Pupil Premium
Our school recognises that all pupils, regardless of their background, should have equal access to a curriculum which will enable them to reach their potential. The pupil premium is a Government initiative that targets extra money to pupils from deprived backgrounds, which, research shows; underachieve, compared to their peers.
The Government have used pupils entitled to Free School meals as an indicator for derivation, and have deployed a fixed amount of money to schools per pupil, based on the number of pupils eligible for free school meals. Looked After Children and those of Armed Service Personnel are also eligible for this increased funding. The Government are not dictating how schools should spend this money, but are clear that schools will need to employ the strategies that they know will support these pupils to increase their attainment, and ‘narrow the gap’ between their attainment and the attainment of other pupils.
The identified barriers and challenges for our children are:
- Poor speaking, listening and communication skills on entry to EYFS
- More able disadvantaged pupils do not achieve as well as non-disadvantaged pupils
- Disadvantaged children’s wellbeing is poor and the households in which they live have poor aspirations and employment rates are low. Many families face generational unemployment.
- Disadvantaged children’s attendance rates are traditionally not as high as their non-disadvantaged peers
The school leaders will be monitoring the impact of the spending plan throughout the academic year through, good or better quality teaching, termly work scrutiny, pupil progress/moderation challenge meetings, as well as monitoring of attendance and strategies to support with input from the Education Welfare Officer. The impact of the monitoring process is then reported to governors termly via the head teachers report as well as the self evaluation review information for trustees.
The governors monitor the impact through governor challenge meetings, the reports are presented to the termly local governing body meeting.
Below are details of our Pupil Premium policy and Spending Plans.
Pupil Premium spending plan 2025-2026
Sports Premium
At Ward Green Primary School we firmly believe that sustainable improvements to the quality of PE and sport is fundamental to developing outcomes for our pupils.
We aim to use the Primary PE and Sport Premium to:
• Develop and/or improve the PE and sport activities that we offer
• Build capacity and capability within the school to ensure that improvements made now will benefit pupils joining the school in future years.
We use the Sports Premium Grant to raise standards of all of our children in Physical Education by providing :-
- High quality sports sessions led by highly qualified PE teachers or sports coach through high quality teaching and learning.
- Effective lesson planning and curriculum provision mapping as part of the P.E curriculum team.
- Monitoring and evaluation of progress of pupils through regular assessment.
- Professional quality assured teaching modules & materials for PE and sport which includes sports equipment and resources.
Healthy Active Lifestyle Choices
- School based Health programmes and intervention strategies, through liaisons with the school nurse and learning mentor, these programmes have been recognised through the Healthy school award.
- Promote and encourage local activity clubs during the holidays.
- Extra-curricular clubs provided on a weekly basis.
- Promotion of Walk/Scooter or bike to school initiatives – bronze award achieved.
- Healthy snack provision in foundation to give addition healthy food choices.
- Lunchtime staff deliver and model an inclusive programme of activities i.e. basket ball, skipping and games during play on KS1 and KS2 playgrounds.
Competitive School Sport: Increasing pupils’ participation in extra-curricular sport
- Inclusive competitive opportunities (disability/SEN) – Trained staff deliver high quality PE games/tournaments in our school cluster of schools.
- Support with intra and inter school competition co-ordination and delivery. Funding of sports co-ordinator to run and organise intra and inter school competitions.
- Organised competitions at local/borough level. Funding of sports co-ordinator to run and organise intra and inter school competitions. Liaise with other schools in the local area. Organise opportunities for children to visit other schools.
- After school sports clubs which provide high quality additional sports facilities.
- Sports activities during breakfast club ensuring children are ready for learning at the start of the day.
Priorities for 2025-26
- Further develop quality of teaching & learning of Physical education through mentoring & coaching plus development of a PE curriculum team.
- Develop a broader range of extra-curricular activities.
- Develop links with local schools who are members of the local Sports Pyramid. A full program of inter schools competitions are planned including, cross country, netball, hockey, boccia and basketball.
- Develop healthy lifestyle choice initiatives through walk/scooter or bike to school, road safety, healthy breakfast club options.
- We pledge to provide inclusive, accessible sporting opportunities and experiences that support our pupils’ personal development—enabling them to grow as self-aware, empathetic, and responsible individuals.
- Through a wide range of adapted and mixed‑ability activities, we aim to ensure every student, regardless of gender, ability, identity, neurodiversity, or background, can participate fully and feel valued.
- Year 4 pupils learn to swim through an annual programme of swimming lessons.
- Sports coaches incorporate daily exercise sessions during breakfast club, and lunchtime.
- Weekly sports clubs are available after school to support our extra-curricular provision.
- Engage with local sports clubs to increase children’s involvement in attending clubs in the community i.e. local cricket/football.
