Pupil Premium

Highfields Academy receives pupil premium funding under the following categories of eligibility:

• pupils registered as eligible for free school meals (FSM) at any point in the last 6 years
• pupils identified in the January 2016 school census or the alternative provision census as having left local authority care as the result of adoption, a guardianship or child arrangements order; or otherwise in local authority care recorded as both eligible for FSM in the last 6 years and as being looked after (or as having left local-authority care)

Pupil premium funding must be used for purposes which supporting closing of the attainment gap between eligible and non-eligible pupils. Examples of the uses of the pupil premium in Spencer Academies Trust schools include:

• Additional one-to-one and small-group support for eligible children
• Funding extra teaching assistants to work with classes
• Supporting delivery of catch-up and booster sessions before and after school
• Running a breakfast club to improve attendance
• Funding additional help such as speech and language therapy or family community support

The free school meal eligibility form can be accessed . Completing the eligibility criteria allows an application to be made on behalf of parents who believe that their child may have the right to pupil premium funding.