English as an Additional Language & Free School Meals
If your child was exposed to a language other than English from birth or if you believe that you may be entitled to Free School Meals then please contact the school office in confidence to let us know.
If you regularly speak a language other than English at home, or your child earned another language before English then please just drop us an email to let us know.
Free School Meals & Pupil Premium
All children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 receive free school meals under the Universal Infant Free School Meals scheme. However, if your family is in receipt of certain benefits, then your child may be eligible for Free School Meals and this eligibility will stay with them whilst you are in receipt of those benefits and for 6 years after the eligibility ends. This means that when your child moves to Year 3 they will continue to receive Free School Meals even though they are no longer entitled to the Universal Infant Free School Meals scheme.
Additionally, as a school, we will receive additional funding to support your child if they are eligible for Free School Meals - this is called the Pupil Premium. It is therefore important that you register under the eligibility scheme.
The application is very simple, just contact the school office, and we will send you an application form which we then send off to be checked to see if you are eligible. You may be eligible if you are in receipt of Income Support, Job Seeker's Allowance, Child Tax Credit or Universal Credit or other qualifying benefits.