Pupil Premium

MDCP’s Vision for our SEND and Vulnerable Pupils:

  • Our VISION for the school and all pupils with SEND is ‘Growing together to be the We aim for all of our pupils to progress along the Skillsbuilder expectations and demonstrate our key values of being CONFIDENT COMMUNICATORS, RESILIENT LEARNERS, ASPIRATIONAL CITIZENS and COMMUNITY CHAMPIONS
  • We work towards achieving this as our MISSION is that ‘We work together so that everyone can achieve their unique potential’. This particularly resonates for our pupils with SEND as we want them to reach their full potential and be ready for the move to their next setting- ASPIRATIONAL CITIZENS
  • For the majority this will be to happily and confidently transition to mainstream secondary school. For others it may mean specialised provision- RESILIENT LEARNERS
  • We aim for all our pupils to find the best school for their needs and to work closely with families to ensure they have the best choice of onward education to meet their needs so that they can become valuable members of society. COMMUNITY CHAMPIONS
  • Whilst with us we work together with parents and carers to support individual development and celebrate their successes on their pathway to achieve their unique potential- COMMUNITY CHAMPIONS
  • We aim for all our pupils to confidently share their ideas and understanding, to know how to independently overcome obstacles and to seek support if they need it-CONFIDENT COMMUNICATORS

What is Pupil Premium?

The pupil premium is additional funding for publicly funded schools in England to raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils and close the gap between them and their peers. Introduced in April 2011, the pupil premium is allocated to children who are looked after by the local authority, those who have been eligible for Free School Meals (FSM) at any point in the last six years (also known as Ever 6 FSM) and for children whose parents are currently serving in the armed forces. From April 2014 children who are looked after attract a higher rate of funding than children from low-income families - the ‘Pupil Premium Plus’. This is to reflect the unique challenges they face at school where they often struggle to keep up with their peers at both primary and secondary level.

Schools are free to spend the Pupil Premium as they see fit. However, they will be held accountable for how they have used the additional funding to support pupils from low-income families. The main purpose of the grant is to diminish the difference between Pupil Premium pupils and Non-Pupil Premium pupils.

A report must be published by 31st December each year on how the funding will be spent.  It should take the format as set out here ...https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium

Information from The Government:

Pupil premium: conditions of grant for the 2025 to 2026 financial year - GOV.UK

 

Information about our Pupil Premium Spending

Pupil Premiumn Strategy 2023-24

Pupil Premium Strategy 2024-25

Pupil Premium Strategy 2025 - 26

 

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We follow research based advice from the Education Endowment Foundation guidance for Pupil Premium Spending:

https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/guidance-for-teachers/using-pupil-premium

What Schools should publish online about the Pupil Premium: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/what-maintained-schools-must-publish-online#pupil-premium

Pupil premium

You must publish a strategy for the school’s use of the pupil premium. DfE has published templates to help schools present their pupil premium strategy statements.

You may wish to plan your pupil premium use over 3 years. You should aim to update the online strategy statement by the end of the autumn term each year to reflect your plans for the academic year after assessing the needs of your pupils, both new and existing.

For the current academic year, you must include:

  • your school’s pupil premium grant allocation amount
  • a summary of the main barriers to educational achievement faced by eligible pupils at the school
  • how you’ll spend the pupil premium to overcome those barriers and the reasons for that approach
  • how you’ll measure the effect of the pupil premium
  • the date of the next review of the school’s pupil premium strategy

For the previous academic year, you must include:

  • how you spent the pupil premium allocation
  • the effect of the expenditure on pupils

We understand that evaluating the pupil premium’s impact in the 2019 to 2020 academic year will present difficulties as a result of reduced numbers of pupils having attended between March and July 2020.

Instead, schools may wish to monitor and report on the grant’s impact at the end of the current financial year, bearing in mind their duty to update this information at least annually, covering the whole period since September 2019.