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Pupil Premium & Sports Premium
What Is Pupil Premium?
Pupil premium is additional funding allocated to all schools in England to support disadvantaged pupils and to support schools to close the gap between them and their peers. This budget includes pupils who are currently entitled to free school meals, have been free school meals in the past six years (FSM ‘Ever 6’), children that are cared for or adopted from care and children whose parents are in the armed forces. It is entirely up to individual schools to decide how the money is spent.
You can find out more about the pupil premium on the GOV.UK website
Pupil Premium Information Flyer
At Brookfield we seek to ensure the effectiveness of our use of the pupil premium. We take a holistic approach to supporting our children and ensure that we get to know the children really well and gain an accurate insight into their strengths and needs and use this to inform us fully of the support they may need to help them overcome any barriers to learning. This would be tailored to their individual needs and would include a range of different support which could include nurture and social and emotional support, academic support in focus areas, enrichment activities to boost confidence and self-esteem. We offer our children a wide range of opportunities and ensure that these are accessible for everyone. We work with families and colleagues to make sure everyone has high aspirations for all pupils. We ensure pupil premium children are well represented and have a voice on our school council and other pupil groups.
When applying to a Sutton school you will be encouraged to complete an application for free school meals. All children eligible for free school meals are also eligible for a government grant of £1480 per child. This money is used by Brookfield Academy for a wide range of purposes as indicated below.
To access the New online Free School Meals/Pupil Premium checking service please click on the following link
Free School Meals Eligibility Checker
Pupil Premium In The 2023 To 2024 Academic Year
As in previous years, schools should continue to use the pupil premium to improve the attainment of pupils. The disproportionately high impact of COVID-19 on the education of disadvantaged pupils has made this more important than ever.
For 2024 to 2025, schools are required to:
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use their pupil premium funding and report on your use of them as a single sum in your strategy statement
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publish a strategy statement - see condition 8 of the conditions of grant
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publish your strategy statement by 31 December 2024
In 2024/25 the school receives £1,480 for every primary-aged pupil registered as eligible for free school meals at any point in the last 6 years.
Looked After Children/Post Looked After Children/ Adopted Pupils Funding
The designated teacher for LAC and for Post LAC children is Mrs Larisa Alikhan.
At Brookfield Primary we are committed to supporting all LAC/Post LAC and adopted children or those with special guardianship in order to help them thrive and develop to their full potential.
We do this through the following:
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Training as appropriate e.g attachment
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Family Development Worker available on request for 1:1 sessions with parents/carers to focus on any difficulties at home, to support family and provide emotional support for adults.
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Raising awareness of specific issues e.g adoption through assemblies and class work.
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Inclusion Leader meeting with class teachers to discuss each child and review as needed.
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Termly monitoring of progress by Senior Leadership Team
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Designated LAC/POST LAC teacher attending training as necessary to ensure up to date with latest legislation and good practice.
Additionally the designated teacher will consider each case individually to access any support that may help a particular child such as Drama Therapy, Nurture, booster groups or after school clubs.
In 2024/25 the school receives £2,570 for every looked after child/adopted child
Pupils with parents in the regular armed forces recorded as 'ever 6 service children
The pupil premium is also used to support pupils with parents in the regular armed forces. Service children aren't considered to be disadvantaged for the purposes of the pupil premium grant, so schools shouldn't track them as part of this group. Instead, they should track them as their own distinct group.
In 2024/25 the school receives £340 for every ‘ever 6 service child’.
EYFS Pupil Premium
The Early Years Pupil Premium provides an extra 68 pence per hour ( up to 570 hours) for three and four year old children whose parents are in receipt of certain benefits or who were formally in local authority care but who left care because they were adopted or were subject to a special guardianship or child arrangements order. The payment to the school is made on a termly basis in arrears.
Pupil Premium Funding For 2024/5
Pupil Premium Strategy 2024-2025
Pupil Premium Strategy 2023-2024
Sports Premium
Our Vision for PE, Sport and Physical Activities
Our vision for school PE, Sport and physical activities is to ensure that we promote and support the importance of a healthy lifestyle and place particular emphasis on the wellbeing of our pupils and how this impacts positively on all aspects of school life. All our work will be aimed at increasing attainment, participation, improving confidence and skills and encouraging a life-long love of sport and physical activities together with an understanding of the health benefits that participation offers.
Sports Grant
The Sports Grant is additional government funding paid to schools to improve provision of Physical Education (PE) and sport in primary schools. Schools must spend the additional funding on improving their provision of PE and sport, but schools have been given the freedom to choose how they do this. A list of possible uses has been suggested. Possible uses for the funding include:
- hiring specialist PE teachers or qualified sports coaches to work alongside primary teachers when teaching PE
- paying for professional development opportunities in PE/sport/ dance
- providing cover to release primary teachers for professional development in PE/sport
- buying quality assured professional development modules or materials for PE/sport
- Providing places for pupils on after school sport clubs and holiday clubs
Sports Premium Funding 2023-2024
