Early Years Pupil Premium
The Early Years Pupil Premium (EYPP) is additional funding that is allocated to nurseries to support children from low income families. This includes families of looked-after children, families whose children are eligible for free school meals and children from service families.
During the financial year 2019-2020, 45 children were eligable for EYPP funding. This amounted to £8,157.
This was used in the following ways:
- Further development of resource provision to enhance and reflect children's interests, building on the nursery's 'Planning in the Moment' approach to curriculum delivery.
- Purchasing a wide range of new books and resources, with particularly reference to three priority areas;
- promoting gender equality and challenging stereotypes
- developing scientific knowledge, understanding and skills
- developing and supporting emotional resiliance and wellbeing
- Trips and outings, including theatre visits to see 'Huddle' and 'Aesop's Fables', as well as the South London Gallery.
- Duckling eggs that the children that the children observed hatching.
The children are assessed against the developmental stages set out in the Early Years' Foundation Stage curriculum. However, due to the coronavirus pandemic, this was disapplied until September 2020.