Early Years Pupil Premium

 Nurseries, schools, childminders and other childcare providers are able to claim extra funding through the Early Years Pupil Premium to support children’s development, learning and care.

National data research tells that children eligible for free school meals tend to do less well compared with other children. The Early Years Pupil Premium is to provide us with extra funding to close this gap.

The Early Years Pupil Premium provides an extra 60 pence per hour for three and four year old children whose parents are in receipt of certain benefits or who were formally in local authority care but who have left care because they were adopted or were subject to a special guardianship or child arrangements order. This means an extra £342 a year for each child taking up the full 570 hours funded entitlement to early education. This additional money could make a significant difference to us.

AIMS

At McMillan Nursery School, we have high aspirations for all our children and strive to ensure that each child reaches their full potential. In order to achieve this, early identification of barriers to learning is of paramount importance. We therefore identify any barriers and then plan how to overcome these, providing targeted, personalised learning ensuring children make rapid progress in order to ‘narrow the gap’. We recognise that not all pupils who are socially disadvantaged qualify for EYPP. We therefore ensure that the funding also supports any children who are in need of intervention to overcome barriers to learning.

All our work is aimed to accelerate progress to reduce the attainment gap, particularly in the prime areas of the EYFS curriculum, to improve attendance and to work closely with parents to support and work in partnership in their child’s learning

EYPP GOVERNOR

Our EYPP governors are  Mrs. Ruth Thompson and Mrs Claire Whitehead.  Both Governors regularly visit nursery to look at how we are using the EYPP funding allocation and the impact it is having on eligible and other children.

Early Years Pupil Premium Strategy Statement - 2023-2024