Welcome to Costessey Primary School! Our vision is 'Ambition for All'. We strive to be a school where every individual achieves their personal best, academically and socially in a supportive but challenging environment.

Pupil Premium

Our Pupil Premium Funding


What is it?

The Pupil Premium Grant is additional funding schools receive for two separate policies:

 

  • raising the attainment of disadvantaged pupils of all abilities to reach their potential
  • supporting children and young people with parents in the regular armed forces

 

Who is eligible for it?

Costessey Primary School receives a Pupil Premium Grant for each child who is entitled to receive Free School Meals or who has been entitled to over the last six years, any ‘Looked After Children’ and any children who have ceased to be looked after by the local authority because of adoption, a special guardianship or child arrangements order (Post-Looked After Children).


What is this funding used for?

We aim for every single one of our pupil premium funded children to reach at least national expectations in all areas.

We also want the attendance of our pupil premium funded children to exceed the attendance of all non-disadvantaged pupils nationally.

We have targeted our additional pupil premium funding on:

  • Ensuring we provide first rate quality teaching
  • Targeted intervention where necessary
  • Pastoral care and well-being
  • Enriching experiences
  • Parental engagement

KEY PRINCIPLES FOR USING THE PUPIL PREMIUM GRANT AT COSTESSEY PRIMARY SCHOOL:

  • We have an academy wide commitment to raise achievement for pupils who are eligible for Pupil Premium and knows these pupils must make faster progress than non-eligible pupils and is determined to achieve this.

  • We never confuse eligible pupils with low ability and strive to instill  'ambition for all' in this group of pupils and support them to achieve the highest levels.

  • We create an overall package of support aimed to tackle the range of barriers including; attendance, behaviour, external factors, professional development focussing on improving outcomes for eligible pupils, improving the quality of teaching and learning, language acquisition, parental engagement, opportunities for first hand experiences and development of literacy and numeracy skills.

  • We use assessment systems to track and enable thorough analysis of data, reviewing the work in books to identify pupils who are under achieving and why.

  • Leaders direct resources and interventions to accelerate progress of eligible pupils and close the attainment gap compared to their peers.
  • We use data to carefully track the impact of targeted spending (interventions, projects or pedagogy) on attainment and progress of eligible pupils.
  • The Principal, Pupil Premium Leader and subject leaders have a clear overview of how funding is allocated and the difference it is making to the outcomes of pupils termly.
  • Leaders ensure class teachers, year group leaders and subject leaders know which pupils are eligible for Pupil Premium so they can take responsibility for accelerating progress and accountability is shared across the academy.
  • The Governing Body is ambitious for pupils and closely monitors the academy’s effectiveness in closing the gap between different groups of pupils. 

 Please click on our strategy statements below for further details: 

 

Current Strategy:

POLICIES/2023-24-PUPIL-PREMIUM-STRATEGY

 

Previous Strategies:

Policies/2022-23-Pupil-Premium-Strategy.pdf

Policies/2021-2022-Pupil-Premium-Strategy.docx

Policies/Costessey-Primary-PP-Strategy-2020-21-00000002.pdf

Documents/Costessey-Primary-PP-Strategy-2019-2020.pdf