Early Years Pupil Premium
The Early Years Pupil Premium (EYPP) is additional Government funding to help raise attainment for disadvantaged 3 and 4 year olds, if they meet specific eligibility criteria, and close the gap between the most and least advantaged children. All parents/careers are provided with information regarding eligibility for EYPP during the Nursery induction process.
At St Thomas Centre Nursery School, we support all children to reach their full potential. For those children who are entitled to Early Years Pupil Premium, we carefully consider the most appropriate way to spend the allocated funding to overcome barriers and meet the needs, strengths and interest of individual children. Listening to and taking account of the feelings and wishes of all our children, including our Looked After children, helps us to identify how we will bets support each child. Our detailed knowledge of individuals, alongside our assessment data and research findings informs our approach and identifies how we will measure the effect of this funding.
At St Thomas Centre Nursery we use EYPP to support Communication and Language development and Literacy Development. This will include
- Visit to the Theatre
- Drama and Language groups visiting the nursery - Language Alive
- Library Take home books to support home learning
- Cost towards language groups to develop Speaking and Listening skills differentiated to children's ability.
Early Years Pupil Premium Impact 2018 - 19
The majority of Pupil Premium eligible children accessed places from 2 years old through the Governments 2 year funding and benefited from 5 terms at nursery. The majority of these children also met the eligibility criteria for full time provision in their nursery year.
Our assessments show that the pupil premium children do reach the levels in the three prime areas in line with the cohort.
| BASELINE | Early Years Pupil Premium | Cohort |
| Well Below and Below age expected attainment | 46% | 65% |
| In line and Above age expected attainment | 54% |
35% |
| YEAR END | Early Years Pupil Premium | Cohort |
| Well Below and Below age expected attainment | ||
| In line and Above age expected attainment |
Early Years Pupil Premium Impact 2017 - 18
| BASELINE | Early Years Pupil Premium | Cohort |
| Well Below and Below age expected attainment | 56% | 59% |
| In line and Above age expected attainment | 44% |
41% |
| YEAR END | Early Years Pupil Premium | Cohort |
| Well Below and Below age expected attainment | 7% | 29% |
| In line and Above age expected attainment | 93% |
71% |
