Our Academy

Additional Funding

The academy receives additional funding in three main areas; Pupil Premium Grant, Catch-Up Grant and Covid 19 funding. Please see below for the spending strategies and impact.

Pupil Premium

The Pupil Premium funding is allocated to schools to support students who have been registered for free school meals (FSM) at any point in the last six years (known as ‘Ever 6 FSM’).

The Government believes that Pupil Premium, funding which is additional to main school funding, is the best way to address the current underlying inequalities between children eligible for free school meals (FSM) and their peers.

Pupil Premium funding is available to schools to support those pupils who fall into the categories below:

  • Free School Meals (FSM) (or have been in receipt during the last 6 years “Ever6”),
    • Children who are looked after (Looked After Children)
    • Children whose parents are currently serving in the armed forces.
    • Children adopted from care under the Adoption and Children Act 2002
    • and children who have left care under a Special Guardianship or Residence Order

Click here for our Pupil Premium Strategy Statement 2023/24.

Covid 19 Funding

The government announced £1 billion of funding to support children and young people to catch up lost time after school closure. This is especially important for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged backgrounds. This funding includes:

  • a one-off universal £650 million catch up premium for the 2020 to 2021 academic year to ensure that schools have the support they need to help all pupils make up for lost teaching time
  • a £350 million National Tutoring Programme to provide additional, targeted support for those children and young people who need the most help, which includes:

School allocations will be calculated on a per pupil basis.

Mainstream school will get £80 for each pupil in from reception to year 11 inclusive.

Special, AP and hospital schools will get £240 for each place for the 2020 to 2021 academic year.

We have applied additional weighting to specialist settings, recognising the significantly higher per pupil costs they face. A typical primary school of 200 pupils will receive £16,000 while a typical secondary school of 1,000 pupils will receive £80,000.

Please click here for our plan for the Covid 19 funding.

The Primary PE & Sport Premium

The PE and Sport Premium provides ring fenced money to primary schools to improve the quality of the PE and sport activities they offer their pupils. The funding is currently worth £150 million per year and is provided jointly by the Department for Education, the Department of Health and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

The Prime Minister has confirmed that the government have committed the funding for the Primary PE & Sport Premium to August 2025.

Bournville primary provision has allocated the funding to provide additional and sustainable improvements to the provision of PE and sport and to encourage the development of healthy, active lifestyles

Please click here for more details

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