Pupil Premium
Aims
Turnfurlong Junior school is committed to ensuring that all pupils achieve the very best outcomes in terms of their academic and personal development alongside providing a rich and varied experience that develops life chances for children. Diminishing the difference in attainment and progress is key for all children; but with particular focus on children identified as Pupil Premium or disadvantaged.
Pupil Premium funding is allocated to schools based on the number of children eligible for free school meals at any point in the last six years and children in care or left care through adoption or another formal route. The school also receives a grant for pupils whose parents currently serve in the armed forces. 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. It is expected that this funding is used to help and support these pupils and to ensure they make good progress.
Provision
No one child is the same and thus this is reflected in the wide variety of ways pupil premium is utilised. The provision provided encompasses both direct approaches to ‘narrowing the gap’ and other more creative interventions, which subsequently influence academic achievement and very importantly enhance their social and emotional well-being. We believe that pupil premium should be used to impact the wider school but it is also pertinent that the pupil premium is specifically tailored to meet the needs of individual pupil premium pupils, in addition to and in different ways from our other intervention programmes. Interventions for each pupil are decided on an individual, needs-led basis thus enabling the children to benefit from more than one intervention which are directly matched to their needs.
Pupil Premium funding is allocated to schools based on the number of children eligible for free school meals. 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. It is expected that this funding is used to help and support these pupils and to ensure they make good progress.
Free school meals including Pupil Premium are available to pupils in years 3 and above whose parents receive certain benefits.
Please click the link below if you think you may qualify.
2022-2023 Pupil Premium
The school is receiving £60,740 for 2022-2023 for provision to support 44 pupils. Please see the link below for this year's Pupil Premium Strategy. This will be reviewed in December 2023.
2021-2022 Pupil Premium
The school is receiving £63,425 for 2021-2022 for provision to support 46 pupils. Please see the link below for this year's Pupil Premium Strategy. This will be reviewed in July 2021.
The school is receiving £47,625 for 2020-2021 for provision to support 34 pupils. Please see the link below for this year's Pupil Premium Strategy. This will be reviewed in July 2021.
The school received £47,660 for 2019-2020 for provision to support 37 pupils. Additional provision for these pupils is based on individual needs.