Beyond the funding that all schools receive, Wolvey school receives additional funding for certain children.

Pupil premium:

This is means tested and parents on low incomes can register their children so that the school gets this money. This money is focused on raising attainment and educational standards for those children either as individuals or as a group. 

Is your child eligible?

Primary schools are given a pupil premium for:

• Children in Reception to Year 6 who are currently entitled to free school meals based on their family income: £1345 per pupil, per school year
• Children in Reception to Year 6 who were previously entitled to benefits-based free school meals, even if they're no longer eligible: £1345 per pupil, per school year, for six years after they stopped qualifying for free school meals
• Children in care: £2345 per pupil, per school year
• Children previously in care who have been adopted, or who have a special guardianship order, a child arrangements order or a residence order: £2345 per pupil, per school yea

How is it spent?

Schools can choose how to spend their pupil premium money, as they are best placed to identify what would be of most benefit to the children who are eligible.

If you have a child at Wolvey you are entitled to:

• Free breakfast and an after-school club once a week for your child
• Free holiday camps  to be used throughout the year, this includes lunch
• Access to RockSteady Music tuition for the whole academic year
• Contributions towards all trips and activities in and out of school
• Money towards school uniform
• A hot meal once a day
• books/ pencil case/ equipment to support your child in their learning
• A book each half term to keep and take home

(Please see our separate form on a more detailed breakdown of how much we receive and how we spend it.)

How to claim your child’s pupil premium

All children who currently qualify for free school meals based on their family circumstances are entitled to pupil premium. This applies if you receive any of the following benefits:

• Universal credit (provided you have a net income of £7400 or less)
• Income support
• Income-based jobseekers’ allowance
• Income-related employment and support allowance
• Support under Part IV of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
• The guaranteed element of state pension credit
• Child tax credit, provided that you are not also entitled to working tax credit and have an annual gross income of £16,190 or less

Service Pupil Premium (SPP)

Pupils attract SPP if they meet one of the following criteria:

• one of their parents is serving in the regular armed forces (including pupils with a parent who is on full commitment as part of the full-time reserve service)
• they have been registered as a ‘Service child’ on a school census in the past six years, see note on the DfE’s ever 6 Service child measure
• one of their parents died whilst serving in the armed forces and the pupil receives a pension under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme or the War Pensions Scheme
• one of their parents is in the armed forces of another nation and is stationed in England

Children have to be flagged as Service children ahead of the autumn school census deadline. Service parents need to make the school aware of their status by talking to the head teacher or school admin staff.

How Service pupil premium differs from the pupil premium

The SPP is there for schools to provide mainly pastoral support for Service children, whereas the pupil premium (PP) was introduced to raise attainment and accelerate progress within disadvantaged groups.

Schools should not combine SPP with the main PP funding and the spending of each premium should be accounted for separately.

What do we use our Service pupil premium for?

• A six-week mental well-being tailored course taught by a member of staff who's family was in the service
• Military club
• Employment of staff to support our children within school e.g. smaller groups and interventions

Please note that SPP should not be used to subsidise routine school activity (trips, music lessons etc.).

Sports Grant

Wolvey school also receives additional funding known as 'sports grant' funding. This is partly funded by the recently introduced sugar tax and is aimed at increasing physical activity and sport within school. You can find out more about how this money is spent on our dedicated page.

Supporting Every Child Through Funded Music Lessons

At Wolvey CofE Primary School, we believe every child deserves the chance to discover their talents and thrive. As part of our commitment to equity and inclusion, all pupils eligible for Pupil Premium funding are offered fully paid music lessons.

This initiative ensures that financial barriers never limit access to high-quality arts education. By opening up these opportunities, we celebrate the individuality of each child and honour our vision of being a diverse, caring Christian community where everyone is valued and supported to flourish.

Music enriches confidence, creativity and wellbeing — and we are proud to provide this pathway for all our children to experience excellence.