Adding Pupil Premium to your MIS
Arbor
‘Pupil Premium Eligible’ in Arbor is an indicator of whether a student may be eligible for Pupil Premium based on their background, such as being in receipt of Free School Meals. The Pupil Premium tag may not be a true representation of who actually receives Pupil Premium funding in the school (shown by the Pupil Premium Recipients tag). Please note: There isn’t a pupil premium button that can be pressed to toggle this status on/off.
The student will be marked as Pupil Premium Eligible = Yes when they have one of:
- Ever 6 FSM status
- Ever 6 Service Child status
- Current FSM eligibility (only if the student is between 5 and 15 years of age)
- Current Service Child status
- Any sort of Looked after (In Care) status, even if they are no longer in care. The only status that will not trigger Pupil Premium is With Parents (under the supervision of social services)
As such if you remove all of these indicators, the student will no longer be classed as Pupil Premium Eligible.
You can also upload and tag the official recipients of the Pupil Premium using the Official DfE files received from GIAP.
- Firstly make sure that you have downloaded the file from GIAP and that this is saved on your computer before you start.
- Then go to Student > All Students > Bulk Update > Pupil Premium Recipients. The page explains how to get the Pupil Premium file and how to use GIAP to download and search for students.
- Click on the green Show UPN List to get a list of all UPN’s of students currently enrolled in your school.
- Once you have the file click +Add button. This will open a slide over where you can upload your file. Once you have browsed and added the file from your computer, click on the green ‘Upload’ button to continue.
- This will then generate a list of all the students in the file you uploaded. To create the Pupil Premium Recipient, records click on the green Confirm upload button. Until you have confirmed the upload, students will not be marked as Pupil Premium Recipients in Arbor.
Bromcom
Bromcom will add Pupil Premium status to the Student if any one of the following conditions are met in the Student Profile. IMPORTANT: Pupil Premium status can only be applied to Students who are of Statutory Age. (i.e. Students younger than 5 or older than 16 cannot be recorded as being in receipt of Pupil Premium)
- Any entry against Post Looked After Arrangements other than Not Declared which can be found in the Student Record under Student Details (see Additional Details tab).
- Ever 6 = “Yes” (i.e. if the Student has been eligible for FSM at any point in the last 6 years.)
- FSM = “Yes” (i.e. currently eligible for FSM, this in turn triggers the Ever 6 flag).
- Member of Armed Forces marked against a Parental Contact.
- Service Children in Education within Student Details > Additional Details = Yes
- Anything entered against Pupil Premium Type within the Funding & Allowance section of the Student Record. This section confirms the funding received for that Student from the government. You might use this section if for example, students arrive part way through the year.
- If the student is recorded as currently Looked After within the Safeguarding section of the Student Profile.
You can import a Pupil Premium Import from Students > Actions > Pupil Premium Import. Which also has the option for three Annual Imports per Year for Spring, Summer and Autumn.
Pupil Premium Status and Early Years Pupil Premium can also be updated in bulk from the Student List Page.
Select the required Students and then from the Actions dropdown click Quick Edit.
Choose either Pupil Premiums or Early Years Pupil Premium from the Attribute dropdown to update the same field for multiple Students.
Note: By default, many Bromcom routines run nightly. This means if changes are made in a working day, you may need to wait until the next day for the changes to take affect, depending on how you have configured the routines.