Pupil & Sports Premium

At Totnes St John's Primary School we have high aspirations and ambitions for all of our children and we believe that no child should be left behind. We are determined to ensure that all of our children are given every chance to realise their full potential. 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 peers by ensuring that funding to tackle disadvantage reaches the pupils who need it most. 

 

Pupil Premium is allocated to pupils in school year groups from Reception to Year 11 from low income families who are registered for free school meals (FSM) or who have been registered for FSM at any point in the last six years (known as ‘Ever 6’), together with children that have been in care continuously for 6 months or more.

 

It is for schools to decide how the Pupil Premium is spent, since they are best placed to assess what additional provision should be made for the individual pupils within their responsibility. However, all schools will be held accountable for how they have used the additional funding to support pupils from low income families. Schools are required to publish a Pupil Premium Strategy (see below). This will ensure that parents are fully informed about the amount of allocation, barriers faced by eligible pupils, how the funding is to be spent, how impact will be measured and the date the strategy will be reviewed. We also need to include how the allocation was spent for the previous year and its impact on eligible and other pupils. Our key objective in using the Pupil Premium Grant is to diminish the differences between all pupil groups within Totnes St John's Primary School. We closely monitor how we are spending the allocated funds to ensure they are having an impact on pupil premium pupil’s achievement.

 

All children in receipt of these funds are also entitled (though do not have to take) free school dinners. Please see our School Lunches page for more information and how to apply.

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Service Pupil Premium

Some pupils may attract the Service Pupil Premium.  This is for pupils who have a parent serving in the armed services. Unlike the Pupil Premium, this grant is mainly for providing additional pastoral support. Pupils with a parent currently serving in the armed services and supporting their family, pupils who have a parent who died in action and those whose parents have left the service since April 2011 for other reasons, including injury are all eligible. To be eligible, the parent must be supporting their family, so where they are separated or divorced, a pupil will not be eligible.