To support parents in completing the application for Pupil Premium, we're holding a parent workshop on Monday 10th March at 9:00am in the school library. All are welcome to help decide whether you are entitled to the funding- any successful parents will have free access to our spare uniform cupboard.

If you were unable to attend this support, please see the admin staff or our Pupil Premium lead and Deputy Headteacher Ms K Isaac who will be happy to assist you. 

Pupil Premium funding

The Pupil Premium is allocated to schools with pupils on roll that are known to have been eligible for free school meals (FSM) at any time in the last six years; that are children who have been looked after continuously for more than six months; or that are children of service personnel. Schools have the freedom to spend the Pupil Premium, which is additional to the underlying schools budget, in a way they think will best support the raising of attainment for the most vulnerable pupils.

Free School Meals Eligibility

To be entitled to free school meals parents must be receiving one of the following support payments:

• Income Support
• Employment Support Allowance (Income Related)
• Income Based Job Seekers Allowance
• Guaranteed Pension Credit
• Child Tax credit and the assessed family income does not exceed £16,190. Parents receiving Working Tax Credit are not entitled regardless of the level of assessed income.
• Children of Asylum Seekers who receive support from Social Services are entitled as are those children who receive Income Support in their own right.

Parents wishing to apply for this are required to complete a Free School Meals Application form which can be found using this link.

Parents are not required to provide evidence of the benefit as checks will be made using data held by the Department for Education.

In making provision for socially disadvantaged pupils, we recognise that not all pupils who receive free school meals will be socially disadvantaged.  We also recognise that not all pupils who are socially disadvantaged are registered or qualify for free school meals so we therefore reserve the right to allocate the Pupil Premium funding to support any pupil or group of pupils the school has legitimately identified as being socially disadvantaged.

How our pupil premium is spent.

Please look at the documents below to see how how much pupil premium our school receives and how we spend it and measure its impact. 

Clubs and Pupil Premium

At Northlands, we provide rich experiences through extra-curricular activities which strengthen our offer and aim to provide opportunities for pupils to develop their talents and interest. To ensure that our children in receipt of pupil premium access these clubs, we offer first refusal to those pupils before opening the offer out to all children at Northlands- this is done through ParentPay where parents will receive a personal invite for their child to join one of our many clubs on offer each term/half term. If you require further information, please do not hesitate to speak to our Pupil Premium lead and Deputy Headteacher, Ms K Isaac or a member of the admin staff who will be happy to assist you.

Pupil Premium Case Studies

To better understand the impact of our pupil premium spending, we rigorously track the progress and attainment of children in receipt of the funding: one example of how we do this is to record a case study of a sample of children. Below are examples children who made exceptional progress and achieved highly, in some cases, outperforming their non-PP peers.

Child A was working below the expected standard across subjects but went on to achieve Greater Depth in their end of year 6 reading SATs. This was as a result of hard work and dedication from the child, quality-first teaching and high quality intervention delivered by TAs, utilising the PiXL resources. Both TAs and PiXL are funded -or partially funded-by the Pupil Premium spend. 

Child B was working at the expected standard across subjects with the ability to achieve Greater Depths in maths. Through self-motivation from the child, careful tracking and high quality interventions, they went on to achieve Greater Depth in maths, writing and SPAG. 

PP Pupil Voice

We conduct regular pupil voice here at Northlands to allow us to gain a deeper understanding of our children's needs. Below are the responses from our Autumn pupil voice with any actions detailed.

As a result of the survey findings, we discussed with the children the positive of having red pen responses and how often it is to deepen their learning, not because there are lots of corrections. We also reminded them and emphasised the importance of making mistakes on our learning journey and how they help us to learn better.

With regards to the different texts, in specific year groups, we looked deeply at the texts we were using in both English and reading lessons and planned based on the interests of the children to encourage their love of reading.