The government provide additional funding to publicly funded schools in England to support learning.
Pupil Premium - Green Gates Academy
If your child is eligible for free school meals, they may also be entitled to a sum of money paid to their school to boost their learning. We explain the ins and outs of the pupil premium for parents.
Introduced in 2011, the pupil premium is a sum of money given to schools each year by the Government to improve the attainment of disadvantaged children.
This is based on research showing that children from low income families perform less well at school than their peers. Often, children who are entitled to pupil premium face challenges such as poor language and communication skills, lack of confidence and issues with attendance and punctuality. The pupil premium is intended to directly benefit the children who are eligible, helping to narrow the gap between them and their classmates.
Schools are given a pupil premium for:
- Children who have qualified for free school meals at any point in the past six years. The school receives £1320 for each of these children.
- Children who are or have been looked after under local authority care for more than one day. These children are awarded a premium of £2300.
- Children from service families who receive a child pension from the Ministry of Defence. They are awarded £300.
Schools can choose how to spend their pupil premium money, as they are best placed to identify what would be of most benefit to the children who are eligible.
Please refer to the reports below to view how Green Gates Academy spend their pupil premium funding
Pupil premium strategy statement
Pupil Pupil Premium and Recovery Funding 2023-24
See our Pupil Pupil Premium and Recovery Funding 2022-2023 here
Green Gates Academy is funded through the Education Funding Agency, not through the local authority. Academies get the same level of funding for each pupil as local authority schools in the same area; their notional SEN budget is worked out in the same way; they can get top-up funding from the local authority in the same way. Academies do get extra funding, but this is not related to SEN: it is for services that Academies have to buy for themselves, services that are provided by the local authority for local authority schools.
National Funding Headlines:
- In April 2013 the government made changes to the way that funding is provided to schools. The funding changes do not change the legal responsibilities of schools and local authorities for children with special educational needs (SEN).
- The government is also making changes to the SEN system. The changes, currently set out in the Children and Families Bill, will start in September 2014. We are aiming to deliver an information session on the changes for all parents/carers early in the Autumn Term.
- The government has now finalised the funding that will be available for primary schools to deliver universal free school meals to all pupils in Reception, Year 1, and Year 2, beginning in September this year. £1bn has been committed for this policy in the budget for the next two years, with an allocation of £2.30 per meal taken. In addition, the government will be providing £150m capital to help schools upgrade their kitchens and dining rooms to meet the expected increased demand.