The Pupil Premium is allocated to schools for children of statutory school age from low-income families who are known to have been eligible for Free School Meals (FSM) at any point in the last six years, or have been looked after, adopted from care or left care under special guardianship, residence or child arrangement orders. It is also available for children whose parents are currently serving in the armed forces.

At Woodford we use our Pupil Premium funding in lots of ways to ensure that the gap in engagement, attainment and progress between advantaged and disadvantaged students continues to narrow. A number of the areas where pupil premium funding is spent is below:

• High quality teaching, training and resources to ensure that students get the best possible access to subject specialist teaching and curriculum resources.
• Enhancing the super curricular and extracurricular offer and ensuring we can subsidise these experiences for those who need it
• Strategies across the school to promote good attendance and punctuality
• Providing subject specific materials to support spaced practice or independent learning or homework completion
• Providing additional resources to ensure that students achieve, belong and thrive
• Providing independent careers guidance and fair access to a range of progression information
• Targeted tuition/ peer tutoring where needed

If your child is studying at the school and is on our Pupil Premium register you will receive a letter by the end of September informing you of this fact. If you do not receive a letter and believe your daughter may qualify for free school meals or be eligible for the Pupil Premium in some other way, please read the eligibility criteria in this section of the website.