The Pupil Premium Grant (PPG) is funding allocated to schools to enable them to provide additional support for their disadvantaged pupils. Nationally, statistics show that students who are in receipt of the Pupil Premium do less well than their peers in external exams. The aim of the grant is to help close the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers.

The Government believes that Pupil Premium, (funding in addition to main school funding) is the best way to address the current underlying inequalities between children eligible for Free School Meals (FSM) and their peers. The funding helps to tackle those inequalities of the students who need it most. We as an organisation fully support this initiative.

The Pupil Premium is allocated to Furrowfield School to work with students who have either been registered for free school meals at any point within the last six years, children who have been on Gateshead Local Authority’s looked after children register (and have been registered continuously for more than six months), and children of service personnel.