I like how you provided the children with computers.
PARENT
You have supported my girls throughout. I am very pleased.
PARENT
Providing food, money and vouchers has been a great help, thank you so much, very grateful.
PARENT
You have made a pandemic bearable and less stressful.
PARENT
Making sure we have: laptops, healthy food for our children, sanitary products and lined paper. I don’t think you could have done more.
PARENT
I’m glad I chose your school for my daughter.
PARENT

Pupil Premium

The Government provides academies and schools with additional funding to help reduce the inequalities and gaps in attainment between those students who are on free school meals (or have been in in the last 6 years) and their peers. This funding is called the Pupil Premium.

Every academy and school can select how they chose to use their Pupil Premium allocation, as they are best placed to assess what additional provision should be made for students. Pupil Premium funding was first introduced in April 2011. It is allocated to pupils who are currently known to be eligible for free school meals or have received free school meals in the last six years, pupils who are looked after and pupils who are previously looked after (adopted from foster care).

Eligibility for Free School Meals

Your child could get a free school meal if you receive any of the following:

Income Support
Income-based Jobseekers Allowance
Income-related Employment and Support Allowance
Support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
The guaranteed element of State Pension Credit
Child Tax Credit (as long as you’re not also entitled to Working Tax Credit and you don’t get more than £16,190 a year)
Working Tax Credit run-on (paid for 4 weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit)
Universal Credit (with annual earned income of no more than £7,400 after tax and not including any benefits you get).

Applications to receive or check eligibility for free school meals is managed through Hertfordshire County Council. The online application takes 5 mins and in most cases we can tell you straightaway if your child can get free meals at school. Click here for further information.

Use of the Pupil Premium Funding at Ridgeway Academy

Our vision goes well beyond simply narrowing the gap between those who are economically advantaged and those who are not. We are determined to ensure that all students, irrelevant of background or prior attainment, have the qualifications and attributes necessary to succeed at a world class university or prestigious apprenticeship.

Pupil Premium Financial Support Request

Please click here to access our Pupil Premium Financial Support Request form.

Review Documentation

Please see the PDF attachments for a detailed breakdown of how PP funding is allocated across a range of initiatives at Ridgeway Academy.

Ridgeway Academy Pupil Premium Strategy Statement 2023-24

We are particularly proud of our individually tailored provision to identify and meet the barriers to progress of each of our Pupil Premium students.

Key Staff

Sarah Merrigan – Assistant Headteacher / Lead DSP – MerriganS@ridgeway.aat.school

Ridgeway Academy | Everybody can Achieve

Herns Lane, Welwyn Garden City, Herts, AL7 2AF

Telephone: 01707 351350
Absence Line: 01707 351350 Extn: 3315
Email: admin@ridgeway.aat.school

Alban Academies Trust

Ridgeway Academy is part of the
Alban Academies Trust

I like how you provided the children with computers.

You have supported my girls throughout. I am very pleased.

Providing food, money and vouchers has been a great help, thank you so much, very grateful.

You have made a pandemic bearable and less stressful.

Making sure we have: laptops, healthy food for our children, sanitary products and lined paper. I don’t think you could have done more.

I’m glad I chose your school for my daughter.