Pupil and Sports Premium

Pupil Premium

The Pupil Premium has one central aim: to raise the educational outcomes of disadvantaged pupils. In doing this, it also supports the Education Endownment Foundation (EEF) mission' to close the wide and persistent gap in achievement that separates children who grow up in poverty from their more affluent peers.

These gaps affect more than education and employment outcomes. Higher achievement is also tied to better health and well-being throughout our lives beyond education.

As a school, we use the proven research from the EEF to support our holistic and analytical apprach to how we spend the fund to target the most precise support to each individual vulnerable learner. 

Following the support and guideance fro the EEF we work in the following way;

1. Diagnose pupils needs

2. Use research to support the stratergy

3. Develop stratergy

4. Deliver and monitor

5. Evaluate and sustain

Our approach aims to support the clear evidence within the EEF's work and focuses on three main aspects;

A tiered approach to spending

Funding criteria

Pupil premium funding is allocated to eligible schools based on the number of:

• pupils who are recorded as eligible for free school meals (FSM) or have been recorded as eligible in the past 6 years (referred to as Ever 6 FSM)
• children previously looked after by a local authority or other state care, including children adopted from state care or equivalent from outside England and Wales

Pupil premium is not a personal budget for individual pupils, and schools do not have to spend pupil premium so that it solely benefits pupils who meet the funding criteria. It can be used:

• to support other pupils with identified needs, such as those who have or have had a social worker, or who act as a carer
• for whole class interventions which will also benefit non-disadvantaged pupils

Pupil premium funding is allocated to local authorities based on the number of:

• looked-after children, supported by the local authority
• pupils who meet any of the eligibility criteria and who attend an independent setting, where the local authority pays full tuition fees

For pupils who are looked-after children, funding should be managed by the local authority’s virtual school head (VSH)  in consultation with the child’s school. We working closely with Hertfrodshire's Virtual School (and other authority virtual schools where appropriate). https://www.hertfordshire.gov.uk/microsites/virtual-school/hertfordshire-virtual-school.aspx 

Current Pupil Premium Stratergy and Spending Review 

PPG Review 2024.25

PPG Stratergy 2025 - 2028

Historic reports

Pupil Premium Report 2022 - 2025

Pupil Premium Strategy Statement

PPG 2022

Pupil Premium Expenditure 2021.22

Pupil Premium Expenditure 2020.21

Pupil Premium Expenditure 2019.20

Pupil Premium Expenditure 2018.19

Pupil Premium changes, September 2026

From the start of the 2026 to 2027 academic year, the Department for Education (DfE) is delivering an expansion to FSM eligibility to include all pupils from households in receipt of Universal Credit. There will then be 2 categories of FSM:

• Targeted FSM, which continues to be based on the existing £7,400 income threshold
• Expanded FSM, which will apply to meals only, covering pupils who do not qualify for Targeted FSM, but who are in households in receipt of Universal Credit

Following the expansion of FSM, only pupils eligible for Targeted FSM will be part of the Ever 6 FSM cohort. This means that pupils who become eligible for FSM for the first time through the new Expanded FSM category will not attract pupil premium funding.

Pupils who were eligible for FSM before the expansion will continue to be part of the Ever 6 FSM cohort after the expansion. That includes any pupil whose household income increases after the expansion, such that they either lose FSM eligibility altogether or become eligible for FSM through Expanded FSM. Such pupils will remain part of the Ever 6 FSM cohort for 6 years.

Funding will also increase from September 2026 as follows;

• Pupils who are eligible for FSM, or have been eligible in the past 6 years - £1550
• Pupils previously looked after by a local authority or other state care - £2690
• Children who are looked after by the local authority - £2690

Sports Premium

From September 2013, the Government allocated funding directly to primary schools to support the provision of quality PE/Sport. Schools must use the funding to make additional and sustainable improvements to the quality of PE and sport they offer. This means they should use the Sports Premium to:

• Develop or add to the PE and sports activities of 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.

There are five key indicators that schools should expect to see improvement across:

• The engagement of all pupils in regular physical activity – the Chief Medical Officer guidelines recommend that all children and young people aged 5 to 18 engage in at least 60 minutes of physical activity a day, of which 30 minutes should be in school
• The profile of PE and sport is raised across the school as a tool for whole-school improvement
• Increased confidence, knowledge and skills of all staff in teaching PE and sport
• Broader experience of a range of sports and activities offered to all pupils
• Increased participation in competitive sport

Click to view reports

PE Funding Evaluation Form

Swimming