Pupil Premium

The Pupil Premium is additional funding that is given to schools to address the inequalities between children currently eligible for free school meals (or who have been in the last 6 years) and their peers.

Aim

To use the Pupil Premium funding to raise educational attainment and progress of Pupil Premium pupils to help them to reach their potential.

Approach

The Pupil Premium strategy outlines our approach to spending the Pupil Premium funding effectively.

Strategies

If your child is eligible for Pupil Premium funding, details below outline how we aim to support them throughout their time at Ashby School.

1. The Pupil Premium funding will be used to ensure your child is receiving quality first teaching. Subject interventions may also be provided if deemed appropriate.
2. Students can also access pastoral support where needed which may include small group work, mentoring and workshops.
3. If you require any support in purchasing uniform, stationery or other items that your child requires for Ashby School please contact us to discuss how we can assist.

Pupil Premium Funding can be used to support curriculum related trips. The amount of support for trips will be decided on a case by case basis.

Monitoring and Evaluation

The Pupil Premium strategy is constructed and shared with governors at the start of the academic year. Strategies are monitored by the senior leader responsible for Pupil Premium and allocated governor throughout the course of the academic year.

For full details of our Pupil Premium Strategy, please click here for Pupil Premium Strategy 2022 – 2025

Service Child Pupil Premium

If your child is in receipt of the service child pupil premium, this funding is used primarily to support your child pastorally, if needed, in the case of or pre/post deployment. Please do share information with us regarding deployment to ensure we are able to assist our students appropriately.

For any Pupil Premium enquiries, please contact pupilpremium@ashbyschool.org.uk

Free School Meals:

If your child isn’t registered for Free School Meals and you receive any of the following benefits, your child may be able to get free school meals:

• 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(Link is external and opens in new window)
• in full-time education

Currently all children entitled to free school meals will receive them until the end of the academic year 2025/26. This continues even if your income increases. This is called transitional protection.

From the start of the 2026/27 academic year, it is the Department for Education’s intention that all protections will be discontinued, alongside an extension to the eligibility criteria for free school meals. From this point, households must meet the eligibility criteria to be entitled to free school meals.

Apply here: https://www.leicestershire.gov.uk/education-and-children/social-care-and-supporting-families/free-school-meals