“Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter or son of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of a mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a great nation” Nelson Mandela
Simon Balle School Pupil Premium Report 2012-2013 Background In April 2010, the Government introduced the Pupil Premium. This additional funding was allocated to children from low-income families who were known to be eligible for Free School Meals in both mainstream and non-mainstream settings and children who had been in Local Authority Care continuously for more than six months. The Government believes that the Pupil Premium, which is additional to main school funding, is the best way to address the current underlying inequalities between children eligible for Free School Meals and their wealthier peers by ensuring that funding to tackle disadvantage reaches the pupils who need it most. For the academic year 2010-11, the school received £488 per eligible pupil; this academic year it has risen to £600 per pupil with the eligibility criteria expanded to include pupils from Service families and pupils who do not currently receive Free School Meals but have done so previously within the past six years. This provision is known as ‘Ever-6’ If you want to find out more about pupil premium, please go to: www.education.gov.uk/schools/pupilsupport/premium If you would like to enquire about your eligibility for free school meals, please go to: www.hertsdirect.org/freeschoolmeals
For the academic year 2012-13, Simon Balle received £61,134 of Pupil Premium funding to raise the attainment of its pupils in public care, its pupils currently receiving Free School Meals and pupils who had received Free School Meals within the past six years ( ‘Ever6’ ). The accounting of how this additional money has been spent is divided into two areas:
Targeted spending, where money has been used to fund specific resources or strategies to promote the learning, engagement or well-being of individual pupils; Disaggregated spending, where the cost of a resource provided for Pupil Premium recipients as well as pupils not receiving this additional funding.
It should also be noted that many benefits of funded activities are not easily quantifiable and that it is rarely possible to identify a comparative outcome resulting from a lack of spending against which to measure the impact of the provision of additional resources.