National statistics show that poverty has a detrimental impact on children’s learning. There is a gap in standards between children from very low income families and all other children. This is a finding based on average statistics: many children from very low income families are high achievers; but many are not.
Schools are provided with public funds, called ‘Pupil Premium’, to reduce the gap in standards . There are no hard and fast rules about how to use the money. Each school makes its own decision based on the unique needs of its pupils; and each school is accountable for the use it makes of the funding. The school must demonstrate that pupil premium funding is having a beneficial impact on learning and raising standards for pupils from very low income/ disadvantaged families.
For children who have gaps in learning Pupil Premium helps us resource the school to reduce these. For our more able children from low income homes we are able to maximise their potential and accelerate their progress. The resources needed for these outcomes varies and our thoughtful use of these means all of our pupils benefit as some of our children come from families where there are many challenges in everyday life but not enough to trigger premium payments.
Please find below details on how funding is allocated at Billingborough Primary School.
