Pupil Premium at GMS

Pupil Premium is a Government scheme that offers extra funding to students from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds, because research shows that often these students underperform compared to their peers. The funding is targeted at helping PP students reach their full potential.

PP students are those entitled to free school meals (FSM), looked after children (LAC) and those in the armed forces.

GMS uses its funding to best support the students in its care.

All PP students are identified and all staff, in all departments, engage in strategies to raise academic achievement.
Small group interventions with LSAs.
SEN students are monitored by SENCO.
Attendance support.
There is a dedicated PP coordinator.
Home-school communication is facilitated by the PP coordinator.
Parents/carers evening time slots are offered to the PP cohort before the whole school have access.
Trips and extra-curricular activities are paid for by the PP budget.
Textbooks are funded by the PP budget.
Enrichment and careers’ days to highlight opportunities.
A focus by the Teaching and Learning group on ways to encourage students to thrive in their learning.
There is a dedicated PP Trustee.

Pupil premium is not a personal budget for individual pupils, and schools do not have to spend pupil premium so that it solely benefits pupils who meet the funding criteria. It can be used:

to support other pupils with identified needs, such as those who have or have had a social worker, or who act as a carer
for whole class interventions which will also benefit non-disadvantaged pupils

Accountability

GMS shows accountability by publishing

its funding and ‘spend’ on the website
the most recent Ofsted report
performance tables

Pupil Premium Strategy Statements