Supporting every child to achieve

At Brierley Hill Primary School, our ambition is that every child achieves highly, regardless of background or circumstance.

The Pupil Premium is additional government funding provided to schools to improve educational outcomes for disadvantaged pupils. At Brierley Hill, we do not assume that disadvantage automatically means lower attainment. Instead, we identify the specific barriers affecting individual pupils and groups and use funding where additional support can make a genuine difference.

Our approach is built around a simple question: what difference is this making to pupils?

We prioritise excellent teaching, secure foundational knowledge, strong attendance and carefully targeted support. We also ensure that financial or other barriers do not prevent children from participating fully in the curriculum and wider life of the school.

Our Approach

Our Pupil Premium strategy prioritises:

• consistently high-quality teaching across an ambitious curriculum
• securing the foundational and prerequisite knowledge pupils need to access future learning successfully
• precise academic support where assessment identifies a specific need
• strong reading, communication, vocabulary and mathematical fluency
• improving attendance where lost learning time is a barrier
• supporting pupils with additional needs without lowering curriculum ambition
• removing barriers to enrichment, trips, clubs and wider opportunities
• developing confidence, independence, belonging and participation in school life

We continually evaluate whether our strategy is working through assessment, pupils' work, attendance, pupil voice, classroom evidence and wider participation.

The test is not simply whether funding has been spent or an intervention has taken place. We want to know what pupils now know, remember and can do better as a result.

About Pupil Premium Funding

Pupil Premium funding is allocated by the government to support eligible pupils, including children who are currently eligible for free school meals or have been eligible in recent years, looked-after and previously looked-after children, and eligible children from service families.

The amount of funding and eligibility criteria are set nationally and can change. Current information is available directly from the Department for Education:

Pupil Premium: DfE Guidance

Our 2024-2027 Pupil Premium Strategy

Our current three-year strategy sets out the barriers we have identified for disadvantaged pupils, how funding is being used to address these barriers, the evidence informing our decisions and how we evaluate impact.

2026/27 is the third and final year of Brierley Hill's current 2024-2027 strategy.

The strategy is reviewed and updated annually so that our decisions continue to respond to pupils' needs and evidence of what is making the greatest difference.

Current Strategy

Pupil Premium Strategy 2024-2027 | Year 3: 2026/27

Previous Strategy Updates

To provide transparency across the full three-year strategy cycle, previous annual updates are available below

Accountability and Review

Our Pupil Premium strategy is developed and implemented by the Senior Leadership Team and scrutinised by the Governing Body.

Leaders review implementation throughout the year and evaluate the impact on disadvantaged pupils through achievement, curriculum learning, attendance, participation and independence.

Our Governing Body considers whether resources remain focused on the most significant barriers and challenges leaders about the difference the strategy is making to pupils.

Ultimately, our measure of success is not how much we have done, but the difference our work has made to the children who need it most.