EarlyYears Pupil Premium
School Year 2026-27
If your child is in early years education, your early years provider could be eligible for extra funding to help support your child.
Your child’s early years education provider could get up to £655.50 per year to help with your child’s education. This will be paid direct to your provider.
Who can apply
Children are eligible for EYPP if they receive at least one hour of free early years entitlements provision and their parent or carer receives one or more of the following benefits:
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income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
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income-related Employment and Support Allowance
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support under part 6 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
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the guaranteed element of Pension Credit
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Universal Credit, if the parent or carer’s annual net household income is less than £7,400, not including any benefits
If the child was formerly looked after by a local authority in England or Wales through adoption, a special guardianship order or a child arrangements order, they are also eligible.
Age EYPP entitlement
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9-month-olds to 2-year-olds Payable on the working parent entitlement
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2-year-olds Payable on either the entitlement for families in receipt of additional support or the working parent entitlement. Should be paid against the former first, if the child is eligible
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3- and 4-year-oldsPayable on the universal 15 hours’ entitlement only
For children who meet the income eligibility criteria, EYPP is paid per hour of early education entitlement they receive.
A child who is currently being looked after by a local authority in England or Wales and receives at least one hour of free early years entitlement provision is also eligible for EYPP. For these children, local authorities are required to pay EYPP for the full 570 hours per year, regardless of the number of hours of free early years entitlements the child receives. See Section 9 of the funding operational guide.
How to apply
To apply for early years pupil premium speak to your childcare provider or local council.
Disability access fund
Your child’s early years provider could get £975.00 or more per year to help with their education and support.
This will be paid direct to your early years provider.
You can apply to get disability access funding if your child is aged 3 or 4 and you’re receiving both:
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15 hours free childcare - you do not need to use all of your hours to be eligible
To apply for disability access funding speak to your childcare provider or local council.
National data and research continues to show that children who are eligible for free school meals tend to do less well than their peers. Most recently, only 51.5% of children eligible for free school meals achieved a good level of development at the end of reception, compared with 72% of other children—leaving a persistent attainment gap of over 20 percentage points. The Early Years Pupil Premium provides us with extra funding in order to support closing this gap. It is well researched that high-quality early education influences how well a child does throughout their entire school career. Hillview Nursery School wants to make the most of this additional funding to ensure no child is left behind."
For the Autumn Term 2026 each eligible child provides Hillview Nursery School with £655.50 per year.
Term Number of children Amount
Autumn 2026 27 £655.50 per eligible child
Total £17,698.50
Term Number of children Amount
Summer 2026 22 £577.00 per eligible child
Total £8,536.00
Term Number of children Amount
Summer 2025 24 £577.00 per eligible child
Total £9,312.00
Term Number of children Amount
Autumn 2024 18 £388.00 per eligible child
Total £6,984.00
The purpose of the fund is to ‘diminish differences’ often associated with children eligible for early years pupil premium. This is carried out in a number of ways at Hillview Nursery School. Children arrive in Hillview Nursery School often below the expected level of development, and so ongoing assessment is used in order to identify individual children’s needs. The main barriers to educational achievement that the disadvantaged children in our school face are:
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Below aged rated expectation in language and communication
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Below aged rated expectation in social interactions
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Below aged rated expectation in emotional development
Small intervention groups such as communication, social, and language groups are used in order to improve communication skills and social interactions for our disadvantaged as well as other children needing extra support. The groups are held twice a week, and are evaluated in order to plan effectively for the following week’s group. Evidence is collated in order to track children’s progress and identify how the gap is narrowing in attainment.
Equality Objective
To improve attendance and outcomes, particularly in the prime areas of learning
Why we have developed this objective:
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To improve wellbeing, self esteem and social status
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To provide additional support for communication and language development.
What we are doing to meet this objective:
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EYPP children are offered free lunches and up to 15hours additional provision.
Measuring children’s outcomes and progress against the following criteria:
1. High wellbeing and involvement levels overtime, monitored and reviewed through pupil progress checks by SLT
2. Improved attendance and in the spring term to achieve 96% attendance. This is to be monitored by admin team by producing half termly reports.
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