The Government provides funds to schools to help children from families with lower income, or in challenging situations. This funding is called Pupil Premium.
Pupil Premium is additional to main school funding; evidence suggests that this is the best way to address the current underlying inequalities between children by ensuring that funding to tackle disadvantaged pupils reaches the children who need it the most.
Schools 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. Schools are held accountable for how they have used the additional funding to support children from disadvantaged families: read more on the Department for Education website.
For the current academic year, Whiteknights Primary School will receive £115,440 to support disadvantaged pupils.
We spend our finances on initiatives which give pupils the best possible chance to make good progress at school. The money is supporting booster classes, before and after school clubs, school visits (including residential trips), swimming, holiday activities for vulnerable families and ensuring that Learning Support Assistants (LSAs) are on hand in every class to support learning. We review our strategy for using the pupil premium funding at the beginning of each academic year.
Early Years Pupil Premium (EYPP) is an additional sum of money paid to schools for children of families in receipt of certain benefits. Early Years Pupil Premium children may also be eligible for free school meals if they are attending Nursery for a full day.We spend our EYPP finances on initiatives that give pupils the best possible chance to make a good start in Nursery.
Your child will be eligible EYPP if you are in receipt of one of the following benefits:
Working Tax Credit run-on, which is paid for 4 weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit
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)
Your child will also be eligible is they have:
Have been looked after by the local authority for 1 day or more
Have been adopted
Left care under a special guardianship or residence order.
If your child is eligible, they will remain so until they finish Nursery. When they start school, you may apply for Pupil Premium (PP).
If you believe that your child/ren may qualify for EYPP, we would be grateful if you could complete the form below, which will allow us to check eligibility. Completion of this form is voluntary. Wokingham Borough Council will confirm whether your child is eligible for the funding, but will not notify us of which benefits you are receiving. Providing your details will not affect any of the welfare benefits you may be entitled to.
Please provide the information of the main benefit holder using the information you supply to DWP & HMRC, so there are no delays in checking your eligibility status.
Pupil Premium (PP) is an additional sum of money paid to schools for children of families in receipt of certain benefits. We spend our PP finances on initiatives that give pupils the best possible chance to make good progress in school. Pupil Premium children are also eligible for free school meals. Although every child receives free school meals when they start school in Reception until they finish Year 2, once they start Year 3 only children that qualify for Pupil Premium will receive free school meals. Healthy school food can help pupils establish healthy habits for life and can also improve their readiness to learn.
To be eligible you must receive one of the following:
Working Tax Credit run-on, which is paid for 4 weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit
Your child will also be eligible if they have been:
Looked after by the local authority for 1 day or more
Adopted
Under a special guardianship or residence order
If you believe that your child/ren may qualify for PP, we would be grateful if you could complete the form below, which will allow us to check eligibility. Completion of this form is voluntary. Wokingham Borough Council will confirm whether your child is eligible for the funding, but will not notify us of which benefits you are receiving. Providing your details will not affect any of the welfare benefits you may be entitled to.
Please provide the information of the main benefit holder using the information you supply to DWP & HMRC, so there are no delays in checking your eligibility status.
If you have any questions about the Pupil Premium or about Free School Meals (FSM) and whether your child is eligible, please use the Contact Us page or ask in the school office.
