What Is Pupil Premium?

Pupil premium is funding allocated to schools for the specific purpose of boosting the attainment of pupils from low-income families. Funding is based on children registered for a free school meal at any point in the last 6 years, children that are in care or adopted and children whose parents are currently serving in the armed forces.

Why Has It Been Introduced?

The Government believes that the Pupil Premium, which is additional to main school funding, is the best way to address the current underlying inequalities between disadvantaged children and their peers by ensuring that funding to tackle disadvantage reaches the pupils who need it most. Whilst schools are free to spend the Pupil Premium as they see fit, we are required to publish online information about how we have used the Premium.

For the current academic year September 2024 to July 2025 our school will receive £50,630 of Pupil Premium funding. The percentage of pupils eligible for pupil premium at Wren Park is 7% the national percentage is 24.6%

Please see below for our complete Pupil Premium Strategy Statement.

How we support our Pupil Premium children across school

A child who is in the Pupil Premium cohort at Wren Park can expect to benefit from some of the following:

• Academic support
• Pastoral support
• Assistance with equipment and uniform
• Extra access to Teaching Assistants
• One to one support or small group support
• Help with funding educational trips and visits
• Support with emotional health and wellbeing
• Enrichment activities
• General curriculum support
• Intervention work
• Lunchtime support
• Creative and individualised strategy to break down barriers to learning and promote progress
• Extra recognition and reward

It is important to note that often all of the children in a class will reap some benefit from how the school spends its pupil premium: for example, if the money is used to fund an additional assistant, then at times the whole class would benefit not just the children in the Pupil Premium cohort.

At times within the child’s education at Wren Park they may receive differing levels of additional support through Pupil Premium with some “lighter” support and “more intense” support based upon specific context and presenting needs of the child.

• Please click here for details of how to claim for Free School Meals
• Apply for Free School Meals - Check if your child can get free school meals in England and find out how to apply on your local authority’s website.

Funding for Looked-after children

For the academic year 2024-2025, we have received £2,570 for children who are looked after (including Post Looked after children).

With this funding, funding is spent on any adopted or fostered child, to provide educational or emotional support above and beyond that of other pupils. It is the responsibility of individual schools to decide how this money is spent, although the impact of the funding has to be closely monitored.

At Wren Park we have made the decision to give each Looked After Child additional support for 30 minutes each day. This support is being provided by either Teachers or Teaching Assistants. It is the class teacher's responsibility to decide on targets and programmes of work for each child and to regularly review the impact that this is having on the child's learning or development.

If your child is a Looked After Child, his/her class teacher will be able to share the targets with you and discuss any concerns or issues you may have. Alternatively if you would like to discuss your child's needs with a member of SLT, please contact the school office for an appointment.