Pupil Premium

Pupil Premium Funding 

"The Premium can act as a focal point as schools plan and put in place the strategies that will help their students succeed" - Sir Kevan Collins

(Education Endowment Foundation)

The Pupil Premium is an allocation of additional funding provided to schools to support specific groups of children who are vulnerable to possible underachievement. These include pupils who are entitled to free school meals (FSM - allocated to pupils who have been registered for free school meals at any point in the last six years, known as ‘Ever 6 FSM’) Looked After Children (LAC) and Armed Forces Services Children (FC) .

The government provides pupil premium funding, which is additional to main school funding, to address the current underlying inequalities between children eligible and their peers by ensuring that funding to tackle disadvantage reaches the pupils who need it most. Schools have the freedom to spend the Pupil Premium in a way they believe will best support the raising of attainment and help overcome barriers to learning for the most vulnerable pupils.

Our Christian vision:

'Our church school community seeks to inspire children and adults to love, learn and flourish together so we may become everything God has created us to be'

 

is at the centre of our drive to ensure that no group of children are disadvantaged due to their gender, ethinic oigin, family income or background and we aim to use this funding to support individual children to reach their potential.  Please click the link to access the Gloucestershire county Council Free School Meals Website:  Gloucestershire County Council Free School Meals Website

Please find below PDF documents of Woodchester Endowed Church of England Primary School's pupil premium strategy for this academic year.

 

Click to Download 2025 2026 Woodchester Pupil Premium Report [pdf 314KB] Click to Download

In order to close barriers, how has pupil premium money been spent?

We work hard to improve the progress and attainment of all our children.  The barriers to learning faced by our pupil premium pupils are the same barriers faced by a large number of pupils and so we have taken a decision to treat all pupils as individuals and access their holistic needs whatever 'group' they belong to.  However, we do consider the progress of all our groups and report specifically regarding pupil premium and non-pupil premium and other significant groups.

Staff have a very clear ideas of each child's individual needs and they try to support them effectively based on tose actual and specific needs.  Our pupil premium has therefore been used to either expand existing initiatives or to fund new strategies.  We have to keep this under review - if we were not making an impact in a specific area then we need to reconsider and refocus the spending..  

To close the gap between pupil premium and non pupil premium cohorts, we focus on the following:

  • Boosting literacy where appropriate
  • Boosting maths where appropriate
  • Improving attendance to maximise opportunities to engage in learning and make progress
  • Providing opportuntitites to raise pupil self esteem and confidence, social skills and positive attitudes
  • Helping pupils to engage positively in learning, including supporting participation in extra curricular activities.