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Pupil & PE/Sports Premium

Primary Pupil Premium

At Eastbury Community Primary, we have high aspirations and ambitions for all our children and we believe that no child should be left behind. We are determined to ensure that our children are given every chance to realise their full potential. We aspire to: ‘Getting the best from and for all our learners’.

The Government believes that the Pupil Premium , 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 wealthier peers by ensuring that funding to tackle disadvantage reaches the children that need it most.

We currently have on roll 58 Pupil Premium pupils ( 15% of our school population). A fair proportion of our Pupil Premium pupils are SEND, SEMH, and/or EAL which can also impact on their progress and attainment and affect performance data.

It is for the school to decide how the Pupil Premium allocated to schools per FSM pupil is spent since they are best placed to assess what additional provision should be made for the individual pupils within their responsibility. The Pupil Premium Strategy is published to ensure that parents are fully informed about the amount of allocation, barriers face by eligible pupils, how the funding is spent, how impact will be measured and the date the strategy will be reviewed.

Our key objective in using the Pupil Premium Grant is to diminish the differences between pupil groups.

What we aim to achieve with our Pupil Premium funding

Our key objective in using the Pupil Premium Grant is to narrow the gap between pupil groups.
Through targeted interventions, we are working to eliminate barriers to learning and progress.
For children who start school with low attainment on entry, our aim is to ensure that they make accelerated progress in order to reach age related expectations as they move through the school.
To ensure that we cater for all academic abilities, including challenging high attaining pupil premium children.

Pupil Premium Grant Received 2025/26

PP Grant Received 2025/26	£93,930
Total Pupils Eligible for Grant	58

The school’s evaluation of its own performance is rigorous. Tracking of progress over time for each pupil is thorough in order to identify any areas for development and to ensure that we implement any interventions necessary to close the gap. These assessments happen half-termly and data is gathered, collated and analysed to assess the impact of interventions as well as to highlight the potential need for additional support.

We will use a range of data to analyse the impact of spending:

End of Key Stage data
Phonics assessments
Current data
Intervention analysis
Outcomes of learning reviews (observations), learning moderations (book scrutinies) and progress meetings
Stakeholder feedback

Secondary Pupil Premium

The pupil premium is additional funding given to school so that they can support their disadvantaged pupils and close the attainment gap between them and their peers.

It was introduced in April 2011 and is allocated to schools to work with pupils who have been registered for free school meals (FSM) at any point in the last six years. Looked after children and those of service personnel also attract funding.

Our use of the pupil premium has closed attainment gaps over the past three years. We have summarised the examination results below with comparisons against national statistics. We have also included a series of links at the bottom of the page that detail the spending and impact since 2011. We have included the data for outcomes of pupil premium spending below.

We also receive year 7 literacy and numeracy catch-up premium funding. The literacy and numeracy catch-up premium gives schools additional funding to support year 7 pupils who did not achieve at least level 4 in reading or maths at the end of key stage 2 (KS2).

how much funding we received
how we intend to spend the funding
how we spent the funding in the previous academic year

PE & Sports Premium

PE and Sports Premium Funding

In April 2013, the Departments for Education, Health and Culture, Media and Sport announced new funding to support the delivery of PE and school sport. The premium is used to fund additional and sustainable improvements to the provision of PE and sport, for the benefit of primary-aged pupils to encourage the development of healthy, active lifestyles.

Pupil Premium - How to apply

To apply in Barking & Dagenham, simply visit the council’s website and complete the Free School Meals & Pupil Premium application form. It’s quick, confidential, and can make a real difference to your child’s education.

Apply here: https://eforms.lbbd.gov.uk/free-school-meals

If you’re unsure whether you qualify, please contact the school office who can put you in touch with Ms Lees, our Family Support Worker, or a member of the Inclusion team who will be happy to help.