Pupil Premium is an amount of money allocated to disadvantaged children in order to close the achievement gap.

Our Pupil Premium income for 2024-2025 is £78,579

The government believes that the Pupil Premium, which is additional to main school funding, is the best way to address the inequalities between children eligible for free school meals (FSM), looked-after children & service children and other pupils.  Three categories of pupils are eligible:

• Pupils recorded as ‘Ever 6 FSM’ (pupils who are or have been eligible for free school meals at any point during their 6 years of primary school education)
• Looked after children and those children who have been adopted from care
• Children of Service personnel

Pupils who are eligible for the pupil premium need to be aged 4 and over, in year groups to year 11 in a maintained school. 

Pupil Premium is allocated straight to our school and it is clearly identifiable. Schools are free to spend the Pupil Premium as they feel is appropriate. The government thinks that schools are best placed to assess what additional provision should be made for individual pupils within their responsibility.

All schools are held accountable for how they have used additional funding to support pupils from low-income families and in care. The schools must report and publicise annually how the money has been spent and what impact has been made on the achievements of the pupils.

Barriers to Learning

We understand that all pupils may face different challenges that might affect their learning.  

At St Barnabas', we identify potential barriers to pupils’ learning so that we can ensure that every child makes progress and is successful at school – academically, socially and emotionally.

Some barriers to learning that some children might face at various times during their time at primary school include:

• Poor attendance and punctuality
• High mobility
• Low starting points on entry to primary school
• Speech, Language and Communication Needs
• Attachment and trauma

We realise that these barriers may not affect every pupil and are fully aware of the individual needs of the children in our school.  We ensure that through our curriculum planning and pastoral care, barriers can be addressed so that pupils are able to flourish in all areas of their learning.

Pupil Premium Statement 2024-2025 (Note: This is updated annually in December).

Recovery Premium Funding

Our Recovery Premium income for 2023-2024 was £7,323

The recovery premium grant is part of the government’s package of funding to support pupils whose education has been impacted by coronavirus (COVID-19).

It is a time-limited grant providing over £300m of additional funding for state-funded schools in the 2021 to 2022 academic year and £1bn across the 2022 to 2023 and 2023 to 2024 academic years.

It is focused on pupil premium eligible pupils and pupils in specialist settings such as special schools, special units and pupil referral units (PRUs). This is because of the additional impact of the pandemic on these students.

Schools can use the funding to deliver evidence-based approaches for supporting any pupil based on an assessment of individual need.

More information can be found here.