Sentences with phrase «years pupil premium»

We could use the early years pupil premium much better.

The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) welcomed today's Government response to the early years pupil premium consultation and confirmed it will be...

«We have already made great strides in early - years provision with the introduction of the new early - years pupil premium, strengthened early - years qualifications and encouraging schools to open from 8 am to 6 pm.»

Mulholland said the government had also missed an opportunity by not raising the early years pupil premium to the same level as for primary school pupils, adding: «This is something NAHT has been consistently lobbying for, given the importance of early years in laying the foundations for education.»

Not exact matches

Pupil Premium Grant (PPG) Revision of the premium grant expands this allocation to include not only pupils currently on FSM but all pupils who have been eligible for FSM within the last six years and registered at our school.

The pupil premium is estimated to cost # 2.5 bn per year, and the CTF would have costed # 580m.

Every parent paying # 30,000 per year at Eton would be contributing # 6000 to the pupil premium, still leaving a hefty # 24,000 to be spent on the best schooling that money can buy.

It could raise # 1.5 billion per year for the pupil premium — and would also help to stop the funding gap between state and private schools widening sharply, and setting social mobility back.

In 66 areas, the gap was larger than it was two years previously, before the pupil premium was introduced.

The government's # 7bn investment in the early years, in a pupil premium, and in more help getting poorer students into higher education does not blip at all on the radar.

The pupil premium is now # 1,300 per year for pupils in primary school and # 935 per pupil in secondary school.

Two years ago, I had no support in class although I had several pupil premium pupils.

«My year group has the largest number of pupil premium pupils but has less support than other year groups and this isn't the first time this has happened.

The pupil premium of # 600 a year is widely seen as a cornerstone of the coalition's education policy in England.

Extending the pupil premium — extra money given to schools for disadvantaged children — to three and four - year - olds will help, but is not enough.

When Clegg has taken up whichever international job it is that he's meant to want and Alexander is running some ghastly lobbying firm in London, no one will much remember «Alarm Clock Britain», the pupil premium (much less its origin) or any other measure that excites the true believers for a few days but they will remember their years of under - employment and unemployment, the lies about tuition fees, the first time they saw ads for private provision in the NHS and, first and foremost, that they should never trust the Liberal Democrats again.

So we'll invest in the early years, help put troubled families back on track, use a pupil premium to make sure kids from the poorest homes go to the best schools not the worst, recognise marriage in the tax system and, most of all, make sure that work really pays for every single person in our country

Investment would go into early years support, getting troubled families «back on track», pupil premiums for poorer children and recognition for marriage in the tax system, he said.

By 2014/15 the government will be spending # 2.5 bn on the premium, but I would personally like to see funding in the next parliament grow towards # 5bn per year, to cover more pupils and to ensure that schools have the resources to match the very tough challenges.

• Sarah Teacher, the education minister, has announced that the pupil premium will double next year, rising to # 1.25 bn.

The pupil premium started at # 430 per pupil per year in 2010 - 11 (approximately # 450 in 2009 prices) and rose to # 1,300 in 2014 - 15 (approximately # 1,150 in 2009 prices).

For the academic year 2017 to 2018, most schools with primary - age pupils receive the premium.

From September 2018, schools and colleges will receive an extra # 600 premium for each additional pupil taking the one - year AS maths or the Core Maths qualification.

Over the next three years, schools face a cut in their main budget on the one hand, and an increase in their pupil premium funding on the other.

One in three senior leaders (34 per cent) say the pupil premium is being used to plug gaps in their budget, an increase of 30 per cent from last year.

To overcome the financial barriers we have a range of strategies: we advertise our trips three years in advance along with our suggestions as to the most beneficial (language trips, outdoor education trips and trips linked specifically to their GCSEs) so that parents can prioritise accordingly; we reduce the costs for pupil premium students by using the additional money given to us by the government; we are flexible with payment plans; we allow in - school fundraising for certain trips; and we keep supplemental costs (for example kit and transport) very low by doing our own fundraising for those items.

This information must also include details of how the school spent the pupil premium funding in the last academic year, and how it made a difference to the attainment of disadvantaged pupils.

Pupil premium funding is allocated for each financial year, but the information you publish online should refer to the academic year, as this is how parents understand the school system.

«We are making funding fairer by consulting on proposals for a new national funding formula so that areas with the highest need attract the most funding and we are continuing the pupil premium — worth # 2.5 billion this year — giving schools significant extra funding to raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils.»

The school has also appointed a pupil premium intervention assistant who has regular mentoring slots focusing on academic work and barriers to learning — making sure, for example, that each year 11 student has a revision timetable in place.

This means children who have been entitled to free school meals, and therefore the pupil premium grant, in the past six years are considered before remaining places are awarded.

After all, times are lean and there is money at stake - # 430 a year goes to the school for every student on free school meals that it takes under the newly introduced «pupil premium».

The percentage of pupil premium students with the «magic five» GCSEs has lifted from 40 per cent in 2012 to more than 70 per cent last year.

Mr O'Regan, headteacher at Alder High for three - and - a-half years, has been using some of the pupil premium money on a programme called Food for Thought.

This may be eligibility at the time of application or the broader «pupil premium», which includes children who were eligible for free meals at any point in the past six years.

«We took all year 11 on a GCSE boot camp where we used the pupil premium money to subsidise those students where it was relevant.

Successive governments have given schools extra money for their poorer pupils, and this Government has codified it and increased the sums available through the pupil premium, worth # 900 a pupil this year and # 1300 in primaries next year.

But Mr Stuart said: «A deprived secondary school pupil in York who receives the pupil premium - worth fully # 935 this year - still has less spent on his or her education than an equivalent pupil in Birmingham who isn't eligible for the pupil premium.

The new «advanced maths premium» announced in last year's autumn budget was originally going to be worth # 600 for every pupil studying the subject beyond GCSE.

The Department for Education said that school funding was at record levels - # 40bn per year, including # 2.5 bn in pupil premium payments supporting disadvantaged children.

The pupil premium of # 600 a year is widely seen as a cornerstone of the coalition's education policy in England.

Pupil premium funding is intended to help provide more support for children from poorer families, with primary schools currently claiming # 953 per year for each eligible child.

Sir John Dunford, the national pupil premium champion, said the above figures are not a reliable year - on - year indicator because of policy changes.

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In the academic year 2014 - 15, the total pupil premium budget will be # 2.5 bn.

But the introduction of the universal infant free school meal policy last year has had a knock - on for pupil premium.

Pupil premium cash for looked - after children is overseen by local authorities, but schools choose what to do with the # 1,900 they get every year for each previously looked - after pPupil premium cash for looked - after children is overseen by local authorities, but schools choose what to do with the # 1,900 they get every year for each previously looked - after pupilpupil.

«We are increasing the pupil premium to # 2.5 bn a year and doubling the number of disadvantaged two - year - olds eligible for free nursery places to 260,000.

Last year, about one in four premium - eligible pupils in these areas reached this benchmark, Ofsted said.

It includes the # 2.5 bn a year being pledged for the «pupil premium» - where money will follow disadvantaged children to schools.