FSM/PP/Sport Premium
Free school meals are available to students whose parents are in receipt of one or more of the following benefits:
- Universal Credit (provided the parent/carers 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
Apply for Free School Meals
Free school meals applications are made through Central Bedfordshire Council, regardless of the council area in which the resident lives.
Please ring Central Bedfordshire Council on 0300 300 8306 and have the following information ready:
- National Insurance numbers and dates of birth for you and your partner
- Dates of birth for your children
- Your NASS number if you receive support from the National Asylum Support Service
Once Central Bedfordshire Council has confirmed eligibility, they will notify Fulbrook School. Free school meals will start from the application date and the student will be entitled to a free school meal every day from the standard canteen menu.
Pupil Premium Statement
Fulbrook ensures that every individual is given the best possible chance of achieving personal success. Nationally, students from low-income and disadvantaged families have been at risk of lower achievement, lower attendance and are at more risk of exclusion than other students. The Government provides Pupil Premium (PP), in addition to main school funding, to narrow the gap between these students and their peers.
Pupil Premium Strategy Statement 2023-26
Pupil Premium Funding Objectives
The pupil premium allocation is spent either by providing academic support to boost attainment or as a means by which pupil’s learning or experience in education may be enriched. The funding is used to narrow and close the gap between the achievement of “disadvantaged” pupils and their peers. Each child is assessed regularly to determine that the school is providing the most effective support. Monitoring of achievement is undertaken in dedicated Subject and Year Group meetings. In these meetings academic and pastoral strategies are discussed to challenge and improve the data in response to changing circumstances. Through termly interviews, pupils and parents are asked to share strengths, weaknesses and concerns.
When selecting pupils for intervention or additional support, the school will look at all pupils across the school. There are some pupils who are illegible for PP who will benefit from this support if their needs are similar and the school believes progress can be made towards individual targets.
Through targeted interventions, Fulbrook is working hard to eliminate barriers to learning and progress. One of the school’s aims is to ensure that ALL groups of pupils make at least expected progress.
Qualifying Criteria for Pupil Premium
The pupil premium is additional funding provided to schools by the Department for Education according to the number of children, from low-income families, who are currently known to have been eligible for Free School Meals at any stage in the last 6 years (Ever 6 FSM) and children who have been looked after continuously for more than six months.
Schools are free to spend the Pupil Premium Grant as they see fit. However, schools are to be held accountable for how it has been used. Expenditure should focus on narrowing the attainment gap between eligible pupils and non-eligible pupils.
Although the additional funding is predominantly spent on academic support, some assistance can be given to families to support with the cost of uniform, residential visits, peripatetic music tuition, etc.
For further information, please contact email Mrs Johnson
Working in partnership with Leighton Linslade School Sport Partnership, the funding has been provided to ensure impact against the following objectives and indicators:
- To achieve self-sustaining improvement in the quality of PE and sport in primary schools.
Indicators of such improvement include:
- The engagement of all pupils in regular physical activity – kick-starting healthy active lifestyles
- The profile of pe and sport being raised across the school as a tool for whole school improvement
- Increased confidence, knowledge and skills of all staff in teaching pe and sport
- Broader experience of a range of sports and activities offered to all pupils
- Increased participation in competitive sport
- It is important to emphasise that the focus of spending must be sustainable and leave a lasting legacy beyond the funding allocation
- It is a statutory requirement of Ofsted, under their common inspection framework, to ensure that information on the use of the primary pe and sport premium is available on the school website
- Schools must use the funding to make additional and sustainable improvements to the quality of pe and sport they offer. You should not however use your funding to:
- Employ coaches or specialist teachers to cover planning preparation and assessment (PPA) arrangements - these should come out of your core staffing budgets
- Teach the minimum requirements of the national curriculum – including those specified for swimming
- Total Funding Allocation for 2022-2023 £18,260.00
- Total Spending for the period 2022-2023 £21,446.79
- Total Funding Allocation for 2023-2024
