«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.
Not exact matches
There are a
number of possible explanations for these trends and the fact check is correct when it states that the improvement in the socioeconomic gap in achievement at age 11 can not be specifically attributed to the
pupil premium.
One school was praised by Ofsted for using money from the
pupil premium to pay for a
number of cultural trips to Saudi Arabia.
Schools» eligibility for a bursary will be decided based on the
number of pupils who are eligible for free school meals or
pupil premium.
A growing
number of schools are using
pupil premium funding for disadvantaged
pupils to offset budget cuts, according to polling published by the Sutton Trust and the Education Endowment Foundation.
I hope that this gives a flavour
of our approach within Brighton & Hove — I have had meetings with a
number of schools to date and they have all agreed to the partnership approach, and that the advice and lead from the LA should ensure that we maximise
pupil premium eligibility registrations.
An analysis
of the Sussex data suggests that schools with high
numbers of students receiving the
pupil premium are more likely to have had their music curriculum time decreased.
«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.
Parents who don't register their eligibility also pose a problem for school budgets, as things like
pupil premium cash is paid based on the
number of FSM - eligible
pupils.
A small, but growing,
number of schools are using their funding for disadvantaged
pupils to offset budget cuts elsewhere — 6 %
of teachers reported this as the main priority for their school's
pupil premium spending, an increase from 2 % in 2015.
Pupil premium is calculated by the
number of FSM children at the school in addition to the
number of looked after children who attend the school.
In Kent, an increasing
number of children who have received the
pupil premium are attending grammar schools, so Kent is working at widening access.