Pupil Premium
The Pupil Premium is a specific amount of funding that forms part of our annual school budget. The purpose of the Pupil Premium is explained on the Department for Education website as follows:
- The Government believes that the Pupil Premium, which is additional to main school funding, is the best way to address the current underlying inequalities between children eligible for free school meals (FSM) and their wealthier peers by ensuring that funding to tackle disadvantage reaches the pupils who need it most.
- In most cases the Pupil Premium is allocated to schools and is clearly identifiable. It is for schools to decide how the Pupil Premium, allocated to school 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.
Sports Premium Funding
What is Sports Premium?
Each year Calton receive a Sports Premium allocation that we use to support the children in becoming more active. This money helps provide more opportunities for physical activity. We spend this on replacing and adding to our equipment, provide opportunities to experience different sports and activities from our external partners and developing experiences of play and also PE.
Schools must use the funding to make additional and sustainable improvements to the quality of physical education (PE), physical activity and sport you offer.
This means that the premium should be used to:
- develop or add to the PE, physical activity and sport activities that school already offers
- build capacity and capability within the school to ensure that improvements made now will benefit pupils joining the school in future years