What is Early Years Pupil Premium?
Early Years Pupil Premium (EYPP) is additional funding for early years pre-school settings to improve the education they provide for disadvantaged 3- and 4 year-olds including, but not restricted to, those adopted from care.
Each eligible child will receive £353.40 (in Primary Schools this increases to £1,320 per pupil). Spread across 38 weeks@15 hours (570 hours), this equates to 62p per hour per child extra. It is intended to help us try to close the attainment gap between the most disadvantaged pupils and their peers.
Who are our eligible children?
Eligibility criteria are that families need to meet one of the following criteria:
Eligibility will need to be checked annually to ensure circumstances haven’t changed.
Number of children eligible this term | Spring 23 - 37/62 children 60% |
Amount of EYPP received per pupil | £353.40 |
Expected EYPP income | £13,075.80 |
How will we use EYPP to overcome barriers in 2022-2023?
See table below for our 2022-2023 EYPP Strategy
What is our philosophy relating to ‘closing the gap’?
Our core values promote the achievement of all pupils. Therefore we believe that we should be seeking ways to improve outcomes for all children through individualised approaches that are timely and have impact (long term as well as short term). Children who are eligible for EYPP should not be stereotyped as having less potential to succeed.
Poverty and Wellbeing: World Health Organisation definition of health:
“Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”
• Hunger, fuel poverty, access to services
• Health issues facing our families / support and information about services and benefits / integrate services (eg Nursery nurse)
Early Years Pupil Premium for 2021-22 (last academic year)
What funding did we receive in 2021-22?
See table below
How the early years pupil premium allocation was spent:
Number of children eligible in 2021-22 | 53 (57% of the cohort) |
Amount of EYPP received per pupil | £302.10 |
Total EYPP income received | £16,011.30 |
The impact of that expenditure on eligible and other pupils
This year, Covid-19 has impacted upon the nature of spending of EYPP funding. Typically, we would prioritise first-hand experiences, visitors and visits as a spend but the restrictions around reducing risk of transmission have meant we could not provide as much of this type of activity as we would like.
Our data for July 2021 shows that children in receipt of EYPP made rapid and sustained progress up to exit, despite having some periods of disrupted nursery education. They made similar levels of progress as non-EYPP children. Most EYPP children left at expected levels of development (30-50 months secure) and some exceeding (40-60 months emerging and within). See below for more detail:
When is the next strategy review due?
March 2023
Early Years Pupil Premium averages (last 3 years)
EYPP figures fluctuate and increase across a school year (September - July)
We have lower numbers of children in Autumn Term and therefore lower EYPP. Numbers increase with a January intake and then increase again if we have an April intake. Please note these figures are FINANCIAL YEAR
Financial Year (April - March) |
Average EYFS Pupil Premium Amount (£302.10 per child) |
Number of EYPP children (July figures) |
Number of EYPP children (December figures) |
Number of EYPP children (March figures) |
Average % EYPP |
22/23 | £11,580 | 53 (57%) | 25 (60%) | 37 (60%) | 59% |
21/22 | £15,809 | 76 (72%) | 39 (55%) | 42 (49%) | 59% |
20/21 | £17,370 | 70 (64%) | 45 (58%) | 63 (65%) | 62% |
19/20 | £15,407 | 53 (58%) | 45 (65%) | 55 (57%) | 60% |
18/19 | £11,681 | 45 (41%) | 29 (58%) | 42 (60%) | 53% |
17/18 | £12,889 | 57 (38%) | 37 (64%) | 45 (45%) | 49% |