PRIMARY and secondary schools will receive a share of £400 million to help them buy the “little extras” they need.

Announcing the cash injection, Chancellor Philip Hammond said he recognised school budgets did not always allow them to get that “extra bit of kit”.

The one-off capital payment would equate to an average of £10,000 per primary school, and £50,000 per secondary school, the Chancellor announced during his budget on Monday.

Mr Hammond said: “We’re investing record amounts in our schools and that investment is paying off with 86 per cent of schools now rated good or outstanding, compared to 68 per cent in 2010.

“But I recognise that school budgets often do not stretch to that extra bit of kit that would make such a difference.

“So today I am announcing a £400 million in-year bonus to help our schools buy the little extras they need, a one-off capital payment directly to schools averaging £10,000 per primary school and £50,000 per secondary school.”

Geoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said that while the announcement was welcome, schools needed more.

He said: “While we welcome any increased investment in schools, the £400m ‘bonus’ announced today hardly scratches the surface of what is needed.

“The Chancellor’s comment that this money will help schools to ‘buy the little extras they need’ shows a complete misunderstanding of the prevailing funding pressures.

“Many schools don’t have enough money to provide a full curriculum or individual support to pupils, let alone provide ‘little extras’.

“What they desperately need is improved core funding.”

He added that it was a sign of the government’s priorities that it was spending “more on fixing potholes than on fixing the school funding crisis”.

Making reference to the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting on Saturday, the Chancellor announced a fund for educational programmes to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen Nazi concentration camps.

British troops found thousands of unburied bodies and severely-ill prisoners who had been interned at the site in northern Germany when they arrived on April 15, 1945.

Tens of thousands of prisoners from across Europe were killed at Bergen-Belsen or died following its liberation as a result of their treatment there.

Child diarist Anne Frank and her sister Margot died at the camp not long before it was liberated.

Mr Hammond said the £1.7 million fund was to ensure “the next generation hears the stories of those who survived the holocaust, and of the British soldiers who liberated... because the terrible events in Pittsburgh this weekend remind that the battle against anti-Semitism did not end with the defeat of Nazi Germany”.