Pupil Premium

What is Pupil Premium?

Pupil Premium is additional money that every school receives for children who are on low-income families (that are eligible for  Free School Meals), for children who have been adopted or are in care, and for children who reside with a parent that is in the Armed Services.

At St. Matthew's it will be used to raise the attainment for all pupils. We support the seven building blocks for interventions which are;

• A whole school ethos of attainment for all
• A whole-school approach that addresses behaviour and attendance
• Promote high-quality teaching for all
• Identify and support individual learning needs
• Deploy staff effectively
• Respond proactively to data
• Clear, responsive leadership

How much funding does a school receive?

Each school receives £1515 for FSM children, £2,630 for children who are looked after. 

For the year 2025-26 St Matthew's will receive £95,385

For the year 2024-25 St. Matthew's received £105,920

For the year 2023-24 St. Matthew's received £112,765

For the year 2021-22 St. Matthew's received £98,241

For the year 2020-21 St. Matthew's received £64, 870

What does a school do with the money?

Pupil Premium money helps us to ensure that no child is disadvantaged. We carefully base our spending on the needs of all our children and use the Pupil Premium money to close attainment gaps as well as supporting the social and emotional well-being of our children.

At St Matthew's the Pupil Premium funding will support us to:

• ensure professional development enables all staff to meet the needs of the children.
• deploy teaching and support staff to provide specific support and intervention work
• provide specialist teaching
• provide financial support and/or subsidise activities, events and clubs
• improve resources with a particular focus on reading
• improve the resources pupils can access at home eg Read Write Inc, TimesTablesRockStars, Arithmagicians
• provide specific interventions such as phonics, Precision teaching and ELSA (Emotional Literacy support)
• offer curriculum enrichment activities, such as subsidising the Y6 residential and other trips 

Pupil Premium Lead: Charlotte Bowern

Pupil Premium Governor: William Noble