Our Finances
At St Katharine’s, we believe in being transparent about our finances. Our policies are designed to support our children and their growth. We manage our funds responsibly to ensure every child gets the best possible education.
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Pupil Premium Strategy
This statement details our school’s use of pupil premium (and recovery premium) funding for the 2024 to
2025 academic year, to help improve the attainment of our disadvantaged pupils.
It outlines our pupil premium strategy, how we intend to spend the funding in this academic year and the effect that last year’s spending of pupil premium had within our school.
Detail Amount
Pupil premium funding allocation this academic year £17,370
Pupil premium funding carried forward from previous years £0
Total budget for this academic year £17,370
At St Katharine’s Knockholt, we strive to ensure that all pupils, regardless of their background or the challenges they face, make good progress and achieve high attainment across all subject areas. The focus
of our pupil premium strategy is to support disadvantaged pupils to achieve that goal.
Although our pupil premium funding will be targeted at narrowing the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers, and enabling these pupils to achieve age-related expectations, in making provision for disadvantaged pupils, we recognise that not all pupils who receive free school meals, who are in the care of the Local Authority, or who are adopted, will have low ability. We focus on supporting these pupils to achieve their highest level.
High-quality teaching is central to our approach, with a focus on areas in which disadvantaged pupils require the most support. This is proven to have the greatest impact on closing the gap and at the same time will benefit the non-disadvantaged pupils in our school.
We recognise that disadvantaged children can face a wide range of barriers which can impact their learning.
Understanding our pupils, their families and barriers to learning is at the heart of our strategy to support disadvantaged pupils.
Sports & PE Premium
The Government has continued to provide additional funding for PE and school sport. The funding is allocated based on the number of pupils on roll. The sport funding can only be spent on sport and PE provision in schools.
Purpose of funding
Schools will have to spend the sport funding on improving their provision of PE and sport, but they will have the freedom to choose how they do this. The DfE has outlined 5 key indicators.
Key indicator 1:
The engagement of all pupils in regular physical activity – Chief Medical Officer guidelines recommend that primary school children undertake at least 30 minutes of physical activity a day in school
Key indicator 2:
The profile of PE and sport being raised across the school as a tool for whole school improvement
Key indicator 3:
Increased confidence, knowledge and skills of all staff in teaching PE and sport
Key indicator 4:
Broader experience of a range of sports and activities offered to all pupils
Key indicator 5:
Increased participation in competitive sport
Possible uses for the funding include:
hiring specialist PE teachers or qualified sports coaches to work alongside primary teachers when teaching PE
new or additional Change4Life sport clubs
paying for professional development opportunities in PE/sport
providing cover to release primary teachers for professional development in PE/sport
running sport competitions, or increasing participation in the school games
buying quality assured professional development modules or materials for PE/sport
providing places for pupils on after school sport clubs and holiday clubs.