Pupil Premium

Pupil Premium and Meridian Trust Charter

The Government believes that Pupil Premium (PP) funding, which is additional to main school funding, is the best way to address the underlying inequalities between children who are eligible for free school meals (FSM), or who have been eligible in the last 6 years, and their peers.

Schools also receive funding for children who have been looked after continuously for more than six months and for those pupils who are the children of either currently serving members of HM forces or who have retired on a pension from the Ministry of Defence.  This ‘Service Premium’ is not classed as Pupil Premium but is allocated to help with pastoral support. 

The Pupil Premium (PP) and Service Premium effective 1st April 2024 are as follows:

The PP funding is used to help fund a range of educational benefits for pupils across the school such as targeted small group interventions, additional pastoral support, or inclusion in school activities such as extracurricular clubs, school trips and music lessons. 

It is a requirement that the school publishes both how the money was spent and how it is going to be spent in the coming year.

The strategy document can be viewed at the top of this page.

Sharnbrook Academy follows the Statement of Principals set out by Meridian Trust (https://www.cmatrust.co.uk/policies/).

In addition to the principals above Sharnbrook Academy has worked together with other Trust schools to create the unique ‘Meridian Trust Pupil Premium Charter’.  This charter maps out our intentions to ensure that the academic gap between pupils who are in receipt of the Pupil Premium, require SENDV support or require support for any other experiences that have historically shown to impact attainment and those who are non-disadvantaged narrows in all its schools.  The Trust PP Charter is the minimum guarantee to all pupils in receipt of Pupil Premium funding who attend a Meridian Trust school.   

Please contact Mrs Watt, Assistant Principal, if you have any queries regarding any of the above information: lwatt@sharnbrook.academy

Key Links

Meridian Trust Pupil Premium Statement of Principles