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Pupil Premium, PE & Sports Premium & Covid19 Catch Up

Pupil Premium

The Pupil Premium was introduced by the government in April 2011. It was designed to give additional money to support schools in raising the attainment of children who receive free school meals, children whose parents serve in the Armed Forces and those children in local authority care. These groups of children have been identified nationally as achieving at a lower level than children from less disadvantaged backgrounds.

Where does the money come from?

Pupil Premium is allocated to schools based on the number of children who are currently known to be eligible for Free School Meals (not universal infant free school meals), whose parents serve in the Armed Forces and children who have been looked after in local authority care continuously for more than six months.

Please see below for the most recent pupil premium spending plans.


PE & Sport Premium

Primary PE and Sport Premium is an initiative that aims to help increase and improve the PE and sporting opportunities for children and was first provided in the 2013/14 academic year.

PE and Sport Premium funding is provided jointly by the Department for Education, the Department for Health and Culture and the Department for Media and Sport.  It has been allocated to primary school headteachers and is ring-fenced, meaning that it can only be spent on the provision of PE and sport in schools.

The government believes that headteachers and school leaders should decide how to use the funding for PE and Sports in school. They are held accountable for the decisions they make through:

  • The performance outcomes of all pupils compared with their peers
  • The Ofsted inspection framework, under which inspectors focus on the attainment of pupil groups, in particular in those areas where specific funding has been provided
  • The reports that schools are required to publish online for parents

All primary schools receive a lump sum plus £10 per pupil aged 5 or over on roll.  Here at Daventry Hill School, we aim to use the funding effectively to ensure that standards of learning and achievement in PE and Sports are raised, with all children, regardless of their background, engaging in physical activity as part of the curriculum and extracurricular provision.

Follow the link below to access our most recent spending plans.