Pupil Premium is additional funding given to state schools to improve outcomes for disadvantaged pupils. Schools receive funding based on the number of pupils who have been eligible for free school meals at any point in the last 6 years, who are adopted or who are currently or have ever been in care, even for one day. You can apply for free school meals below.
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Pupil Premium Funding for 2025-2026
£1515for each eligible child from Reception to Year 6
£2630 for each ‘Looked After’ or ‘Post Looked After’ child
There is also a pupil premium grant of £350 for each ‘service’ child whose parent is serving or has served in the armed services in the past 6 years or is in receipt of an MoD pension. The Service PP funding is aimed at providing pastoral support.
The school expects to receive £118,384 to fund our 25-26 Pupil Premium Strategy. .
MMPS PP Strategy Statement 25-26 (2024-2027)
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Our strategy for spending pupil premium is based on the following key principles:
- We are ambitious for all pupils and committed to diminishing differences in outcomes. Disadvantaged pupils at Morley do better than their peers nationally but sometimes less well than their classmates. We aim to use the pupil premium grant to address this.
- In drawing up the plan we consider current research and evidence of effective practice provided by partners such as Education Endowment Fund,
- Barriers to learning are both varied and specific to individual children. By considering the needs of each pupil eligible for the grant we aim to increase the effectiveness of our spending.
- Investment in high quality professional support from well trained teaching assistants, and improving opportunities for specific feedback from teachers is integral to raising achievement. Our pupil premium strategy focuses on how we can increase opportunities for this as well as identifying interventions where required.
- We expect all of our children to listen and pay attention to learning in class, we want to ensure that disadvantaged pupils with different starting points all make great progress because they are skilled and attentive learners.
- Teachers have quick and easy access to data and information to allow them to track progress for different groups of children, including disadvantaged pupils.
What impact has pupil premium spending had so far?
. We have high aspirations for all our children, including those in receipt of Pupil Premium funding, and are implementing strategies to overcome the issues faced by many of our Pupil Premium children which often include SEN, mobility (moving into catchment at different points in the school year and phase), and lower attendance. Our actions to address lower progress have included the Scholars Programme, using Reading Plus, which provides individualised programmes for improving children’s reading fluency, provision of skilled Teaching Assistants to progress the implementation and delivery of focused intervention programmes for individual children and groups. Funding an expert Music teacher to provide inspirational music sessions for children while also releasing class teachers to work 1:1 with eligible children in KS2.