Pupil Premium
What is Pupil Premium?
Pupil premium is additional funding for state-funded schools in England to help raise the educational outcomes of disadvantaged 5- to 16-year-olds. We know that disadvantaged pupils, on average, achieve worse educational outcomes due to the additional challenges they face. Pupil premium supports the aim of narrowing the gap between the attainment of disadvantaged pupils and their peers.
Schools should use their pupil premium to address the specific challenges their disadvantaged pupils face, through:
- high-quality teaching
- targeted academic support
- wider strategies to help pupils to attend, belong and succeed
Pupil Premium Eligibility
Eligibility primarily includes pupils registered for Free School Meals (FSM) at any point in the last six years, looked-after children, and those with parents in the armed forces.
Your child may qualify for free school meals if you have any of these incomes:
- Income Support
- Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
- Income-related Employment and Support Allowance
- The guaranteed part of Pension Credit
- Child Tax Credit (as long as your annual gross income is £16,190 or less and you don’t get Working Tax Credit)
- Working Tax Credit run-off after you come off Working Tax Credit
- Universal Credit you applied for on or after 1 April 2018. As long as your household income is less than £7,400 a year after tax, not including any benefits
Children who receive these benefits themselves, instead of through a parent or guardian, can also qualify for free school meals.
Your child may qualify if you are an asylum seeker.
To check if your child/ward is eligible, click here for more information.
Pupil Premium at Altrincham College
At Altrincham College our vision is to nurture well-rounded citizens of the future who are knowledgeable, happy and resilient so that they make a valuable contribution to the world in which they live and are empowered to make informed and positive life choices. The Pupil Premium strategy is intended to support our disadvantaged students in achieving these goals.
At Altrincham College we take a ‘disadvantaged first’ approach that permeates every area of school and school life:
- Curriculum and teaching
- Attendance and behaviour
- Achievement
- Inclusion
- Parental, professional and community engagement
“What we do, we do with the disadvantaged pupils in mind first.”
Pupil Premium Strategy
This document details Altrincham College’s use of pupil premium funding to positively improve outcomes for our disadvantaged students. It outlines our pupil premium strategy, how we intend to spend the funding in this academic year and the effect that last year’s spending of pupil premium had within our school.
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