At Mayflower High School, we are committed to ensuring that all students, regardless of their background or the challenges they may face, experience success, happiness, and opportunity. The focus of our Pupil Premium strategy is to support disadvantaged and other vulnerable students in achieving these goals.
We carefully consider the unique challenges faced by our students and ensure that the support we provide is clearly defined and tailored to their individual needs.
Our Approach
We adopt a tiered approach to Pupil Premium spending, which focuses on:
- High-Quality Teaching – Ensuring all students benefit from effective classroom instruction.
- Targeted Academic Support – Providing tailored interventions to address specific learning needs.
- Wider Strategies – Supporting students’ broader development and wellbeing.
Our use of Pupil Premium funding aligns with the ‘menu of approaches’ set out by the Department for Education.
What is the Pupil Premium Grant?
The Pupil Premium Grant is funding provided to improve educational outcomes for disadvantaged pupils in state-funded schools in England. Students eligible for Pupil Premium include:
- Pupils recorded as eligible for free school meals (FSM) now or at any time in the last six years, including children from families with no recourse to public funds (NRPF).
- Children looked after by local authorities (referred to as looked-after children).
- Children who were previously looked after by a local authority or in other state care (referred to as previously looked-after children).
The Pupil Premium Grant is not a personal budget for individual students, and schools are not required to spend the allocated funds solely on eligible students.
Additionally, Service Pupil Premium is funding provided for schools with pupils who have parents serving in the armed forces.
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Eligibility Criteria:
Your child may be able to get free school meals if you get any of the following:
- Income Support
- income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
- income-related Employment and Support Allowance
- support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
- the guaranteed element of Pension Credit
- Child Tax Credit (provided you’re not also entitled to Working Tax Credit and have an annual gross income of no more than £16,190)
- Working Tax Credit run-on – paid for 4 weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit
- Universal Credit – if you apply on or after 1 April 2018 your household income must be less than £7,400 a year (after tax and not including any benefits you get)
Children who get paid these benefits directly, instead of through a parent or guardian, can also get free school meals.
Your child may also get free school meals if you get any of these benefits and your child is both:
- younger than the compulsory age for starting school
- in full-time education
