pupil Premium?
The Pupil Premium was introduced in April 2011 and paid to local authorities by a grant based on the January census figures for pupils registered as eligible for free school meals (FSM) in Reception to Year 11. It is allocated to children from low-income families who are currently known to be eligible for FSM in both mainstream and non-mainstream settings. Currently, for each FSM pupil a school receives £1,345 and for looked after child or previously looked after, a school receives £2,345. Those children attracting the £2,345 do so due to having left local-authority care as a result of one of the following:
- adoption
- a special guardianship order
- a child arrangements order (previously known as a residence order)
- who has been in local-authority care for 1 day or more
- recorded as both eligible for FSM in the last 6 years and as being looked after (or as having left local-authority care)
During the COVID19 pandemic, the government has also allocated recovery funding to schools, previously known as catch-up funding.
Please register your child if...
Please register your child if you are eligible using the easy online facility which has been launched by Hampshire County Council Catering Services (HC3S). You can now check your eligibility for FSM. This self-service option is available at:
https://www.hants.gov.uk/educationandlearning/freeschoolmeals/juniorsecondary
For this online service, all you need to do is enter your name, National Insurance number or Asylum number, address and your child’s details. Then press submit and find out if you are eligible. If the result comes back found, this means your child is eligible for FSM and the system automatically tells the school. You no longer have to find the paperwork and go into school to get it checked. As from April 2012, the Government has widened the coverage of the Premium to include those eligible for FSM at any point in the last six years (known as the Ever 6 FSM measure). Schools decide how the Pupil Premium is spent, since it is recognised that they are best placed to assess what additional provision should be made for the individual pupils within their responsibility.
The Service Children Premium
The Service Children Premium is currently £310. This is to support their emotional and social well-being. The Ministry of Defence has recently announced that the Service Children premium will be extended to include children whose parent has left the service up to three years ago, this is known as Ever 3. Please inform the school if one parent is in the services or has been in the last three years.
How is the funding used at St Mary's CE Junior School?
Please refer to the 2021 document below for the planned use of the Pupil premium funding for 2021-22, which also includes the review of the schools use of the funding in the academic year 2020-21.