Additional funding
The academy receives additional funding in two main areas: Pupil Premium Grant and the Primary PE and Sport Premium 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 by the Local Authority (Looked After Children)
- Children whose parents are currently serving in the armed forces
- Children adopted from care under the Adoption and Children Act 2002
- Children who have left care under a Special Guardianship or Residence Order.
The Primary PE and 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 nationally 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 and Sport Premium to August 2026.
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.