Pupil Premium
The pupil premium grant is funding given by the government, to improve educational outcomes for disadvantaged pupils in state-funded schools in England. Priory School maps out the focus for this spending, using research evidence to identify strategies that will have the most impact on outcomes for our children.
The staff of Priory, across the course of this year, alongside our wider school community, will look at our whole school plan in order to effectively provide excellent and inspirational opportunities for all of our children.
Statement of Intent
The context of our school is important when making decisions about our Pupil Premium Strategy and consideration is also given to the research from the Education Endowment Fund (EEF) when making decisions about strategies to implement.
We recognise that there are several common barriers to learning for our disadvantaged children. These include poor language and communication skills, a gap in attainment, attendance, lack of self confidence and resilience and fewer enrichment opportunities at home. The challenges our pupils face are varied and there is no ‘one size fits all’.
Our ultimate objectives are:
✓ To support our pupils’ mental health and well-being to enable them to access learning at an appropriate level and achieve success.
✓ To narrow the attainment gap between our disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged pupils.
✓ To encourage and enable parents to support their child's learning journey.
✓ To improve attendance.
✓ To ensure that our disadvantaged pupils have access to a range of opportunities to develop their cultural capital..
Priory Infant School aims to do this by:
✓ Ensuring our teaching and learning opportunities meet the needs of all our pupils.
✓ Ensuring we provide appropriate provision for our vulnerable pupils through assessment and intervention
✓ Allocating Pupil Premium funding to support pupils or groups of pupils the school has identified are in need, as we recognise that not all pupils who are socially disadvantaged will necessarily be in receipt of funding.
We aim to achieve these objectives through a range of provision including, but not exclusive to:
✓ Ensuring all teaching is good or better thus ensuring all children receive quality first teaching
✓ Increase the number of children who have access to high quality catch up teaching
✓ Develop support for children and families to address social and emotional issues that impact on learning and assist parents in supporting their child's learning
✓ Increase opportunities for children to access an exciting curriculum, extra curriculum activities and cultural opportunities that impact on engagement, attendance and develop their cultural capital.
Please scroll below for our detailed Pupil Premium Strategy Plan
pp strategy 2025 2028 updated october 2025 .pdf
