Pupil Strategy 2019 to 2020
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Guidance for Pupil Premium Funding Use
The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) issued guidance on how the Pupil Premium funding should be used. The key principles of the EEF guidance are that:
They also state that schools should use the grant in the three areas listed below:
- Schools should close the attainment gap – ensure children entitled to pupil premium funding perform as well as other children
- Schools should use evidence to identify how they use their funding – for example what are other schools doing, are we using any alternative approaches – what is the evidence base behind them
- Quality teaching helps every child – the pupil premium can be used to improve teaching
- Schools should implement a smaller number of strategies – less is more
- All children who are entitled to pupil premium should be supported (not just the low attainers)
They also state that schools should use the grant in the three areas listed below:
- Improve teaching
- Targeted Academic Support
- Wider strategies that help to improve the non-academic barriers to success (such as attendance, behaviour and social and emotional support)