Pupil Premium
Pupil Premium provides funding for children:
- who have been in receipt of free school meals (FSM) at any point in the past 6 years (£1 550 per child)
- who have been previously looked after, subject of a special guardianship order and / or adopted from care (£2 690 per child)
- pupil premium plus children currently being looked after or in care (£2 690 per child per school year – held by the LA Virtual School Head accessed via PEP return)
- whose parents are currently serving in the armed forces (£360 per child)
Schools are held accountable by the government for the spending of these monies as they are best placed to identify the needs of each child. Performance tables will capture the achievement of disadvantage children covered by the Pupil Premium.
Northern Primary School is committed to providing effective resources and ensuring vital support is in place for our disadvantaged children to improve their academic outcomes and ensure that this is in line with their peers.
We have high aspirations for all the children in our school community and believe that all children should be given the opportunity to reach their full potential. We seek, as a school community, to provide personalised learning opportunities and targeted support to allow every child to flourish.
Rights Respecting Schools Ethos
At Northern, we are a Rights Respecting School and support the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). This is a set of 54 Articles that cover all aspects of a child’s life – civil, political, economical, social and cultural rights, all of which, children everywhere are entitled to. Our Pupil Premium policy relates to many of the Articles including;
- Article 3 – (best interests of the child) The best interests of the child must be a top priority in all decisions and actions that affect children.
- Article 12 – (respect for the views of the child) Every child has the right to express their views, feelings and wishes in all matters affecting them, and to have their views considered and taken seriously. This right applies at all times, for example during immigration proceedings, housing decisions or the child’s day-to-day home life.
- Article 27 – (adequate standard of living) Every child has the right to a standard of living that is good enough to meet their physical and social needs and support their development. Governments must help families who cannot afford to provide this.
- Article 28 – (right to education) Every child has the right to an education. Primary education must be free and different forms of secondary education must be available to every child. Discipline in schools must respect children’s dignity and their rights. Richer countries must help poorer countries achieve this.
- Article 29 – (goals of education) Education must develop every child’s personality, talents and abilities to the full. It must encourage the child’s respect for human rights, as well as respect for their parents, their own and other cultures, and the environment.
- Article 39 – (recovery from trauma and reintegration) Children who have experienced neglect, abuse, exploitation, torture or who are victims of war must receive special support to help them recover their health, dignity, self-respect and social life.
As we recognise that not all pupils who are academically or socially disadvantaged are registered for free school meals, we follow recent DfE guidance to allocate Pupil Premium funding to support any pupil, or group of pupils, identified by the school as being at a significant disadvantage as long as these interventions are demonstrably improving the performance of the pupils in receipt of the grant.
In order to meet the above requirements, the Governing Body of Northern Primary School will ensure that provision is made which secures the teaching and learning opportunities that meet the needs of all pupils.
The following documents are aimed to inform parents and others about how Northern Primary has used the Pupil Premium funding to ensure this happens in 2024-25.
PE and Sports Premium
Vision for the Primary PE and Sport Premium is for ALL pupils leaving primary school to be physically literate and with the knowledge, skills and motivation necessary to equip them for a healthy, active lifestyle and lifelong participation in physical activity and sport.
It is expected that schools will see an improvement against the following 5 key indicators:
- the engagement of all pupils in regular physical activity – kick-starting healthy active lifestyles
- the profile of PE and sport being raised across the school as a tool for whole school improvement
- increased confidence, knowledge and skills of all staff in teaching PE and sport
- broader experience of a range of sports and activities offered to all pupils
- increased participation in competitive sport
Please read the information below which gives details of our PE and Sport Premium Grant and how we allocate the funding.
We have high aspirations for all the children in our school community and believe that all children should be given the opportunity to reach their full potential. We seek, as a school community, to provide personalised learning opportunities and targeted support to allow every child to flourish.
Covid Catch-up Premium Strategy
At Northern, the school community seeks to develop happy and confident children who are challenged to aspire to excellence whilst caring for, and respecting, themselves and others regardless of background or barrier to learning in all aspects of school life. We are committed to providing an environment that will develop a happy and healthy child.
We believe this is the key to encouraging each child to achieve his/her full potential and become a responsible and independent citizen. Our vision for Northern Primary School reflects a passionate commitment to learning and recognition of the uniqueness of individual learners. It is driven by our desire to offer the best possible education for our pupils in partnership with parents and the local community.
This is the driving reason behind working towards becoming a ‘Right’s Respecting School’. At Northern, we are a Rights Respecting School and support the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). This is a set of 54 Articles that cover all aspects of a child’s life – civil, political, economical, social and cultural rights, all of which, children everywhere are entitled to.
We are duty bearers helping to ensure that the children of Northern and beyond enjoy and have access to all of their rights as set out by the UN Convention for the Rights of the Child
The children at Northern have worked together to create a set of values that they believe are the key to ensuring Northern is a place to ‘Learn and be happy’. Each class has created their own class charter of values that they follow to ensure there is always a happy learning environment. These have then created the school charter of values:
- Friendship Forgiveness
- Collaboration
- Self-belief
- Perseverance
- Responsibility
- Respect
- Honesty
- Compassion
- Fairness
As a school, staff, governors and parents are all working together to ensure that the funding provides specific activities to support our pupils to catch up for lost teaching over the previous months in line with the curriculum expectations as we are best placed to understand the needs of our school community. The plan that follows identifies how Northern will use the funding in a way that suits our cohort and circumstances to identify and provide specific activities which will help all of our pupils catch up on missed education. This strategy will be a working document which adapts to needs as they arise.
‘For many children, the disruption caused by school closures will have had a negative impact on learning and wellbeing. Children from disadvantaged backgrounds are likely to have been affected particularly severely by school closures and may need more support to return to school and settle back into school life. For many pupils, compensating for the negative impact of school closures will require a sustained response. It is highly unlikely that a single approach will be enough.’
(EEF Covid-19 Support Guide for Schools – June 2020)
At Northern, we understand that this negative impact may well have been felt by any child regardless of their background and therefore our support that we provide will address the need of every child within the school community as it arises.
As a school, our leaders and governors must ensure that funding is being used to resume the teaching of a normal curriculum as quickly as possible. This will also align with Pupil Premium spending and broader school improvement priorities. Within Northern we are therefore focusing our implementation of strategies into three key categories based on the EEF Tiered Approach:
- Teaching and whole-school strategies
- supporting great teaching
- pupil assessment and feedback
- making the most of remote learning
- Targeted support
- one to one and small group tuition
- deployment of Teaching Assistants
- reading is rewarding
- Wider strategies
- supporting parents and carers
- supporting mental health and wellbeing
- transition support
To ensure that the funding is to have maximum impact it was agreed with the governing body that the implementation of strategies would be withheld until the summer term 2021 to ensure that there was a higher likelihood of consistency in attendance of pupils and staff.