Introduced in 2011, the pupil premium is a sum of money given to schools each year by the Government to improve the attainment of disadvantaged children.

 

Your child may be eligible for free school meals – and accordingly pupil premium – if you receive any of the following benefits:

 

• Income support

• Income-based jobseekers’ allowance

• Income-related employment and support allowance

• Support under Part IV of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999

• The guaranteed element of state pension credit

• Child tax credit, provided that you are not also entitled to working tax credit and have an annual gross income of £16,190 or less

• Universal credit

 

For more information please click here to visit the School Meals page or call in to the school office.

 

From September 2014, all children in Reception and Years 1 and 2 will qualify for free school meals, regardless of their family income, but only the children who would have qualified for free meals under the above income-based criteria will receive the pupil premium.

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If your child qualifies for free school meals, it’s important that contact us – even if they take a packed lunch – as this enables us to claim pupil premium.