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Pupil Premium

At Lindfield Primary Academy our vision is for all children to have high aspirations and develop their full potential to allow them to reach their ambitions and develop a life-long love of learning.

The staff and Local Board members of Lindfield Primary Academy are committed to ensuring that provision is made which secures the teaching and learning opportunities that meet the needs of all its pupils, to allow them to reach their potential.

We work to ensure inclusion and equal access for all learners. We recognise that the pupil premium funding is allocated to children in receipt of free school meals and is a means of addressing some of the issues associated with social disadvantage and in particular, diminishing the difference in achievement and attainment. In making appropriate provision for this we also acknowledge that not all pupils in receipt of free school meals are socially disadvantaged. Similarly we also recognise that not all pupils who are socially disadvantaged are registered or qualify for free school meals.

Who is Pupil Premium funding primarily targeted at?

  • Children from low income families who are known to be eligible for free school meals.

  • Children who are, who have been in receipt of free school meals in the last 6 years (ever 6 FSM).

  • Children who have been looked after continuously for more than 6 months.

  • Children whose parents are currently serving in the armed forces.

From April 2014 this funding extended to children who have been adopted, those on special guardianship orders and those children on a residency order.

If you fall into any of these criteria please go to the West Sussex County Council website and complete the online form.

Should you have difficulty with this link or being able to get on-line, please pop in to the front office, where they will happily assist you with this, or alternatively provide a hard copy.

 

Are you eligible for funding?
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Years 2020/21:

We are currently supporting 38 children.

The main barriers to educational achievement which our disadvantaged children face are:

  • A significant number of these children have complex emotional needs.
  • Certain pupils do not have access to the additional opportunities that are needed to provide a rounded education.
  • Certain parents of these children have busy home lives with financial constraints which affect the amount of quality time and resources they can make available to their children.

Currently the grant is being spent in the following ways:

  • Providing PP children with small group and one-to-one quality focus teaching of Maths and Writing.
  • Allocated Teacher Assistant support for specific individual children.
  • Supporting PP children financially to go on academy visits and residential opportunities.
  • Provision of counselling and mindfulness activities.

We plan to measure the impact of all these interventions this year by plotting progress against individual learning/developmental targets and the use of standardised tests.

The academic results of all Key Stage 1 and KS2 pupils, including separate sections on PP children, are published annually by the Department for Education (“Raise on Line”) and are available to all parents. This information will be rigorously used to monitor our progress by diminishing the difference between Pupil Premium children and the remainder of the academy.

The Pupil Premium Coordinator is supported by a Local Board member who has specific responsibility for this very important area and they meet at least once a term to discuss and agree strategy.

Pupil Premium dates

The date of the next Pupil Premium Strategy Meeting is Friday 13th November 2020

The next Pupil Progress Meetings will be held the week of 11 January 2021

The Pupil Premium Review was held on 19 April 2018, you will find results under our Reports

The Locality Pupil Premium Review scheduled for Summer 2020 was postponed due to COVID 19