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Pupil Premium Grant +

Spending the funding

he Pupil Premium Plus funding should be used to meet the specific needs of the child or young person which have been identified in the personal education plan. The spending must support the SMART targets set in the PEP. PPG+ should be used to provide additionality and should not be used to fund ordinarily available provision.

As well as addressing academic needs, social and emotional needs must also be considered.

This could include:

  • Learning support

    • Additional staff to support with individual or group work tuition
      This could be 1:1, paired, small groups etc

    • Homework club and support

    • Extra tuition or tutoring

    • Music lessons and equipment

  • Educational Resources

    • Learning resources that are not expected to be funded by the fostering allowance such as:

      • Textbooks

      • Revision Books

      • DVDs

      • ICT facilities including hardware and software

      • Apps

      • Materials for practical based subjects

    • Sensory Equipment

  • Emotional Health and Wellbeing

    • Larger school projects which may involve several looked after children such as a garden/environmental based project

    • Therapeutic interventions such as: Lego Therapy, Play Therapy, sensory or occupational therapy or buying in creative arts therapy

    • Team/confidence/esteem building courses or activities

    • Mentor support

    • A nurture room and group

    • 1:1 or small group attachment support

    • Emotional literacy and emotion regulation groups, including anger management

    • Providing calm boxes and staff to spend 1:1 time helping children to regulate themselves

    • Providing calm zones in classrooms and centrally within the school

    • Emotion coaching

  • Training for staff

    • Understanding the reasons for the challenges that many children face

    • Attachment and Trauma

    • Specific support and interventions

    • Training midday supervisors to provide structured play at break times

    • Appointing and training an Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA)

    • understanding and supporting executive functioning skill development in the classroom and on the playground

    • Emotion Coaching

  • Activities

    • Summer School

    • Sports clubs or other activities

    • After school clubs-music, sport arts, drama

    • Lunchtime clubs with opportunities to practice social skills

    • Spending time preparing children for change in advance e.g. using social stories or visual timetables

    • Equipment for playground activities

The PAC Pupil Premium Plus guide has some useful ideas for additional uses of PPG+ to meet the needs the children or young people in your care.