This information lays out how Malet Lambert uses and plans to use the allocated recovery premium grant funding to support pupils whose education has been impacted by the pandemic. This had a huge impact on disrupting young people’s learning across the country and in response, the Government has continued to fund pupils in helping them to catch up and reduce the impact that the pandemic had.
‘This is a time-limited grant providing over £300m of additional funding for state-funded schools in the 2021 to 2022 academic year and £1bn across the 2022 to 2023 and 2023 to 2024 academic years. It is focused on pupil premium eligible pupils and pupils in specialist settings such as special schools, special units and pupil referral units (PRUs). This is because of the additional impact of the pandemic on these students.
Please see the link to the www.gov.uk/government/publications/recovery-premium-funding/recovery-premium-funding
School funding allocations were calculated on a pupil by pupil basis, providing Malet Lambert with a total of £47,560 for last academic year (2021-22), which worked out at £145 for each eligible pupil.
Schools are able to use the funding in ways that best suits their pupils and as a result, we have used the funding for the following:
Teaching and whole school strategies: