Pupil Premium
Pupil premium is funding to improve education outcomes for disadvantaged children
Government information can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium/pupil-premium
Are you eligible?
- You can register your child for Free School Meals if you receive any of these benefits:
- Universal Credit (provided you have an annual net earned income of no more than £7,400, as assessed by earnings from up to three of your most recent assessment periods)
- Income Support
- Income-based Jobseeker's Allowance
- Income-related Employment and Support Allowance
- Support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
- The Guarantee element of State Pension Credit
- Child Tax Credit, provided you are not entitled to Working Tax Credit and have an annual income (as assessed by HM Revenue & Customs) that does not exceed £16,190
- Working Tax Credit 'run-on' - the payment someone may receive for a further four weeks after they stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit
Please note you are not eligible if you are in receipt of Working Tax Credit.
You can also check if you are eligible for free school meals using the link below:
https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/info/20014/schools_and_learning/687/how_to_claim_free_school_meals
Our office staff are available to support your application should you require.
Currently, children in Reception, Years 1 and 2 all receive free school meals, these are paid by government funding. This provision is called Universal Free School Meals or UFSM, and is a different form of funding to pupil premium. If your child is in reception, Year 1 or Year 2 and you are eligible for free school meals funding you can still apply.
How do we use pupil premium funding?
The Pupil Premium is allocated to children from low-income families who are currently known to be eligible for free school meals (FSM) in both mainstream and non-mainstream settings and children who have been looked after continuously for more than six months.
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.
In most cases the Pupil Premium is allocated to schools and is clearly identifiable. It is for schools to decide how the Pupil Premium, allocated to schools per FSM pupil, is spent, since they are best placed to assess what additional provision should be made for the individual pupils within their responsibility.
School receive £1,455 per pupil in receipt of pupil premium funding. This additional funding allows us to provide an even better education for your child through the purchase of additional resources, staff to support, reduced costs to educational visits or residential, attendance support strategies and after school clubs.
Mrs Bradbury our Deputy Headteacher ensures that our use of pupil premium is in line with the Government guidance and uses data analysis, school improvement priorities and pupil progress information to ensure that strategies we use are relevant and evidenced based to give our disadvantaged children the best educational experiences and enhance their academic outcomes and progress.
Each year we are required to produce a pupil premium strategy by 31st December to demonstrate how we are utilising the allocated pupil premium funding to support our disadvantaged children, and the impact this has upon children’s outcomes and progress.
School contact details:
School office: 0121 464 9228
Pupil Premium Leader: Mrs Bradbury, Deputy Headteacher and SENCO, Welford Primary School, Handsworth, Birmingham B20 2BL. 0121 464 9228 enquiries@welford.bham.sch.uk
If you would like to view Welford Primary School's Pupil Premium Strategy Statement 2024 - 2025,
please click here.
If you would like to view the 2023-2024 Welford Primary School's Pupil Premium Strategy Statement,
please click here.
