Premium Allocations

Pupil Premium

The Pupil Premium was introduced in April 2011 and is additional funding provided by the Department of Education to individual schools to support specific groups of children who are vulnerable to possible underachievement. These include pupils from low-income families who were eligible for free school meals, looked after children and those from families with parents in the Armed Forces. Funding is provide to “diminish the (attainment) difference” between children entitled to pupil premium and those classed as “other” (non-pupil premium).

Schools are free to make decisions on how to best spend their pupil premium funding but are accountable as spending must have a positive impact on overcoming educational barriers to learning.

Currently, 70% of our school population is entitled to pupil premium funding. There are children in every year group at Victoria Lane Academy, who are eligible for Free School Meals. These pupils generate Pupil Premium (a monetary amount paid into the school budget) and these pupils in our school are closely tracked and monitored throughout their school life to ensure they progress equally as well as their peers in school.

You can view or download our Pupil Premium allocation by clicking the link below and find out how this will be used at our school. Pupil Premium Strategy Statement 26-27

Previous Allocations

Sports Premium

The PE and Sport Premium is additional government funding provided to primary schools to improve the quality and breadth of PE, sport and physical activity for all pupils. It enables schools to develop staff knowledge and skills, increase participation in physical activity and sport, provide a wider range of sporting opportunities, support competitive sport and help ensure that all children, regardless of their background or ability, can enjoy and benefit from being active. The funding is intended to create improvements that are sustainable and have a lasting impact on pupils and future cohorts.

At Victoria Lane Academy, we use our PE and Sport Premium funding to enhance the opportunities available to our children and to support the development of high-quality PE, sport and physical activity across school. We carefully consider how the funding can have the greatest possible impact on participation, enjoyment, skills, health, wellbeing and personal development.

The current PE and Sport Premium funding arrangements (each school receives £16,000 plus an extra £10 per child in year 1-6) apply for the 2025–2026 academic year. The Government has announced that the existing PE and Sport Premium model will be replaced by a new approach from Spring 2027. A one-off PE Premium payment will support primary schools during the transition, but the existing funding arrangement is therefore not guaranteed to continue in its current form beyond this period. We will continue to use any funding available to us responsibly and strategically, while ensuring that the positive improvements made through the funding are sustainable for our children in the future.

You can view or download our Sports Premium allocation by clicking the link below and find out how this has been used at our school.

Previous Sports Premium Expenditure

You can view or download our Sports Premium allocation by clicking the link below and find out how this is being used at our school.

 

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