Please click on the link to the right to find out about how we spend our Pupil Premium funding.

Background to Pupil Premium Funding

'Pupil premium is funding to improve education outcomes for disadvantaged pupils in schools in England. Evidence shows that disadvantaged children generally face additional challenges in reaching their potential at school and often do not perform as well as other pupils.'

The Government has used pupils entitled to free school meals (FSM), children in care (CIC), children previously in care (CPIC) and service children as indicators of disadvantage, and have provided a fixed amount of money for schools per pupil, based on the number of pupils registered for FSM over a rolling six year period. This fixed amount of money is expected to increase every year for the course of this current Parliament.  Southfields will be using the indicator of those eligible for FSM as well as identified vulnerable groups as our target children to ‘close the gap’ regarding attainment.

Our Approach

Money has been ring-fenced and used to benefit all pupil premium pupils. We have established clear lines of responsibility with a member of the Senior Leadership Team and a link governor taking responsibility for Pupil Premium.

At Southfields our significant proportions of FSM children have meant that our pupil premium money has been planned carefully to ensure that it has been spent to maximum effect. This has meant making informed decisions about our spending such as:

• Ensuring that spending is directly linked to gaps in attainment;
• Making use of our own data to expand existing interventions;
• Making sure there is at least good teaching in a day to day basis;
• Making use of research when evaluating interventions and considering the implementation of new interventions.

All staff are aware of areas for development in the school in terms of subjects, year groups and they know which children are focus children.

Money is used to benefit all pupil premium children and supports higher, as well as lower ability, children by extending provision on offer.

We have revised our assessment and monitoring systems to support improvement in the quality of teaching and interventions in order to maximise impact. Our team leader system enables us to be more responsive and frequent support such as team teaching, planning, one to one training and CPD.

All members of staff, governors and teaching assistants accept responsibility for ‘disadvantaged’ pupils and are committed to meeting their pastoral, social and academic needs within the school environment. Southfields Primary is committed to ‘Narrowing the Gap’ between vulnerable pupils and the pupil premium forms a vital part of that process. The governors reserve the right to allocate the pupil premium funding to support any pupils or groups of pupils the school has legitimately identified as being socially disadvantaged.

Reporting Pupil Premium

There is a set format from the Department for Education for reporting on Pupil Premium. The School will publish the report online annually, as well as reviewing the previous year's objectives. These reports aim to detail information on how Pupil Premium has been used within our school and the impact that it has had. Regular reports will be presented on the progress of pupils supported by Pupil Premium to the Governors of Southfields Primary School as well as Heads of EYFS, Lower/Middle and Upper school, English and Mathematics Co-ordinators.

Reporting to Parents

Parents will be able to obtain information on the pupil premium via the schools website, as well as at Pupil Progress meeting termly.

Responsibility for reporting

The responsibility for the report will be allocated to key members of staff within the school. Class teachers will be asked to report on the intervention in place for key pupils and the impact that intervention has had which will be summarised by phase leaders, core subject leaders and the SLT who will report directly to the Governing Body.