Sentences with phrase «pupil premium money»

Her focus is on using pupil premium money to help all those families» children.

Its catchment covers a deprived area, and Payne believes the hot breakfasts that she's using pupil premium money to pay for at the breakfast club will have greater benefits than a free lunch for just three year groups.

In its findings, the EFA did not find pupil premium money had been inappropriately spent but said there was no specific policy relating to funding or expenditure.

Ongoing weaknesses included high exclusion rates and a lack of evaluation of how pupil premium money was being spent.

The «pupil premium plus» money, which schools get to help previously looked - after children, ought to be «ring - fenced» so it's not lumped in with pupil premium money for children on free school meals, she said.

Another approach would be to start including pupil premium money - targeted at deprived children - into the general funding equation.

But the committee wanted more sharing of how pupil premium money could be used most efficiently.

«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.

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.

Secondary schools that have shown effective ways of using their pupil premium money to improve GCSE achievement are set to battle it out for a prize of up to # 250,000.

In a high proportion of the schools, pupil premium money, intended as extra funding for disadvantaged pupils, is now being used to «prop up core budgets» they say.

The government is giving schools autonomy in this area and it is for schools to decide what to spend the pupil premium money on.

Over two - fifths of school leaders said the pupil premium money was being used to pay for more teaching assistants, however.

There were school budgets that were equal to the task and not forced to use their pupil premium money — designed to support disadvantaged pupils — to prop up their core school budgets.

Not exact matches

Ms Teather told the Fatherhood Institute: «The pupil premium that we are introducing will provide additional money for the most deprived pupils: by 2014/15 this premium will be worth # 2.5 billion.

A pupil premium will be established for disadvantaged youngsters by taking money from other budgets.

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.

The other cuts being discussed, such as ID cards and trident, are going to save money to do other things, including reducing the deficit and paying for other spending commitments, such as the pupil premium.

«It is simply staggering that the Coalition Government claims to be serious about introducing a pupil premium when it is yet to say how much money will be provided to schools or where the additional money will come from.

«I am delivering extra money for the pupil premium, extra money for post offices, tax cuts for low income earners, crackdown on tax avoiders... these are things that are happening because we are in a coalition government - because Liberal Democrats have their stamp not just on the government but on the Treasury, too.»

«But because [education secretary] Michael Gove will not give guidance to headteachers on ways to do that, nor monitor how the money is being used, we have no way of knowing what the pupil premium is being spent on.

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

One school was praised by Ofsted for using money from the pupil premium to pay for a number of cultural trips to Saudi Arabia.

The Conservative plans to let money follow the pupil to the school of their parents» choice and, crucially, to add a pupil premium to the poorest children.

She argued that there were elements in the legislation Lib Dems should support, including the pupil premium, which would mean schools enrolling disadvantaged pupils receiving more money.

The interviews given by leading Lib Dem MPs over the weekend suggest that their narrative at the next election will go something like this: «We have protected the poorest and most deserving by raising the personal tax allowance, providing the biggest ever increase in the state pension, and giving schools a «pupil premium» - more money for every child on free school meals.

But these were focused on specific savings to fund new spending: using the Child Trust Fund and restricting tax credits to pay for the pupil premium and to release money for a jobs package.

He pointed to his early successes where he won a «pupil premium» to pump money into schools in disadvantaged areas, a referendum on electoral reform - which he lost - and an increase in the tax - free allowance to # 10,000.

He goes on and on about the pupil premium, when schools always did get extra money for children on free school meals.

In response to the funding cuts, the DfE has encouraged schools to keep the summer classes open using the money from pupil premium.

For the majority of schools, the pupil premium is not additional money.

«For the majority of schools, the pupil premium is not additional money because of cuts in schools» main budgets.

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.

«Manually tracked information does not allow for accurate reporting on money received and can also be difficult to track student grants or pupil premium reductions for things such as trips,» Jarvis said.

The school received # 205,700 in pupil premium funding in 2014/15, money that it has used to increase staffing levels, especially in maths and English.

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».

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.

Schools have had to use the pupil premium to plug the gaps caused by funding pressures elsewhere so this money simply gets subsumed into the rest of their budget.

However, cutting the money available can have a devastating impact on those schools that have been making the most progress, reaching out and engaging with families and for whom the pupil premium was a lifeline at a time of retrenchment.

«If the pupil premium turns out to be a token amount of money compared to existing deprivation funding, extra funding on top of a smaller budget, or paid for by cutting other programmes that help the most disadvantaged children then this announcement may turn out to be little more than a gimmick.»

The pupil premium is extra money given to schools to help improve the attainment of disadvantaged pupils.

A spokesman for the Department for Education said: «We're protecting the schools budget in cash terms per pupil, introducing a pupil premium for disadvantaged pupils, and putting money directly into heads» hands.

And it uses funds from the pupil premium - a pot of money aimed specifically at children from low - income homes - to support families of children that are at risk of underachievement.

The government's pupil premium scheme, which gives more money to schools for each child on free school meals, should also be more focused on aiding white working class children, he added.

When I put that to someone close to Education Secretary Michael Gove, they paused a while and said «that's a good question» before stressing that the pupil premium will come with new accountability measures for schools that will show how the poorest pupils are benefiting from the extra money.

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

Ministers say they will help to close the gap using the «pupil premium», where schools will get more money if they have more disadvantaged pupils.

«With the introduction of the pupil premium, and a new fairer funding system, we will ensure that schools get the money they require to meet the needs of pupils.»

It's expected they they will gain from the the government's pupil premium scheme, and receive extra money for pupils from poorer families.

«We have also introduced the pupil premium - worth # 2.5 bn a year from this April - and turned around more failing schools than ever before,» the spokesperson added, referring to the additional money paid to schools in England with deprived children.