The Early Years Pupil Premium (EYPP) is an additional sum of money paid to childcare providers for children of families in receipt of certain benefits. This funding will be used to enhance the quality of their early years’ experience by improving the teaching and learning and facilities and resources, with the aim of impacting positively on your child’s progress and development. For more information, please visit https://www.gov.uk/get-extra-early-years-funding

Our intention is that all pupils, irrespective of their background or the challenges they face, make good progress and meet their child development milestones The focus of our pupil premium strategy is to support disadvantaged pupils to achieve that goal, including progress for those who are already high attainers.

We recognise the impact that Covid has had on young children’s development and will use the additional funding to support children’s language skills.

In the academic year 2023/2024, we will receive £3020.00. We will provide:

• Language intervention groups and Forest School sessions (led by a qualified Forest School practitioner) that provide rich opportunities to learn and use new language.
• We will also provide high quality story books for children to read at home with their parents.

We will regularly monitor children’s progress and the impact of our work through our OP&L observation and assessment system.