Pupil Premium

Schools receive a payment, or Pupil Premium, for each child who is registered for free school meals (FSM) and those who have been in continuous care for six months or more. Currently, there are no looked after children and no children from service personnel families at Markyate Village School. 

‘Schools, head teachers and teachers will decide how to use the Pupil Premium allocation, as they are best placed to assess what additional provision should be made for individual pupils. It is for schools to decide how the Pupil Premium, allocated to schools per FSM pupil, is spent, since they are best placed to assess what additional provision should be made for the individual pupils within their responsibility.’         

DfE website                                                                            

The pupil premium is additional funding for publicly funded schools in England to raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils and close the gap between them and their peers. 

Examples of how we use funding includes:

• counselling sessions for children,
• support for trips or visits
• extra-curricular activities, including attending sports clubs
• uniform
• extra TA support
• resources e.g. coloured paper and overlays, reading resources, maths equipment including games and sports equipment

We monitor the children’s levels half termly and endeavor to ensure that they are working at Age Related Expectations. If there is an area of concern, we meet with the class teacher and teaching assistant and discuss how we can ‘close the gap’. We also recognise that some of the children are at Age Related Expectations and we, with the class teacher’s input, consider how we can help promote learning and achieve mastery for these children e.g. buying a wider and more challenging range of books and resources.

We recognise that progress can be measured in many ways and personalising the funding to the individual, we believe, gives focused, clear and specific ways forward. This demonstrates that we have a bespoke approach that caters for the individual child and family.

Our all-round-support-approach has helped encourage all our children to attend school everyday and on time. All children achieving 97% or more attendance in school remains a focus within our action plans.