You can find here details of our pupil premium grant and spend for the current academic year 2021/22 and previous academic years.
PE and sport premium funding is also published here.
Pupil Premium Funding - School Year 2021/2022
The grant available from April 2021 to March 2022 is £601,490
The grant available from April 2020 to March 2021 is £582,390
The grant available from April 2019 to March 2020 was £581,380
Summary of Spending Areas | % of funding |
Enriching academic learning
| 50% |
Enriching curriculum learning
| 25% |
Enriching extra-curricular learning opportunities
| 25% |
PE Premium/Sports Grant
The government give extra funding to schools to be spent on sport in school.
Our Sports Grant for 2021/22 is £23,498
Our aim is to increase sporting opportunities for children regardless of their economic background or ability, and also to improve the quality of the provision they receive at no or very little cost to parents. Click below to read how we spend our PE funding.
Covid Catch Up Premium Funding
The funding allocation for The Orion was £30,260
There have been catch up boosters daily in every year group since March 8th 2021
In-school therapeutic support has been increased to support children who have been adversely affected emotionally throughout the pandemic
Swimming Achievement
Our Y6 children all benefitted from 2 weeks of afternoon swimming lessons where they took part in a crash course of lessons. They were unable to take part in swimming at school due to the first school Covid 19 closure in March 2020. The children all had 10 lessons. Every child made significant progress from their starting point. Some had not been swimming for 2 years due to Covid and some children were complete beginners in the water.
By the end of the 2 weeks the children were assessed.
51% of the cohort were able to swim 25 metres independently
17% of this cohort could swim 50 metres independently