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Free School Meals and Pupil Premium Opportunities


What is Pupil Premium?

The Pupil Premium grant is an allocation of additional funding given to schools to support specific groups of children who are vulnerable to possible under-achievement. These include those who are entitled to Free School Meals (FSM), those looked after by the local authority and children in the armed service personnel. In 2012, funding was extended to include pupils who have been eligible for free school meals within the past 6 years.

At TDAJ we use the funding to tackle a range of internal and external barriers to learning and to ensure that eligible children are able to make the most of every opportunity and to achieve their full potential.

We aim to:

  • Ensure all children have access to high quality teaching across the school
  • Carefully track achievement and progress and provide academic support through specific interventions and emotional wellbeing support, where necessary
  • Ensure all children have access to extra-curricular activities including clubs, trips and other wider opportunities to raise their achievement and aspirations
  • Ensure every opportunity is taken to engage with parents and involve them in their child’s education
  • Improve language skills and communication

Free School Meal Entitlement

If you believe that you meet one of the following criteria, please follow this link to the Norfolk County Council site (our service provider): https://fiso.norfolk.gov.uk/Synergy/Enquiries/Citizen/FreeSchoolMeals.aspx for an online application or complete the application form below and return by email to: admissions@norfolk.gov.uk or post to: Free School Meals, Norfolk County Council, Floor 8, County Hall, Norwich, NR1 2DL:

· Income Support.

· Income Based Job Seekers Allowance.

· Income-related Employment and Support Allowance.

· Child Tax Credit - but no element of Working Tax Credit - and have an annual income (as assessed by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC)) that does not exceed £16,190.

· If you are supported under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.

· Guarantee element of State Pension Credit.

· Working Tax Credit during the four week period immediately after your employment finishes or after you start to work less hours per week.

· Universal Credit with an annual net earned income of no more than £7,400 (as from 1 April 2018).

If you have previously applied or been eligible for free school meals, you will still need to reapply when your child finishes a school phase.

 

How are we using the Pupil Premium funding?

At TDAJ we aim to:

  • Ensure all children have access to high quality teaching across the school
  • Carefully track achievement and progress and provide academic support through specific interventions and emotional wellbeing support, where necessary
  • Ensure all children have access to extra-curricular activities including clubs, trips and other wider opportunities to raise their achievement and aspirations
  • Ensure every opportunity is taken to engage with parents and involve them in their child’s education
  • Improve language skills and communication

If you would like more details about Pupil Premium at TDAJ this academic year please click on the link below.

Pupil Premium Strategy Statement

Activities and Opportunities at TDAJ

We offer a range of activities, both in school time and during the school holidays, for our Pupil Premium children. All activities are free of charge and offer children some fantastic opportunities to help them access wider learning beyond the classroom.

After school opportunities

Every term, we offer the opportunity to learn a new instrument. The club runs after school and children are also provided with a small snack and drink before the music begins! The children have been enjoying learning to play the samba drum this term.

 

Holiday club in school

On certain days of the school holidays we invite children and special visitors into school. Children have enjoyed activities such as a dance workshop, football and baking.

 

Holiday Trips

In addition to term time trips with their class teachers, we occasionally have 'extra' trips during the school holidays. This year children enjoyed a trip to Sacrewell farm and Hamerton zoo.