Pupil Premium & Sports Premium

What Is Pupil Premium?  

Pupil premium is additional funding allocated to all schools in England to support disadvantaged pupils and to support schools to close the gap between them and their peers. This budget includes pupils who are currently entitled to free school meals, have been free school meals in the past six years (FSM ‘Ever 6’), children that are cared for or adopted from care and children whose parents are in the armed forces. It is entirely up to individual schools to decide how the money is spent. 

You can find out more about the pupil premium on the GOV.UK website

Applying for this grant is very simple, it can be done online, for more information please see below:

www.sutton.gov.uk/-/apply-for-free-school-meals

Pupil Premium Information Flyer

At Cheam Park Farm Primary Academy we seek to ensure the effectiveness of our use of the pupil premium. We take a holistic approach to supporting our children and ensure that we get to know the children really well and gain an accurate insight into their strengths and needs and use this to inform us fully of the support they may need to help them overcome any barriers to learning. This would be tailored to their individual needs and would include a range of different support which could include nurture and social and emotional support, academic support in focus areas, enrichment activities to boost confidence and self-esteem. We offer our children a wide range of opportunities and ensure that these are accessible for everyone. We work with families and colleagues to make sure everyone has high aspirations for all pupils. We ensure pupil premium children are well represented and have a voice on our school council and other pupil groups.

When applying to a Sutton/Surrey school you will be encouraged to complete an application for free school meals. All children eligible for free school meals are also eligible for a government grant of £1480 per child. This money is used by Cheam Park Farm Primary Academy for a wide range of purposes as indicated below.

To access the New online Free School Meals/Pupil Premium checking service please click on the following link:

Pupil Premium Eligibilty Checker

Pupil Premium in the year 2024 to 2025 academic year  

As in previous years, schools should continue to use the pupil premium to improve the attainment of pupils. The disproportionately high impact of COVID-19 on the education of disadvantaged pupils has made this more important than ever.
For 2024 to 2025, schools are required to:

• use their  pupil premium funding and report on your use of them as a single sum in your strategy statement
• use this template to publish a strategy statement - see condition 8 of the conditions of grant
• publish your strategy statement by 31 December 2024

In 2024/25 the school receives £1,480 for every primary-aged pupil registered as eligible for free school meals at any point in the last 6 years. 

Pupil Premium Strategy Statement 2024-2025

Looked After Children/Post Looked After Children/ Adopted Pupils Funding

At Cheam Park Farm we are committed to supporting all LAC/Post LAC and adopted children or those with special guardianship in order to help them thrive and develop to their full potential.
We do this through the following:

• Training as appropriate e.g  attachment   
• Family Development Worker  available on request for 1:1 sessions with parents/carers to focus on any difficulties at home, to support family and provide emotional support for adults.
• Raising awareness of specific issues e.g adoption through assemblies and class work.                               
• Inclusion Leader meeting with class teachers to discuss each child and review as needed.                          
• Termly monitoring of progress by Senior Leadership Team 
• Teachers attending training as necessary to ensure up to date with latest legislation and good practice.

Additionally the shool will consider each case individually to access any support that may help a particular child such as Drama Therapy, Nurture, booster groups or after school clubs.

In 2024/25 the school receives £2,570 for every looked after child/adopted child.

Pupils with parents in the regular armed forces recorded as 'ever 6 service children’.

The pupil premium is also used to support pupils with parents in the regular armed forces. Service children aren't considered to be disadvantaged for the purposes of the pupil premium grant, so schools shouldn't track them as part of this group. Instead, they should track them as their own distinct group.                        
In 2024/25 the school receives £340 for every ‘ever 6 service child’.

EYFS Pupil Premium

The Early Years Pupil Premium provides an extra 68 pence per hour (up to 570 hours) for three and four year old children whose parents are in receipt of certain benefits or who were formally in local authority care but who left care because they were adopted or were subject to a special guardianship or child arrangements order. The payment to the school is made on a termly basis in arrears.

Sports Premium

The Sports Premium funding can be used in a variety of ways, but aims to provide fantastic opportunities before, during and after the school day. The following sports funding report explains the breakdown of the spend, the impact and the sustainability of the funding. The funding aims to improve sport, PE and physical education through five key indicators:

• The engagement of all pupils in regular physical activity.
• Raising the profile of PE and sport across the whole school as a tool for whole school improvement.
• Increased confidence, knowledge and skills of all staff in teaching PE and sport.
• Offer all pupils a broader experience of a range of sports and activities.
• Increased participation in competitive sport.

Sports Premium Funding 2024-2025

Our PE instructor continues to provide a fantastic range of opportunities and clubs here at Cheam Park Farm. This includes numerous clubs before, during and after school; lunchtime activities with sports leaders; and organisation of multiple sporting fixtures and festivals.

Through the PE and Sports Premium funding, we have ensured that there are opportunities for all children – regardless of age, background and ability – to participate in sport and physical activity.