To Be The Best That We Can Be
Do you receive any of the following?
-Income support
-Employment Support Allowance (income Related)
-Income based Job Seekers Allowance
-Guaranteed Pension Credit
-Child Tax Credit and your income (as calculated by the Inland Revenue) is less than
£16,190
-Universal Credit
-Receiving support under Part Vl of the Immigration and Asylum Act of 1999
-In the Armed Forces
If you can answer yes to any of the above you may qualify for free school meals/Pupil Premium.
The school office will help with your application.
If your application is successful not only will your
child receive free school meals, but our school will receive an additional £1,345 additional funding (per child). This is called Pupil Premium.
All applications are confidential.
What is Pupil Premium?
Pupil premium is additional funding provided to schools for supporting more disadvantaged pupils to ensure they benefit from the same opportunities as all other children. There are three categories of children that qualify for pupil premium:
Pupil premium funding has been used to provide the respective children with appropriate support to make the expected progress in their learning.
The additional support includes one or more of the following:
The respective children’s progress and attainment is tracked and monitored carefully to ensure they achieve their full potential.
In addition to all of the above at Athelstan we also subsidise the following:
At Athelstan Community Primary School, we are committed to ensuring that our Pupil Premium children achieve the best possible outcomes.
We have high aspirations for all the children in our school community and believe that all children should be given the opportunity to reach their full potential and “Be the best that they can be “. We seek, as a school community, to provide personalised learning opportunities and targeted support to allow every child to flourish. We recognise that not all pupils, who are academically or socially disadvantaged are registered for free school meals, we therefore reserve the right to allocate Pupil Premium funding to support any pupil, or group of pupils, identified by the school as being at a significant disadvantage. In order to meet the above requirements, the Governing Body of Athelstan Community Primary School will ensure that provision is made to secure the teaching and learning opportunities and meet the needs of all pupils.
Areas identified to support our Pupil Premium children for the academic year 2024-2025
The Pupil Premium Strategy for the academic year 2022-2023 will be published in the Spring 2023 term.
See below for the latest Pupil Premium reports
Service Families
Within our school community we have several service families. There are many issues faced by service pupils and here at Athelstan we are able to support with:
Please see the link below to an amazing charity which offers support and resources to children whose parents are currently serving in the Armed Forces.