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Premium Allocations

Pupil Premium

The Pupil Premium is allocated funding for children from disadvantaged families who were eligible for free school meals, looked after children and those from families with parents in the Armed Forces.

You can view or download our Pupil  Premium allocation and find out how this has been used at our school.

PP Strategy 2024-2027

Catch-up Premium

In June 2020 the government announced £1 billion of funding to support children and young people to catch up on missed learning caused by coronavirus (COVID19). This is especially important for the most vulnerable pupils and pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds who we know have been most affected.

You can view or download our Catch-up Premium allocation and find out how this has been used at our school.

Catch up Premium Impact

PE and Sport Premium

The PE and Sport Premium allocations for the academic year 2022 to 2023 are calculated using the number of pupils in years 1 to 6, as recorded in the October 2022 census, as follows:

  • schools with 17 or more pupils receive £16,000 plus £10 per pupil
  • schools with 16 or fewer pupils receive £1000 per pupil

It is expected that schools will see an improvement against the following 5 key indicators:

  1. The engagement of all pupils in regular physical activity – the Chief Medical Officer guidelines recommend that all children and young people aged 5 to 18 engage in at least 60 minutes of physical activity a day, of which 30 minutes should be in school.
  2. The profile of PE and sport being raised across the school as a tool for whole school improvement.
  3. Increased confidence, knowledge and skills of all staff in teaching PE and sport.
  4. Broader experience of a range of sport and activities offered to all pupils.
  5. Increased participation in competitive sport.

This funding is being jointly provided by the Departments for Education, Health and Culture, Media and Sport, and will see money going directly to primary school headteachers to spend on improving the quality of sport and PE for their children.  The sport funding can only be spent on sport and PE provision for schools.  The premium must be used to fund additional and sustainable improvements to the provision of PE and sport, for the benefit of primary-aged pupils, in the 2022 – to 2023 academic year, to encourage the development of healthy, active lifestyles.

Sports funding and spending CONTEXT 2024-25
Sports funding and spending IMPACT 2023-24

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South View
Kirk Merrington
Spennymoor
DL16 7JB
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