At Macmillan Academy we receive extra funding for those students who are currently entitled to Free School Meals (FSM) and those who have been in receipt of FSM in the last 6 years (Ever 6).

At Macmillan Academy we believe that all of our students will achieve well if they are taught by well trained and highly qualified teachers. We invest time and money in developing our staff and we have developed a model for teaching and learning that is based on evidence from the Education Endowment Foundation as well as other research such as John Hattie's Visible Learning and Geoff Petty's Evidence Based Teaching.

Overall the performance of 'disadvantaged' students at the academy continues to be a focus for the academy. We are particularly pleased with the positive destination data for the students who fit this category. This ties in with the aim of the governing body and all staff employed at the academy to ensure that all young people leave our institution with a positive destination for their future work or study.

In deciding how to spend the money we carry out an annual review of our pupil premium budget and set about identifying the aims (desired outcomes) that we had for our disadvantaged students. The audit linked to this page shows what strategies we employed to meet these outcomes. There is also an evaluation of those strategies so that there is complete transparency and accountability for the way in which these funds were spent. It can also be seen that the final spend was over the amount allocated by the DFE as we believe that it is vital to invest as much as possible in this area to meet our aims.

In total we recieved:

• 2018-19: £420,000
• 2019-20: £400,000
• 2020-21: £420,000
• 2021-22: £440,000