Pupil Premium
Pupil Premium, Free School Meals and Service Pupil Premium
At The Fellowship, we are committed to ensuring that every child has the opportunity to achieve their full potential. Pupil Premium funding provides additional support for children who may face barriers to learning due to financial circumstances or family service commitments.
What is Pupil Premium?
Pupil Premium is additional funding provided by the government to schools to help improve educational outcomes for disadvantaged pupils. Schools use this funding to provide targeted support, resources, interventions and enrichment opportunities that help children succeed both academically and socially.
Funding may be used to support:
- Additional teaching and intervention programmes
- Educational visits and enrichment activities
- Pastoral and wellbeing support
- Access to learning resources and equipment
- Support for attendance and engagement
- Breakfast clubs and wider curriculum opportunities
Where can I find information on how the school uses the Pupil Premium Grant?
Every year our schools publish a copy of the Pupil Premium Statement of Impact for the previous year and an Action Plan for Spending for the upcoming year. These documents can be found at the bottom of this page.
The documents detail how the grant was spent to support the academic achievements and health and wellbeing of pupils over the previous year. It also states the amount of money the schools will receive for the coming year and how the schools intend to spend it.
Who Can Apply for Free School Meals and Pupil Premium?
If you are on a low income or receive Child Benefit AND any of the following benefits, you could claim free school meals for your child.
To qualify for Free School Meals you must CURRENTLY receive one of the following benefits.
- Universal Credit with an annual net earned income of no more than £7,400.
- Income Support
- Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
- Income-related Employment and Support Allowance
- Support under Part 6 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
- The guarantee element of Pension Credit
- Working Tax Credit run-on (paid for the four weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit)
- Child Tax Credit (with no Working Tax Credit) with an annual income of no more than £16,190
Even if your child is in Reception, Year 1 or Year 2 and receives Universal Infant Free School Meals, we still encourage eligible families to apply as this enables the school to receive additional Pupil Premium funding.
Why Apply?
Registering for Pupil Premium can provide benefits for both your child and the school.
Your child may benefit from:
- Free school meals each day (where applicable)
- Reduced costs for some school trips and activities
- Access to additional support and opportunities
The school receives additional funding which can be used to enhance provision and provide targeted support for eligible pupils.
Service Pupil Premium
Service Pupil Premium is additional funding provided to schools to support children whose parents serve in the armed forces.
Your child may be eligible if they have a parent who is:
- Currently serving in the regular armed forces
- Registered as a service child on the school census
- A member of the reserve forces who has been deployed on operational duty
- A child whose parent has left the armed forces within the last six years
How to Apply
Applying is quick, simple and confidential. If you think your child may be eligible for Free School Meals, Pupil Premium or Service Pupil Premium, you can apply using the following link Free school meals | North Yorkshire Council or please contact the school office who will be happy to help you complete the application process.
School Office Contact Details
Telephone: 01423 734540 (North Rigton) 01423 872491 (All Saints)
Email: admin@northrigton.ycway.uk / admin@allsaints.ycst.co.uk
We encourage all eligible families to register. Even if your child chooses not to take a school meal, registering may still provide valuable additional funding that helps us support their education and wellbeing.
YCST Shared Principles for Pupil Premium:
At Yorkshire Causeway Schools Trust, we believe in meeting the needs of all pupils, including pupils in receipt of the pupil premium grant with a school commitment to high quality learning. The values of the trust informs this approach.
“Where everyone is valued and respected, where we share commitment to education that is ambitious, setting the highest expectations and where integrity is the foundation” (YCST vision statement)
Core Principles:
• High quality, inclusive teaching and learning for all
• Provision that supports an improvement in well-being and/or an increase in academic attainment for all
“Pupils with better health and wellbeing are likely to achieve better academically.” (The link between pupil health and well-being and attainment: Public Health England)
• Addressing barriers to learning and the characteristics of less successful learners
• Monitoring and evaluation
• A commitment to working collaboratively to provide challenge and support
These principles and based on current research evidence and are understood by all members of the school community. Whilst these are the shared principles of the trust, we recognise the individual settings and therefore needs of each of our school are different.
“Evidence shows that more good teaching for all pupils will especially benefit the most disadvantaged.” Sir Kevan Collins (Chief executive of the Education Endowment Foundation)
Our core principles are under-pinned by the following procedures:
• Strategic reviews with peer partners – every 3 years
• Case studies
• Regular communications with parents
• On-going school based monitoring and evaluation
• Class provision maps
• Reports to Governors
• Annual Pupil Premium Report *
*While we are required to post a report detailing the impact of how we have allocated funds from the Pupil Premium Grant, we do not conduct analysis on pupil premium students as a group, since our children do not always share similar needs. Data collected on such small groups is not statistically reliable.
“Effective schools also recognise that disadvantaged pupils are not a homogenous group and employ targeted approaches for groups and individuals facing particular barriers.”
(Effective pupil premium reviews 2016: Teaching School Council)
