Pupil Premium
The pupil premium funding is intended to raise the educational attainment of disadvantaged pupils of all abilities to help them reach their potential
Pupil Premium Nationally
The pupil premium funding for publicly funded schools in England is intended to raise the educational attainment of disadvantaged pupils of all abilities to help them reach their potential
Pupil premium funding is available to:
- local authority maintained schools, including special schools and pupil referral units
- voluntary-sector alternative provision with local authority agreement
- special schools not maintained by the local authority (NMSS)
- academies and free schools, including special and AP academies
In the 2025 to 2026 financial year, schools will receive the following funding for each child recorded as eligible for free school meals (FSM) or who have been recorded as eligible in the past 6 years (FSM Ever 6) or previously looked-after children (PLAC):
- £1,515 for pupils in reception year to year 6
- £1,075 for pupils in year 7 to year 11
Schools will also receive £2,630 for each pupil who has left local-authority care because of 1 of the following:
- adoption
- a special guardianship order
- a child arrangements order
- a residence order
If a pupil has been registered as eligible for free school meals and has also left local-authority care for any of the reasons above, they will attract the £2,630 rate.
Looked After Children - Children in Our Care
For LAC, it is the responsibility of the BwD Virtual School in consultation with the child’s school, to ensure that PP grant is used on evidence-informed interventions to support the child’s educational needs. These are evidence in each LAC individual Personal Education Plan - PEP and funding for these is received by school from the LA.
In the 2025 to 2026 financial year, the Local Authority will receive the following funding for each Looked After Child
- £2,630 for each pupil
Implications of the free school meals expansion on pupil premium
From the start of the 2026 to 2027 academic year, the Department for Education (DfE) is delivering an expansion to FSM eligibility to include all pupils from households in receipt of Universal Credit. There will then be 2 categories of FSM:
- Targeted FSM, which continues to be based on the existing £7,400 income threshold
- Expanded FSM, which will apply to meals only, covering pupils who do not qualify for Targeted FSM, but who are in households in receipt of Universal Credit
Following the expansion of FSM, only pupils eligible for Targeted FSM will be part of the Ever 6 FSM cohort. This means that pupils who become eligible for FSM for the first time through the new Expanded FSM category will not attract pupil premium funding.
Pupils who were eligible for FSM before the expansion will continue to be part of the Ever 6 FSM cohort after the expansion. That includes any pupil whose household income increases after the expansion, such that they either lose FSM eligibility altogether or become eligible for FSM through Expanded FSM. Such pupils will remain part of the Ever 6 FSM cohort for 6 years.
Pupil Premium at Newfield
Each financial year Newfield receives Pupil Premium to help to raise the educational attainment of disadvantaged pupils of all abilities to help them reach their potential. The amount of this grant will vary from year to year and it is heavily subsidised from the total school funds available in order to ensure our children receive consistent staffing expertise.
Pupil premium is additional funding for state-funded schools in England to help raise the educational outcomes of disadvantaged 5-16-year-olds. Schools should use their pupil premium to address the specific challenges their disadvantaged pupils face, through high-quality teaching, targeted academic support and wider strategies to help pupils to attend, belong and succeed.
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
- for whole class interventions which will also benefit non-disadvantaged pupils
Cite: Using pupil premium: guidance for school leaders, August 2026
At Newfield School all our children are vulnerable and we have identified that no particular group of children do less well than any other group. Newfield has developed a Pupil Premium position statement and provision criteria to support understanding of how we use the funding to provide interventions.
All activities that Newfield funds using pupil premium falls under an approach listed in the menu of approaches which has been developed in line with EEF’s tiered approach.
Academic year September 2026 – March 2027
Pupil premium from September 26 - March 27 - we have received £60,054. There will be a further allocation, yet to be determined, in the new financial year, after April 2027, with indicative funding over the whole academic year tbc.
Information about how the pupil premium funding for the academic year 2026-27 will be spent is detailed in our Pupil Premium Strategy Statement 2026-2027 - COMING SOON
Pupil assessment is completed termly with analysis of summative and formative results for individuals and groups of pupils to ensure that targeted resources secure equal outcomes for all children (see Equality Policy.)
Academic year 2025 – 2026
In the academic year 2025/2026 we received an amount of £100,080.
Information about how the pupil premium funding for the academic year 2025-26 was spent is detailed in the impact statement.
COMING SOON
Academic year 2024 – 2025
In the academic year 2024/2025 we received an amount of £96,760.
Information about how the pupil premium funding for the academic year 2024-25 was spent is detailed in the impact statement.
Pupil Premium Impact Statement 2024-2025
Academic year 2023 – 2024
Information about how the pupil premium funding for the academic year 2023-24 was spent is detailed in the impact statement.
In the academic year 2023/2024 we received a pupil premium amount of £94,868.