Pupil Premium is an additional government grant which is added to the main funding that schools receive in their annual budgets.

Pupil Premium funding is allocated to:

• Pupils who are eligible for free school meals, or who have been eligible at some time in the past 6 years (FSM)
• Pupils whose parents are in the armed services (Service)
• Looked after children (LAC)
• Children who have been adopted from care (Post LAC)

The aim of Pupil Premium funding is to support eligible children who may be vulnerable to underachievement and to address any attainment gaps. As well as focusing on academic achievement, it may also be appropriate to provide support to nurture their well-being and to provide these children with access to a wide variety of enriching experiences.

If you think your child may be eligible for free school meals click here to apply.

Pupil Premium Strategy Statement 2025-2026

Previous Pupil Premium Outcomes & Statements

• Pupil Premium Strategy Statement 2024-2025
• Pupil Premium Strategy Statement 2023-2024
• Pupil Premium Strategy Statement 2022-23
• Pupil Premium Strategy Statement 2021-2022

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Catch Up Premium

In June 2020 the government announced £1 billion of funding to support children and young people to catch up on missed learning caused by coronavirus (COVID19). This is especially important for the most vulnerable pupils and pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds who we know have been most affected.

• Catch-up Funding 2020-2021

• Sports Premium

  At St. John Bosco School, we recognise the contribution of PE to the health and well-being of the children. We believe that an innovative, varied PE curriculum and extra-curricular opportunities have a positive influence on the concentration, attitude and academic achievement of all our children. Our Primary School Sport’s Funding enables us to continue and extend our provision through employing additional sports professionals, entering into more competitive sports competitions and training our staff to deliver in-house quality PE sessions.

  Primary School’s Sports Funding

  Click here for the Department of Education link to the Primary School’s Sports Funding page.

  What is the Sports Premium?

  The government provided funding of £150 million per annum for the academic years 2013/14, 2014/15 and 2015/16 to provide new and substantial primary school sport funding. Recently the government have committed to funding the primary school Sports Premium up until 2020 – an investment worth £750 million.
  The funding is being jointly provided by the Departments for Education, Health and Culture, Media and Sport, and will see money going directly to primary school budgets to spend on improving the quality of sport and PE for all our children. Each school will receive £8,000 plus an extra £5 per pupil each year for the next two years

  Purpose of the funding

  Schools have to spend the sport funding on improving their provision of PE and sport, but they will have the freedom to choose how they do this.

  Possible uses of the funding include:

  • Hiring specialist PE teachers or qualified sports coaches to work alongside primary teachers when teaching PE
  • Paying for professional development opportunities in PE/sport
  • Providing cover to release primary teachers for professional development in PE/sport
  • Running sport competitions, or increasing participation in the school games
  • Buying quality assured professional development modules or material for PE/sport
  • Providing places for pupils on after school sport clubs and residential visits

  View our Sports Premium

  •  Evidencing the impact of the Primary PE & Sport Premium 2023-2024 (PDF)
  •  Evidencing the impact of the Primary PE & Sport Premium 2022-2023 (PDF)

   Reporting PE & sport premium grant expenditure – funding allocation (PDF)