Pupil Premium

Pupil premium is funding allocated to schools to improve education outcomes for disadvantaged pupils with the aim of diminishing the attainment gap between eligible pupils and their non-eligible peers. Funding is allocated to schools based on the number of eligible pupils on roll in the October school census; therefore, the funding amount allocated to individual schools has the potential to change year on year.

The DfE advises that school leaders are best placed to assess their pupils’ needs and, drawing on evidence of effective practice, decide how to spend the pupil premium. Brampton's Pupil Premium strategy details Brampton’s use of pupil premium funding to help improve the attainment of our disadvantaged pupils. It outlines our pupil premium intent, how we intend to spend the funding in this academic year, and the impact last year’s spending of pupil premium had within our school.

Pupil Premium Funding 2022-2023

The table below show the amount of funding for primary-aged pupils for academic year 2022-2023.

Statement of Intent

At Brampton, our vision to ‘educate, enrich, and empower’ is reflected in our whole-school development plan and pupil premium strategy. It is our intention that all pupils, irrespective of disadvantaging circumstances, have equal opportunity to their non-disadvantaged peers to be successful. Raising academic attainment of disadvantaged pupils across the curriculum through high-quality teaching (Tier 1) is the core aim of this strategy. However, we also recognise the contribution that targeted academic support (Tier 2) and wider strategies (Tier 3) make in enabling our pupils to fully participate in the curriculum and develop the knowledge, skills, values, behaviours, attitudes, and cultural capital necessary for the next stage of their education and life in modern Britain. 

Tiered Approach to Allocation of Funding

Our tiered approach for allocating funding aligns with the recommendations from the Department for Education and Education Endowment Foundation. Many strategies within the tiered model overlap categories, and the balance between categories varies from year to year as our school’s priorities change.

There is strong evidence that “what happens in the classroom makes the biggest difference... good teaching for all pupils has a particular benefit for disadvantaged students” (EEF Attainment Gap Report 2018); therefore, we allocate the greatest proportion of pupil premium funding to strategies that improve the quality of teaching and learning (Tier 1). Often, these strategies benefit all pupils.

Findings from the Education Endowment Foundation’s evidence reviews show that carefully chosen targeted academic support (Tier 2) has the potential to have a significant impact on pupil progress and attainment. Carrying forward unspent funding from 2020-2021 together with the additional recovery premium will enable an increase in targeted academic support in 2021-2022. 

Wider strategies (Tier 3) relate to the most significant non-academic challenges, including attendance, behaviour, and social and emotional support, which may negatively impact upon academic attainment. Given the impact of the pandemic, we plan to invest a greater proportion of funding in this tier over the coming academic years.

Four-step Approach to Development of the Pupil Premium Strategy

In line with Department for Education and Education Endowment Foundation guidance, we take a four-step cyclical approach in developing our pupil premium strategy:

1. Diagnose your pupils’ challenges and needs

A range of internal quantitative and qualitative data is analysed to identify common challenges faced by disadvantaged pupils at Brampton. It is helpful to compare eligible pupils’ data with the data of non-eligible pupils and available external data to ascertain whether these challenges are prevalent among Brampton’s disadvantaged pupils only.

2. Use strong evidence to support your strategy

Once we have identified the challenges and needs of our disadvantaged pupils, we seek relevant and robust internal and external evidence on which approaches are most likely to provide appropriate and effective solutions. We regularly refer to the work of the Education Endowment Foundation but carefully consider the relevance and applicability of the evidence with the specific contextual factors of our school.

3. Implement your strategy

Successful implementation of this strategy is a carefully staged process aligned with other school development plans and existing practices to ensure a sustained impact.

4. Monitor and evaluate your strategy

We continually monitor the progress of the pupil premium strategy, adapting the approach when and where appropriate. External monitoring is conducting by REAch2 Deputy Director of Education for Cluster 8 and by the Local Governing Body Pupil Premium Lead.  The impact of the strategy is formally evaluated in the summer term and presented to the Local Governing Body for review. A revised strategy for the next academic year is published on the school website in the Autumn Term.