Pupil Premium is allocated to children from low-income families who are currently known to be eligible for Free School Meals (FSM) and children who have been looked after continuously for more than six months. Additionally, the following groups of children will qualify for Free School Meals (FSM):

• Children who are eligible for Free School Meals (FSM) or who have been recorded as eligible in the past 6 years (known as Ever 6 FSM)
• Children previously looked after by a local authority or other state care, including children adopted from state care or equivalent outside from England and Wales 
• Children who have at least one parent serving in the regular armed forces (including pupils with a parent who is on full commitment as part of the full-time reserve service) or have been registered as a 'service child' on any school census in the past 6 years

Schools are free to spend the Pupil Premium as they see fit.  However, we will be held accountable for how we have used the additional funding to support pupils from low-income families. All schools are now required to publish online information about how they have used the Premium funding. This will ensure that parents and others are made fully aware of the attainment of pupils covered by the Premium and the extra support that they receive.

We focus our Pupil Premium expenditure on the attainment and progress of disadvantaged children.  We plan and review a range of interventions and strategies that enable us to diminish the difference between disadvantaged pupils and non-disadvantaged pupils. The vast majority of the funding enables us to teach children in smaller groups, improve the quality of emotional support we can offer the children and to fund curricular and extra curricular activities to ensure every disadvantaged child has full access to a broad and varied provision throughout their time at Kingswood Primacy School.

To find out more, please see the Pupil Premium statement below detailing how funding will be used in 2024/2025: