Free School Meals
Registering for free meals could provide your child with a free school meal and raise extra funding for our school, to fund valuable support like extra tuition, additional teaching staff or after school activities.
The school can now apply on your behalf, if you are already in receipt of Free School Meals or think you maybe entitled please visit the school office for an application to complete.
This additional money is called ‘Pupil Premium’ and is available from central government for every child whose parent is receiving one of the following benefits – Income Support, Income Based Jobseekers Allowance, Child Tax Credit, Asylum Seekers, Guaranteed Element of State Pension Credit or Income-related Employment and Support Allowance.
It is therefore important to sign up for free school meals, even if your child is in reception, year 1 or year 2, so that our school receives as much funding as possible.
If you are successful in registering for FSM, your child immediately receives the benefit of school dinners, however, you can still provide your child with a packed lunch out of preference.
If you would read the criteria below and see if you think your child may be eligible. If your child/children have qualified for Free School Meals over this period - even if you opted out or now no longer qualify – please do let us know so we can apply for the additional funding.
Please read the qualifying criteria below to help you determine your child’s eligibility for Pupil Premium funding:
- pupils who are registered for a free school meal
- pupils who have been registered for free school meals at any point in the last six years
- pupils who have been adopted from the English or Welsh care system
- pupils who have been placed on a Special Guardianship Order (SGO) and have been adopted
- pupils who left care under a Residence Order (RO) on or after 14 October 1991
- pupils who have been looked after by the Local Authority continuously for more than six months
- children of service personnel.