Get extra funding for your early years provider
If your child is in early years education, your early years provider could be eligible for extra funding to help support your child.
Early Years Pupil Premium
From April 2015, nurseries, schools, childminders and other childcare providers have been able to claim extra funding through the Early Years Pupil Premium (EYPP) to support children’s development, learning and care. This funding is paid to us on an hourly basis, linked to claimed hours for entitled children. The annual value for a 15 hour place over a full year is £388.
Who can apply
You can apply for early years pupil premium if your child is aged 9 months to 2 years OR your child is aged 3 or 4 and you get 15 hours free childcare.
You must also get at least one of the following:
- Income Support
- income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
- income-related Employment and Support Allowance
- support under part six of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
- the guaranteed element of State Pension Credit
- Child Tax Credit (provided you are not also entitled to Working Tax Credit) and have an annual gross income of no more than £16,190
- Working Tax Credit run-on, which is paid for 4 weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit
- Universal Credit - your household income must be less than £7,400 a year after tax not including any benefits you get
You may also get early years pupil premium if your child is currently being looked after by a local authority in England or Wales or if your child has left care in England or Wales through:
- adoption
- special guardianship order
- a child arrangements order
How to apply
To apply for early years pupil premium speak to your childcare provider or local council.
What EYPP does for Windham Nursery
Barriers to learning
The barriers of learning are varied across the children eligible to the Early Years Pupil Premium and are addressed in a personalised way. As an Early Years setting, we have the freedom to choose how to spend the money to best support the children entitled to this additional funding. We believe by assessing the needs of individual children considering both their strengths and areas for development we can plan provision and experiences that will enable them to meet their next steps in learning.
We have a range of strategies in place for engaging with parents in order to ensure that we can work in partnership to achieve the best possible outcomes for children. This includes:
- An open door policy so that parents and carers are encouraged to talk about their child’s interests and progress on an ongoing basis so that any concerns can be dealt with promptly
- Curriculum meetings to discuss ‘planning in the moment’ and next steps for learning
- Termly parent meetings to discuss children’s progress and next steps
- Phone calls/ meetings with parents/carers to discuss particular issues and concerns
- Regular email communications
- Fortnightly newsletters
We are currently using the additional funding in the following ways:
- Staffing for interventions
- Provision of lunch club sessions
- Attendance at Little learners
- Jigsaw club
- ‘Chatterbox’ language programme for parents/carers
- Cultural capital enrichment opportunities e.g: visits from the farm, duck eggs, butterflies, drummers from around the world
- Resources to support particular interests of the child
Measuring the impact of EYPP
We are continually assessing and evaluating the children’s learning through interactions and observations during play. We also record the children’s attainment related to Birth to 5 matters. Other ways we measure and monitor the impact of EYPP include:
- Informal conversations at the start and end of a day
- Regular progress meetings of focus children
- Parental feedback on Tapestry
- Parental feedback on process
- Achievement of individual targets
- Progress related to provision mapping
- Conversations with other professionals (if applicable) working with individual children eligible for the EYPP
- Parent questionnaires
