Pupil Premium and Grant Funding

Pupil Premium

Is your child eligible for free school meals?

If your child is eligible for free school meals, and you claim for them, your child’s academy receives extra funding called ‘pupil premium’.Pupil premium is funding from the government that is given to academies to help students to reach their full potential, regardless of their background or financial situation.

Academies receive £1,455 for primary students and £1,035 for secondary students who are registered for free school meals. The funding must be used by the academy to enhance the individual learning of the qualifying student, and can be used in many ways including:

  • Extra one-to-one or small group support within classrooms
  • Employing extra teaching assistants to work within classes
  • Running targeted intervention sessions for those who need extra help
  • Providing breakfast
  • Providing extra tuition in Numeracy and Literacy
  • Providing music enrichment for families who cannot pay for them
  • Investing in resources that support individual learning

Students who are registered for free school meals do not have to eat them and cannot be identified as being registered for free school meals in anyway within the academy. However, the academy cannot claim the extra funding unless the student is registered.

Your child might be eligible for free school meals, and therefore pupil premium funding for the academy, if you access:

  • Income Support
  • Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
  • Income-related Employment and Support Allowance
  • Support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
  • The guaranteed element of Pension Credit
  • Child Tax Credit (provided you’re not also entitled to Working Tax Credit and have an annual gross income of no more than £16,190)
  • Working Tax Credit run-on – paid for 4 weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit
  • Universal Credit – your household income must be less than £7,400 a year (after tax and not including any benefits you get)

Children who get paid these benefits directly, instead of through a parent or guardian, can also get free school meals.

For further information click the link below:

https://www.togetherforchildren.org.uk/article/21204/Free-School-Meals

To register your child for free school meals use the application form below, to ensure the academy receives the relevant funding it is entitled to. Academy staff are happy to support with any applications. Applications must be made as soon as possible, and ideally by 21 September 2024.

Family Portal – Sign in (sunderland.gov.uk)

Pupils Premium and Grant Funding

The statements below detail our school’s use of pupil premium (and recovery premium) funding to help improve the attainment of our disadvantaged pupils.

It outlines our pupil premium strategy, how we intend to spend the funding in this academic year and the effect that last year’s spending of pupil premium had within our school.

Pupil Premium Statement 2022-25 (Reviewed December 2023)

Pupil Premium Statement 2022-2025 Reviewed December 2023

Pupil Premium Statement 2021-24 (Reviewed December 2022)

Pupil Premium Statement 2021-2024 Reviewed December 2022

St Aidan’s Pupil Premium Summary

Pupil Premium Statement 2020-21

Pupil Premium Statement 2020-21

Pupil Premium Strategy 2020-2021 + Review 2019-20

Pupil Premium Spending Strategy 2020-21

Covid Catch Up Premium 2020-21

Pupil Premium Statement 2019-20

Pupil Premium Statement – 2019-20

Premium Statement 2018-19

Pupil Premium Statement – 2018-19

Pupil Premium Strategy 2018-19 and Review

Y7 Catch Up Funding 2018-19 and Review 2017-18

Year 7 Catch Up Impact Statement 2018-19

16-19 Tuition Funding 2021-22

16-19 tuition fund 21-22

16-19 Funding Statement 2021-22

16-19 Tuition Funding 2020-21

Sixth Form Funding Statement 2019-20

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