What is Pupil Premium?

The pupil premium is extra money for schools to help disadvantaged pupils of all abilities achieve their full potential.

The amount of pupil premium funding schools receive is decided by how many disadvantaged pupils they have – schools then receive funding per pupil premium-eligible child.

Eligibility and funding

Pupil premium funding is calculated from the number of pupils in school each year from the following groups:

• Free school meals.
• Looked after and previously looked after children.
• Service premium- eligibility relates to pupils with a parent serving in HM Forces or in receipt of a pension from the Ministry of Defence. This funding is to help with pastoral support.
• Recovery premium is a time-limited grant, which provided over £300 million of additional funding for state-funded schools in the 2021-2022 academic year and also providing a further £1billion across state-funded schools in the 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 academic years.

The Government requires all schools to report to parents on the amount of Pupil Premium Funding they receive each year and how it was/is being used.

An impact of the funding will also be reported, once the information become available.

Please see the information below which identifies how St Brendan’s plans to, or has used, the money allocated to us.