Pupil Premium

The Pupil Premium Grant was introduced in April 2011 and is funding to improve education outcomes for disadvantaged pupils in schools in England. Evidence shows that disadvantaged children generally face additional challenges in reaching their potential at school and often do not perform as well as other pupils.

Evidence suggests that pupil premium spending is most effective when schools use a tiered approach, targeting spending across the following three key areas:

  1. developing high-quality teaching, for example through professional development and recruitment and retention
  2. providing targeted academic support, such as one-to-one or small group tuition
  3. tackling non-academic barriers to academic success, such as difficulties with attendance, behaviour and social and emotional wellbeing

Schools must show how they’re using their pupil premium funding by publishing an online statement about how they use their funding and the impact it has on the attainment of disadvantaged pupils.

Click the link below to read our current strategy (which is the first year of our new 3 year strategy and includes a review of the final year of our previous 3 year strategy):



Click the link below to see information about the final year of our previous 3 year strategy:

Click the link below to see information about the first 2 years of our 3 year strategy:

OUR SCHOOL

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@St Mary's Cockerton CE Primary School

This morning, children in Classes 3, 4 and 5 had the opportunity to take part in the My First Love: Maths zoom. The children completed work on averages, finding the mean and mode. We discussed how Maths helps careers and how we use Maths in every day life.

Our Christmas disco was such a success that we're having an Easter disco! The children will not need to bring any money to the disco as the payment via Compass beforehand includes a drink and snack.

Mrs Huscroft will arrange a mini disco for Nursery during the day!

Congratulations to our fabulous choir who performed ‘You Can Fly’ from Peter Pan at the annual Darlington Mayor’s Song Contest this evening.
As they were so adorable, the judges created a Special Award called the Judges Award for Cuteness. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🏆🏆🏆