Pupil Premium including Service Pupil Premium

Pupil premium is funding to improve education outcomes for disadvantaged pupils in schools in England. Evidence shows that disadvantaged children generally face additional challenges in reaching their potential at school and often do not perform as well as other pupils.

Service pupil premium is additional funding for schools, but it is not based on disadvantage. It has been combined into pupil premium payments to make it easier for schools to manage their spending.

The documents below show how pupil premium funding is allocated within our school. The strategy is then reviewed regularly throughout the year to ensure spending is having maximum impact for all our children. 

Full details stating how much is allocated per child and guidance to schools on how this funding can be spent can be found on the DfE website. 

PE and Sports Premium

Physical activity has numerous benefits for children and young people’s physical health, as well as their mental wellbeing (increasing self-esteem and emotional wellbeing and lowering anxiety and depression), and children who are physically active are happier, more resilient and more trusting of their peers. Ensuring that pupils have access to sufficient daily activity can also have wider benefits for pupils and schools, improving behaviour as well as enhancing academic achievement. The PE and sport premium helps our school to achieve this commitment.

Swimming Information:

Year 6 pupils (2023 - 2024)

• 75% can swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres
• 75% can use a range of strokes accurately
• 75% can perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations

SWERL Project 2022-2023

In March 2022, SEN Officers in Oxfordshire invited schools, Edith Moorhouse being one of those schools, to become part of the OCC-funded pilot on ‘well-being and emotional resilience in learning’ with UCL (SWERL). SWERL is a knowledge-exchange (KE) programme, bringing together research and practitioner expertise to: 

SWERL is a knowledge-exchange (KE) programme, bringing together research and practitioner expertise to: 

• Develop a systematic whole school approach to wellbeing and mental health through scrutiny of school routines, understanding staff support and training needs and examining effectiveness of interventions, policies and communication systems.

• Implement creative ideas such as new approaches to playtime; build better understanding between staff members in different roles and explore lesson starters to reduce anxiety 

• Use a graduated response to need to support early identification of mental health needs

• Equip professionals with the evidence-base for improving their everyday professional practice and working collaboratively to apply this knowledge to each unique setting

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/departments-and-centres/centres/centre-inclusive-education/supporting-wellbeing-emotional-resilience-and-learning-swerl