Early Years Pupil Premium 

The Early Years Pupil Premium (EYPP) is extra funding for 3 and 4 year old children whose parents are in receipt of certain benefits or are in the local authority's care. We receive an extra 53 pence per hour (£302 per year) for every child who is eligible and will use this money to obtain training, additional staffing, or resources to enhance their learning and development.

In the academic year 22/23  

The number of children was 19                 Amount received: £6498

How we used the funding in the 22/23 year to support the development of our children:

Due to the Covid pandemic:- We continued our focus on Personal, Social and Emotional Development in order to support the children from its impact.

To enhance the teaching and learning of Personal, Social, and Emotional Development, staff training was provided. The money was used to fund external trainers who mainly focused on music and completed a project across the year. We were also able to purchase and provide a wide variety of musical resources for the classrooms. We also set up emotion stations across the setting to support children’s emotional wellbeing.

In the academic year 2021/2022

The funding has contributed towards forest school training for all staff and forest school resources and equipment.   From 01/04/22 this increased to 58 pence per hour (£342 per year)

 The number of children was 18               Amount received: £5,105.00

How we used the funding in the 20/21 year to support the development of our children:

The money was used to enhance the teaching and learning of Personal, Social and Emotional Development and Physical Development, and included the training of 2 staff to complete forest school training level 3 and purchasing resources to implement forest school activities in the setting. This enables all children to extend their learning and development physically as well as to build self-esteem and promote physical wellbeing.

In the academic year 20/21  

The number of children was  19                Amount received: £5738

How we used the funding in the 20/21 year to support the development of our children:

Due to the Covid pandemic, we used the money to enhance the teaching and learning of Personal, Social and Emotional Development, for example, purchasing resources to implement ‘Emotion Stations’ in each classroom to encourage children to recognise and speak about their feelings and express concerns.

Support home learning during periods of lockdown and for shielding children, for example, by making up individual home learning packs.