If your child is eligible, the setting will receive up to £570 to enhance the support they are offered with their nursery place.
Families are eligible for pupil premium if:
- They are receiving Income Support
- They are receiving income based Jobseekers Allowance and /or Employment and Support allowance
- If they are supported through the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
- If they receive State pension Credit
- They receive Child Tax credits
- They receive Universal Credit
- They are a Child Looked After by the state or has left care.
Please complete and return the EYR01 form to the nursery office.
Nursery schools do not receive any funding to provide free school meals for children who would be eligible for this when they are primary school age but you may be eligible for a holiday meals voucher.
We have used information from the analysis of our school pupil progress assessment data, local and national educational priorities to identify the following areas for enhanced support at nursery.
Our ambition is to positively engage all children in receipt of Early Years Pupil Premium in early education and have a successful start to their school journey.
Communication and Language
- Joint attention and listening skills
- Language comprehension – enriching vocabulary
- Phonological awareness – noticing, matching and manipulating sounds. Getting ready to read.
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
- Group participation – Learning to learn in a group
This enhanced support is facilitated by
- Additional teacher hours to plan and implement C&L focused small groups
- Additional teacher time to provide training to staff team for phonological awareness teaching at group times
- Engagement of specialist Early Years music teacher for additional group music sessions
- Additional support to overcome barriers to engagement with family / carers story and music sessions and library sessions.
- Additional resources to support engagement at group times
Where children in receipt of pupil premium funding also have identified additional needs their individual support plans will inform the most appropriate teaching priorities.