Kilham Church Of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
"Encourage one another and build each other up." (Thessalonians 5.11)
Pupil Premium Funding Information
Free School Meals – If you think that your child may be entitled to free school meals please use the online application
An individual request must be made for each of your children.
However, we would kindly ask you to apply for Free School Meals (even if your child is in KS1) as the school will receive additional pupil premium funding should you be entitled if you are in receipt of one or more of the listed benefits:
- Income Support (IS)
- Income Based Jobseekers Allowance (IBJSA)
- The Guarantee element of State Pension Credit
- An income-related employment and support allowance
- Support under part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
- Child Tax Credit, provided they are not entitled to Working Tax Credit and have an annual income (as assessed by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs) that as of 6 April 2010 does not exceed £16,190
- Working Tax Credit -during the four-week period immediately after your employment ceases, or after you start to work less than 16 hours per week, your children are entitled to free school lunches
- Universal Credit – Please view information on Universal Credit
Pupil Premium is a government funding initiative which aims to ensure that extra money goes to those children who could benefit from it the most. This includes children who have been entitled to free school meals and children who are, or have been at some stage, looked after by the local authority.
Pupil Premium Grant
What is the Pupil Premium Grant?
The Pupil Premium Grant (PPG) was introduced in April 2011 and is allocated to schools to:
- Raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils of all abilities to reach their potential.
- To support children and young people of parents who are in the regular armed forces.
The new allocations for 2018/2019 are:
- Pupils in Reception to Year 6 recorded as Ever 6 FSM (Free School Meals) - £1320.
- Looked-after children (LAC) defined in the Children Act 1989 as one who is in the care of, or provided with accommodation by an English local authority - £2300.
- Pupils in year groups Reception to Year 11 recorded as Ever 6 Service Child or in receipt of a child pension from the Ministry of Defence - £300.
Click below for more information about how the PPG is allocated.
Our PPG for 2019/2020 is £28.360. Click below to see our Pupil Premium Strategy for 2019-2020.
The key barriers to learning for children in receipt of the PPG in our school have been identified as:
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In school barriers |
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Limited speech and language/vocabulary acquisition in EYFS which impacts on learning especially reading. |
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B. |
Whole school approach to reading comprehension, inference, words in context, vocabulary acquisition and teaching approaches to key domains |
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C. |
Challenges with low self esteem and pupils being in a secure place mentally and emotionally. |
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D. |
Lack of regular routines with homework, spellings and PE kit. |
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Lack of access to life, musical and cultural experiences. |
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Limited access to resources to support work at home especially pertinent to Y6 SAT’s revision. |
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A new approach to in school assessment – summative testing used to support TA of pupils progress and outcomes. |
Click on the link below to find out how we plan to spend our PPG to tackle these barriers in our Pupil Premium Strategy Statement
Please see the document below for a summary of the school's strategy in respect of the pupil premium allocation for the current academic year, 2018-19, including:
- The amount of the school’s pupil premium allocation
- A summary of the main barriers to educational achievement faced by eligible pupils of the school
- How the pupil premium allocation is to be spent to address those barriers and the reasons for that approach
- How the school is to measure the impact and effect of its expenditure of the pupil premium allocation
- The date of the school’s next review of its pupil premium strategy