Pupil Premium
What is Pupil Premium?
At Our Lady & St Gerard’s RC Primary School, we believe that every child should have the opportunity to flourish, achieve their full potential and learn, grow and shine. Pupil Premium is additional funding provided to schools to improve educational outcomes for disadvantaged pupils. We use this funding carefully and strategically, drawing on evidence and our knowledge of the individual needs of our children to remove barriers to learning, raise achievement and promote wellbeing. Our approach focuses on high-quality teaching, targeted academic support and wider strategies that help pupils participate fully in school life and succeed. This reflects the recognised tiered approach to Pupil Premium spending.
Common barriers for disadvantaged pupils can be; weak language and communication skills, lack of confidence, more frequent behavioural difficulties, attendance and punctuality issues and less support at home. There may also be complex family situations that can have an impact on children’s learning and progress. The challenges are complex and varied, therefore, it is important that individual needs are identified and catered for as we are very clear that negative, outside influences are not an excuse for underachievement.
At Our Lady and St. Gerard’s RC Primary School, there is a school-wide commitment to raising achievement for ALL pupils and a key objective for the use of the pupil premium grant is to close the gap between pupil groups.
To ensure that we have a longer term approach to raising attainment of disadvantaged pupils, we have moved to the recommended 3 year strategy. The strategy will be reviewed annually, updated and published here.