Pupil Premium at Farnborough Road Juniors

The Pupil Premium is allocated to children from low-income families who are currently known to be eligible for free school meals (FSM) in both mainstream and non-mainstream settings, children who have been looked after continuously for more than six months and children from Services families.  This also includes any pupils eligible for FSM at any point in the last six years.

Schools are free to spend their Pupil Premium as they see fit. However, we will be held to account for how we have used the additional funding to narrow the gap for these targeted pupils. We are required to publish online how we have used the premium. This is to ensure that parents and other stakeholders are made fully aware of the impact of this additional resourcing on learning and achievement outcomes within our school.

Please contact us to check if your child is eligible and how to take the next steps.

Pupil Premium has been used to

• Provide additional teachers to make sure that our more vulnerable children are making good progress in all subjects
• Use senior teachers to provide high quality intervention sessions for the children in Y6 classes
• Improve intervention for reading, writing and maths to make sure that pupils are kept on target to achieve well, using a dedicated team of teaching assistants
• Increase Teaching Assistant hours to help with 1:1 support for Pupil Premium students
• generate a love of reading by providing additional reading support outside the normal school day
• Improve student engagement by funding extra curricular opportunities.

School Sport Money 

In 2024/5 we have used School Sport Money (£20,700) for the following:

• Improving the calendar of opportunity for pupils by increasing participation. Money used for staff release and transport. (£4k)
• Improving internal sports provision with staff release for lunch clubs and organisation (£2k)
• Active interventions for children across the school outside the PE lessons. Aim is to improve focus in school through activity. (£2k)
• Extension of after school sport to provide free sport across the school for as many children as possible. Funds spent on staff overt time etc. (£6k)
• Review of school curriculum. Funds spent on training and curriculum training etc (£4k)
• Provision of top up swimming for pupils over and above the basic curriculum (£3k)