PUPIL PREMIUM AT SIJS
The Pupil Premium is additional funding for publicly funded schools in England. It’s designed to help disadvantaged pupils of all abilities perform better, and close the gap between them and their peers.
Funding
In the 2025-2026 financial year, schools will receive £1,515 for each pupil registered as eligible for free school meals (FSM) at any point in the last 6 years. Additionally, schools will receive £2,630 for any pupil who has been adopted from local authority care, is or has been part of a special guardianship order, or who has had a child arrangements order. It is for schools to decide how the Pupil Premium is spent, as they are best placed to assess what additional provision should be made for the individual pupils at their school.
How to apply
The school can qualify for Pupil Premium for your child if you receive one of the following:
- Universal Credit with an annual net earned income of no more than £7,400.
- Income Support
- Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
- Income-related Employment and Support Allowance
- Support under Part 6 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
- The guarantee element of Pension Credit
- Working Tax Credit run-on (paid for the four weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit)
- Child Tax Credit (with no Working Tax Credit) with an annual income of no more than £16,190
If you feel you are eligible for Pupil Premium funding, please speak to your child’s teacher or make an appointment to see Mrs Watts. Whilst we cannot make an application on your child’s behalf, we will give you all the assistance we can to help you make the application.
How do we use the Pupil Premium grant at SIJS to support pupils?
The national figure for pupils eligible for pupil premium per school is on average 25.7%, our school context is on average that 40% of our children are currently eligible for pupil premium.
At SIJS we have high expectations for all pupils.
Individual needs are identified and a wide range of intervention strategies guided by teachers and run by TA’s, which target learning, social skills, communication and sensory difficulties are put in place and their impact on pupils’ attainment and progress is monitored.
The school continues to recognise the need to maximise every learning opportunity and provides additional learning opportunities for pupils entitled to pupil premium funding by:
- Quality first teaching and targeted intervention across all year groups
- Monitoring attendance and punctuality
- Providing early intervention where appropriate
- Inviting pupils to early morning and after school clubs
- Providing local and national visits and experiences to boost confidence and foster social, emotional well being.
We ensure that the additional support we provide is effective by:
- Looking at the individual needs of each child and identifying actual or potential barriers to learning
- Ensuring communication between staff is highly effective
- Working with other agencies to bring in additional expertise as required
- Providing consistent support for parents / carers to develop their own ability to support their children’s learning across the curriculum
- Targeting intervention according to the needs of individual children, for example targeted one to one tuition with an experienced teacher
- Recognising and building on children’s strengths to further boost confidence
- Monitoring the impact of support
Impact
Our school self-evaluation to date shows that the additional support, opportunities, intervention strategies put in place through the Pupil a positive impact upon children’s emotional, social and behavioural development. This aspect of our whole school self-evaluation will continue in order to judge the effectiveness and value for money of initiatives put in place through the Pupil Premium.
For further details on how we have spent and plan to spend our Pupil Premium funding, please see the reports below: