Pupil Premium
What is pupil premium?
The Pupil Premium was introduced in April 2011. Schools can make decisions about how to spend the Pupil Premium funding to ensure that there is a narrowing of the attainment gap.
Schools are required to publish key information on-line, including the publication of the amount of Pupil Premium funding it received, what it has been spent on and the impact that it has had on attainment. Please read the spending strategy and pupil premium statements attached at the bottom of this page.
Eligibility
The Pupil Premium provides funding for :
- students who qualify for free school meals, or have done at any time in the past six years
- students who have a parent serving in the armed forces
- students who are in the care of, or provided with accommodation by an English local authority (LA) (looked after children LAC)
- students who were looked after by an English or Welsh local authority before being adopted, or who left care on a special guardianship order or child arrangements order (Post LAC)
Your child may qualify for free school meals if you have any of these incomes:
- Income Support
- Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
- Income-related Employment and Support Allowance
- The guaranteed part of Pension Credit
- Child Tax Credit (as long as your annual gross income is £16,190 or less and you don’t get Working Tax Credit)
- Working Tax Credit run-off after you come off Working Tax Credit
- Universal Credit you applied for on or after 1 April 2018. As long as your household income is less than £7,400 a year after tax, not including any benefits
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Applying for Pupil Premium funding is simple. Fill out the Free School Meals application form and return it to the school’s Finance Office via Reception. We submit the form to your local authority, who check your eligibility. This is usually done within a week. We will then contact you to tell you whether your application has been successful or not.
Free School Meals
Please visit the Catering page of our website for further information regarding free school mels and the application process: Saint Ambrose College - Catering.
more information
Please contact our Pupil Premium Coordinator, who oversees the school’s PP strategy using email pupilpremium@st-ambrosecollege.org.uk.