Pupil Premium Grants
Pupils eligible for Pupil Premium Grants:
- Ever 6/FSM - Pupils who have been registered for free school meals (FSM) at any point in the last six years.
- Post-LAC - Pupils who were looked after by a local authority immediately (before being adopted) or who left local authority care on a special guardianship order or child arrangements order (previously known as a residence order). These are collectively referred to as post-LAC.
- LAC - Pupils who have been looked after (LAC) for at least one day
- Ever 6 service children - Pupils (who were recorded in the January school census as having 1 or both parents in Her Majesty’s Forces) as being who were eligible for the service child premium in any of the previous 4 years as well as those recorded as a service child for the first time on the January school census.
How to apply
Free School Meals
Reception, Year 1 and Year 2
All children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 get free school meals.
However, if you or your child receive any of the benefits listed on this page, you should apply for free school meals. This will help the school to get extra funding from central government, which will be used to buy additional resources to benefit its pupils.
Year 3 onwards
You can apply for free school meals from Year 3 and above if you or your child receive any of these benefits:
- Income support
- Income-based Job Seekers Allowance
- Income-related Employment and Support Allowance
- Support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
- The guaranteed element of Pension Credit
- Child Tax Credit (provided you are not entitled to Working Tax Credit and your household annual income is less than £16,190)
- Working Tax Credit run-on (paid for the four weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit)
- Universal Credit (provided your household annual income is less than £7,400 after tax and not including any benefits you get)