Pupil Premium
Schools recieve the Pupil Premium Grant to support children from families who have received Free School Meals over the last six years or have been placed in Local Authority Care for at least one day. It is designed to help close the attainment and progress gap between children who are in receipt of the Pupil Premium Grant and others as there is a gap nationally. At the end of Primary School in July 2017 the gap between these two groups with regards attainment was 19% (BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-46541454 ).
If your family is in receipt of Universal Credit or some other benefits your child may be eligbible for the grant. The school governors decided that as part of the offer to families in receipt of the grant the school would fund the first 80% of all trips.
All schools need to report to parents and others about how the grant is spent and ours can be downloaded below.