What is Pupil Premium?

The Pupil Premium is funding provided to schools which is additional to main school funding. Publicly-funded schools in England get extra funding from the government to help them improve the attainment of their disadvantaged pupils. The pupil premium grant is designed to allow schools to help disadvantaged pupils by improving their progress and the results they achieve.

Schools get pupil premium funding based on the number of pupils they have in January each year from the following groups:

Free school meals

Schools get £1,480 for every primary age pupil, or £955 for every secondary age pupil, who claims free school meals, or who has claimed free school meals in the last 6 years.

Looked-after and previously looked-after children

Schools get £2,570 for every pupil who has left local authority care through adoption, a special guardianship order or child arrangements order.

Local authorities get the same amount for each child they are looking after; they must work with the school to decide how the money is used to support the child’s Personal Education Plan.

Service premium

The service premium is not part of the pupil premium as the rules to attract the service premium are different.

Schools get £340 for every pupil with a parent who:

• is serving in HM Forces
• has retired on a pension from the Ministry of Defence

This funding is to help with pastoral support.

How is the funding used?

It is for schools to decide how the Pupil Premium is spent, since they are best placed to assess what additional provision should be made for the individual pupils within their responsibility. However, schools are to be held accountable for how they have used the additional funding to improve educational attainment and support pupils from less privileged backgrounds.

At Wildridings Primary School, we ensure that teaching and learning opportunities meet the needs of all pupils. We ensure that appropriate provision is made for pupils who belong to vulnerable groups; this includes ensuring that the needs of socially disadvantaged pupils are specifically assessed and addressed. In considering provision for socially disadvantaged pupils, we recognise that not all pupils eligible for FSM will be socially disadvantaged. We also recognise that not all pupils who are socially disadvantaged are eligible for free school meals.

Please click on the buttons above to view our Pupil Premium Reports. They include information regarding how the Pupil Premium was spent in the last academic year, the impact of this funding and the plans for future spending.

The PPG Strategy Review document will be updated by 31 December 2025