Pupil Premium Statement 2025_2028

At St. Peter's, we have been innovative in our approach to supporting those within our community that need support. As our vision of, 'One Family, Aiming High, Learning Together with God,' and our school parable of The Lost Sheep shows that we love and care for all of those within our family. Through love and support we can provide better life chances just as Jesus did when he brought his teachings to the world. Our children are happy and make not only academic progress but also spiritual. No child shall ever not have the same chances that others do based on their financial context at St. Peter's. 

About Pupil Premium

The Pupil Premium is allocated to schools for children of statutory school age who are known to be eligible for Free school meals (FSM) or children who have been eligible in the last six years.  It is also for children who have been looked after by the local authority continuously for more than six months, and children whose parents are currently serving in the armed forces. Currently, if a child is eligible for free school means, they are awarded a grant of £1,320.For children that are Looked after by County, the children are awarded a grant of £2,300. If the child is a service child, they are awarded a grant of £300. 

This money is allocated to primary schools and they may choose to use this as they wish. 

At St. Peter's Primary School, we have undertaken a whole school approach to support vulnerable pupils. We are aware of barriers to learning individual pupils may experience and we work hard, in partnership with parents, to reduce and where possible eliminate these barriers. At St. Peter's Primary School we have high expectations for all pupils regardless of starting points and external influences. Barriers to learning might include, limited access to language, poor literacy levels, poor attendance, low aspirations, low expectations, narrow experience of life outside school. Individual support programmes are targeted to each individual pupil and monitored accordingly. At St. Peter's, we do not relent when challenging our disadvantaged children. We track starting points and follow those through the school. 

All schools are accountable for how the additional funding is used to support pupils and are required to show the impact of this spending.  We are very proud of the positive impact on pupil outcomes of our Pupil Premium Grants. This is not just academically but in relation to behaviour for learning. This can be directly linked to the whole school promotion of our behaviour for learning characteristics for all pupils. We use our pupil premium funding to support our children based on their individual needs. We also promote the values of our school and use these to help guide our support. 

Overall School Targets for Disadvantaged children

At St. Peter's, we had a brokerage visit from Linda Hardman (District School Effectiveness Adviser (Three Rivers)), who audited our provision. 

From Ms Hardman's, visit we have identified the following four targets to be tackled at a whole school level. 

1. Ensure EYFS provision for disadvantaged and vulnerable pupils is strengthened.

2. Ensure accelerated progress is enabled for all underachieving pupils.

3. Further develop the role of governance in relation to the disadvantaged and vulnerable learners.

4. Ensure the published school strategy is compliant with statutory requirements.

All stakeholders are aware of these targets and we will continue to work towards completing them. We will always have the highest expectations of our disadvantaged children so that we can close the gap between their peers. 

Please read the information below which gives details of our Pupil Premium Grant and how we allocate the funding. Mr Conley monitors and develops our PP provision across St. Peter's.