Premium Allocations

Pupil Premium Strategy

The Pupil Premium was introduced in April 2011 and in 2012–13 individual schools were allocated funding for children from low-income families who were eligible for free school meals, looked after children and those from families with parents in the Armed Forces.

Pupil premium spending at Stanley Crook Primary School follows a three tiered approach – all of which are focused on removing barriers to pupils’ educational achievement, both academically and socially.

• High Quality Teaching – Money used to improve the curriculum opportunities for pupil premium pupils: more teaching; more targeted teaching and intervention; broader curriculum opportunities.
• Targeted Academic Support – Money used to ensure that the needs of pupil premium pupils are of strategic importance at leadership group level. In addition to quality teaching and targeted intervention, the school is intent upon identifying what support all pupil premium pupils need in the classroom: to identify subject specific needs and to ensure all staff are aware of their specific needs.
• Wider Strategies – Ensuring that pupil premium pupils have access to a broad range of opportunities (culturally and socially) which they may not usually have access to, e.g. cultural and social experiences such as Residential trips/ Music Tuition. This work is designed to encourage pupils to feel that the school values and cares for them and that coming to school is a good thing; they are not forgotten or passed over when special opportunities are presented. The more the pupils are in the school, the better their chances of achieving well.
• Engagement – Engaging more with parents and carers so that they take a fuller role in improving their children’s achievement

Stanley Crook Primary School has three core values: academic excellence, social justice and global futures. We work so that background is irrelevant to achievement and that aspiration is not limited by circumstance of birth. We want pupils to be reflective, inquiring, tolerant, positive and respectful of the needs of others. We give opportunities for leadership and active citizenship.

 Termly reviews will also be carried out – with the support of governors – to measure the impact of Pupil Premium spend against targeted outcomes.

• Curriculum Statement – Breadth and Balance

You can view or download our latest Pupil Premium Strategy Statement for 2025/2026 and find out more about how this funding has been used at our school.

PE Premium

The Government is providing funding to provide new, substantial primary school sport funding. This is known as the School Sports Grant.

This funding is being jointly provided by the Departments for Education, Health and Culture, Media and Sport, and will see money going directly to primary school head teachers to spend on improving the quality of sport and PE for all their children.  Schools must use the funding to make additional and sustainable improvements to the quality of PE and sport they offer.

This means that school uses the premium to:

• develop or add to the PE and sport activities that your school already offers
• make improvements now that will benefit pupils joining the school in future years

PE and Sport Premium Funding for 2026/27

• The 2026/27 allocation is transitional PE and sport premium funding. For schools with 17 or more eligible pupils, DfE calculates funding as £6,240 plus £10 for each pupil in Years 1 to 6, using the January 2026 census. With 108 eligible pupils, Stanley Crook Primary School’s planned allocation is £7,320.
• The grant must be used to make additional and sustainable improvements: it must build capacity and capability within the school and develop or add to existing PE, sport and physical activity provision.
• The full allocation must be spent within the 2026/27 academic year. Unspent funding cannot be carried beyond 31 July 2027, and the school must not pre-pay for goods or services to be delivered in a future academic year.
• The school will prioritise continuing professional development (CPD), monitor its effectiveness and use external coaches to develop staff knowledge and confidence, not as an ongoing substitute for teaching the existing PE curriculum.
• The grant will not be used for capital expenditure above the school/local authority de minimis threshold, PPA cover, the existing/core PE curriculum, staff PE kit, staff salaries that replace normal curriculum delivery, or core curriculum swimming. Eligible top-up swimming and water-safety support may be funded after core lessons where required.
• The school will complete the DfE digital expenditure reporting return and publish the required website report by 31 July 2027, including expenditure, impact, sustainability and Year 6 swimming and water-safety attainment.

Sustainability

The PE and sport premium improvements at Stanley Crook Primary School are sustainable because all spending decisions have been made with consideration for how they will benefit future pupils, with a focus on upskilling our whole staff workforce so they feel confident and able to lead a PE lesson independently. We have prioritised providing staff with continued professional development (CPD), mentoring, training and access to resources to ensure that the future quality of the teaching of PE, sport and physical activity is sustainable. This approach means that the improvements we’ve made will continue to have a positive impact on pupils’ physical activity and sporting opportunities long after the initial investment, as our staff now have the skills and confidence to deliver high-quality PE provision without ongoing reliance on external support.

Swimming, Water Safety and Self Rescue

Swimming is an important skill and can encourage a healthy and active lifestyle. All Local Authority schools must provide swimming instruction either in key stage 1 or key stage 2. The programme of study  sets out the expectation that pupils should be taught to:

• swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres
• use a range of strokes effectively [for example, front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke]
• perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations.

 At Stanley Crook Primary School we believe in allowing children time to develop water confidence and competence.

Children in School will start swimming lessons from Year 3 and receive regular lessons throughout Key Stage 2.

• In 2024-2025, 80% of children in Year 6 can confidently swim 25m unaided.
• 67% of year 6 children can use a range of strokes effectively.
• 100% of year 6 children can perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations.

This continues our consistently high achievement rate where results are significantly above national and local levels of pupils achieving the expected standard.

We treat each cohort as individuals and have used some of our Primary PE and Sports Premium funding for this academic year to provide additional provision for swimming booster sessions and Deep Water Training for our current Year 4, 5 and 6 cohort.

Visit our Physical Education section to read more about our PE Premium and Sport Curriculum.

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