If you are on benefits, your child may be entitled to free school meals no matter what year they are in.

If you are on benefits and your child is entitled to universal infant free school meals anyway, it is still important to register for a free school meal to ensure school does not miss out on funding called pupil premium.

Pupil premium gives the school funding to give your child extra support and or resources in school.

You are entitled to free school meals if you receive any of the following benefits:

• Universal Credit (provided you have an annual net earned income of no more than £7,400, as assessed by earnings from up to three of your most recent assessment periods)
• Income Support
• Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
• Income-related Employment and Support Allowance
• Support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
• The guarantee element of Pension Credit
• Child Tax Credit (provided you’re not also entitled to Working Tax Credit and have an annual gross income of no more than £16,190)
• Working Tax Credit run-on – paid for four weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit
• If your child is eligible for free school meals, they will continue to receive them until they move to a new stage of school, such as from primary into secondary school

Please note: People receiving Working Tax Credit, regardless of their income level, do not qualify.

To claim

• please speak to Ms Staton or Mrs Warren at school or
• apply online: https://www.leeds.gov.uk/schools-and-education/apply-for-free-school-meals

Your child is also eligible for pupil premium if your child is looked after or post looked after or you are an armed services family.

Please see below for details of how we spend the Pupil Premium and PE & Sports Premium funding.

Pupil Premium

Our Pupil Premium Strategy is attached at the bottom of this page. This sets out the funding we receive and how we will use it.

PE & SPORT PREMIUM

The PE and Sports Premium is designed to help primary schools improve the quality and breadth of the PE and sport activities they offer their children. It is funding allocated from the Government in addition to the school budget to help children develop healthy lifestyles.  

The Government guidance suggests that the PE and Sports Premium funding could be used to:

• Hire sports teachers
• Hire qualified sports coaches to work with teachers
• Provide existing staff with teaching resources to help them teach PE and Sport
• Support and involve the least active children by running or extending school sports clubs
• Run sport competitions or increase pupil’s participation in the School Games
• Run sports activities with other school

 

Our annual PE and Sport Premium Report details how we use this funding. 

Our Spending 

Schools must spend the additional funding on improving their provision of PE and sport, but they will have the freedom to choose how they do this. Please see the attachments below.