Strange situation Pupil Premium Funding

[rackhampearl]

Ok so this is gonna be a rather long post. My husband earns around 70k a year and I am a housewife. We live in West Yorkshire. We have two Children (7&3) 1 in Nursery and 1 in Year 2. When youngest started Nursery earlier on in 2018 about a month into her enrolment I was asked to sign a form because she had been granted some funding to help make nursery a better experience for her. They said that she had been the only child selected for this. I didn't know what this meant and just thought it was like a pot luck type system and they asked what I would like it to go towards. Still confused I said just do what you like with it, DD is 3, nursery is already fun for her. Didn't think anything of it and then at Christmas time a welfare officer phoned me and said that all the food collected at Harvest Festival was going to be turned into food hampers and donated back into the community and she would like DD (7) to have one. I was abit and said 'oh is it for families that struggle abit at Christmas because we have it all sorted' she said no not at all I just wanted to put DD name forward. This WO really likes DD so I just thought it could be that and didn't think much of it. When the Christmas Hamper arrived on 23rd we already had an abundance of Christmas stock so we advertised it on Facebook and it went back out to a family in the community. Forgot about it. Then in the last 2 month DD (7) has had letters home for her to join after school booster lessons in Maths and Reading. The Maths one i didn't think anything of because it doesn't seem to be her strongest subject but with the reading one I was like ??? She's 7 and she reads a whole lot of books, Jacqueline Wilson and Dahl, Rowling ect. She literally whizzes through books. So I thought surely this is a mistake, I'm always getting emails from the school about how good her reading is. So I took it to her teacher who couldn't really give me a straight answer when I asked if she was struggling. I said I'm concerned because it's looking to us like she's not performing at school like she is at home and would like to get to the root cause of it. She kind of palmed me off anyway and said she would talk to me at Parents Evening which was today. So i attended the meeting and a senior teacher saw me and said she understood that I had called in about the reading booster class (I didn't, I saw the teacher in the playground but just misunderstood) I said yes, I am confused and worried about DD performance at school if she needs all this extra help but obviously happy for her to attend I would just like to understand why her work is different at school. She went on to explain that she's not struggling at all! And that they get given a list of children who need extra attention and guidance and get funding allocated to them for these extra classes! They were often granted to children in underprivileged families. I was like And then remembered the nursery thingwith DD (3) I said I was so baffled as to why my children were eligible for this as we don't even qualify for child tax credits, not in receipt of any benefits. She said she would look into this for me but I must have signed a form regarding PPF, I know this is impossible because I struggle to remember to fill in the most basic school forms (trips, school milk ect) I always end up calling the office and paying via phone/verbal consent. I'm really unorganised. I've been thinking about it all day. What does this mean? Has anyone else had this experience? How do I get my children's names off this system that believes they're eligible for this funding. We are happy to pay for what they need regarding education. And if I can contact whoever it is in the system will they be chasing us up for all the funding they've given for DDs? I'm so confused. Any advise would be so appreciated.

[hazeyjane]

I thought IDACI supplement only applied to the amount received by EYPP children?

[admission]

There are significant differences on funding between EYFS and main school funding.
In mainstream school, (not EYFS) Pupil Premium funding is based on whether the parents are able to claim free school meals or not, though there has just been a minor change around the implementation of the new rules for tax credits etc.

IDACI data is used as part of the new national funding formula under the deprivation indicator to direct funding towards schools who have pupils from low income areas. Whether individual LAs wish to use IDACI data in their current funding formulas is up to them. They can use what they want till 2021 as deprivation indicators

[BubblesBuddy]

Lola: PP spending on your DC might not be immediately obvious to you. Most schools don’t discuss the spending with parents in any detail. However schools must publish, on their web sites, how the money is spent and whether educational standards of these pupils has been raised. This money is all about “closing the gap”. Spending all of it on existing staff to do admin would be unusual. However schools must look at the reasons why pupils need help and determine what the most effective help would be. Does their report say what they actually did with the money in more detail? What info is given about raising standards and closing the gap? PP children don’t necessarily get free trips or music lessons if that won’t close the gap. Money must be targeted appropriately. If it isn’t, Ofsted will commenting adversely when they visit.