Service Premium

 

The service premium is extra funding for schools to support children and young people with parents in the armed forces.  Pupils attract the premium if they meet the following criteria:

• one of their parents is serving in the regular armed forces
• they have been registered as a 'service child' in the school census at any point since January 2012
• one of their parents died while serving in the armed forces and the pupil receives a pension under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme (AFCS) or the War Pensions Scheme (WPS)

 

It is important to remember that it is down to the school to determine how the Pupil Premium money is best spent. The conditions of the grant state that, “the grant may be spent by maintained schools for the purposes of the school; that is to say for the educational benefit of pupils registered at that school”.

 

For full information on Service Premium please use the link to the Goverment's website below:

 

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-service-pupil-premium/service-pupil-premium-what-you-need-to-know

 

 

At St Mary's CE Primary School over 38% of pupils in Year R to Year 6 are eligible for Service Premium Funding.  The breakdown of pupils for 2023/24 are:

 

Total Number of Pupils on Roll                                        146

Total Number of Pupils Eligible for Pupil Premium          56

Total Pupil Premium Received                                        £18,760

 

We are using the additional funding for:

• A Service Children Co-ordinator
• Resources for Dandelion Military Children's Club
• Dedicated Safeguarding (DSL) and Senior Leadership Team (SLT) support 
• Targeted teaching support
• 1:1 and small group intervention
• KS1 Phonics Interventions by the Phonics Lead
• Additional lunchtime and breakfast club supervision
• Tracking and assessment of pupil progress
• Literacy Support & Literacy Resources 
• ICT technology
• SENDco dedicated time
• Wider Academic Support
• Behaviour Support & Assessments
• Pastoral and welfare support for Service pupils and families to ensure inclusion

 

NB: Full information can be found in the 2023/24 Pupil Premium Strategy Statement below.

 

 

If your child is from a Service family s/he can join The Dandelion Seeds which aims to support service children and their families.  Please click on the link below for more information.