Pupil Premium Funding Information and Report
What is the Pupil Premium?
The Pupil Premium Grant is additional funding given to schools so they can support their disadvantaged children and close the attainment gap between them and their peers. At Nightingale we are focussed on using this funding to target the attainment of all vulnerable groups of children whether they are eligible for pupil premium funding or not. It is our belief that through carefully targeted interventions that attainment of all pupils can be raised, while narrowing the gap in performance between disadvantaged pupils and their peers.
The Pupil Premium was introduced by the Government in April 2011. The Pupil Premium is funding provided to schools is additional to main school funding. Pupil Premium was designed to give additional money to support schools in raising the attainment of children who are eligible for free school meals (FSM) and those children are in local authority care. These groups of children have been identified nationally as achieving at a lower level than children from less disadvantaged backgrounds.
Where does the money come from?
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The grant for pupils eligible (or ever eligible) for Free School Meals is £1,480 per pupil.
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For Looked After Children (or those adopted from care or under special guardianship / residence / child arrangements orders), the premium is £2,630 per pupil.
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Children of service personnel receive £350 per pupil.