What is the Primary PE and Sports Premium?
PE and school sport is very important to us all at Park Community Academy and we pride ourselves on promoting physical activity by offering a wide range of experiences within PE lessons, during lunchtimes, after school and extra-curricular activities. Every Primary school in the country has received additional funding from the government for sport and physical education in this academic year. Within school we have an action plan outlining how we wish to use the money.
What is Pupil Premium?
The Pupil Premium was introduced in April 2011. It is allocated to schools and academies to support pupils who:
Have been registered for free school meals at any point in the last six years since summer 2008 (known as 'Ever 6 FSM);
- Are, or have been, Looked after by the Local Authority for at least 6 months;
- Are, or have been, adopted from care under the Adoption and Children Act 2002;
- Have left care under a Special Guardianship or Residence Order (known as post-LAC); or,
- Have parents in the armed forces.
What is the purpose of Pupil Premium?
Nationally, statistics show that children in receipt of FSM do less well than their peers in tests and exams. The aim of this money is to try to close that attainment gap by allowing the school to direct additional resources towards individual learning needs.
How do we spend our allocation?
We are required by OFSTED to publish how much Pupil Premium money we receive and how we have chosen to spend that money and the impact it has had.
Our tracking system allows us to monitor the children’s progress. We now look closely at the attainment and achievement of all pupils and in particular those children in more vulnerable groups such as free school meals and Looked After Children to ensure that they are making the expected progress, in line with their peers and with children in other schools nationally.
Take a look at our Pupil Premium Strategy: