Ok so this is gonna be a rather long post. My husband earns around 70k a year and I am a housewife. We live in West Yorkshire. We have two Children (7&3) 1 in Nursery and 1 in Year 2. When youngest started Nursery earlier on in 2018 about a month into her enrolment I was asked to sign a form because she had been granted some funding to help make nursery a better experience for her. They said that she had been the only child selected for this. I didn't know what this meant and just thought it was like a pot luck type system and they asked what I would like it to go towards. Still confused I said just do what you like with it, DD is 3, nursery is already fun for her. Didn't think anything of it and then at Christmas time a welfare officer phoned me and said that all the food collected at Harvest Festival was going to be turned into food hampers and donated back into the community and she would like DD (7) to have one. I was abit 
and said 'oh is it for families that struggle abit at Christmas because we have it all sorted' she said no not at all I just wanted to put DD name forward. This WO really likes DD so I just thought it could be that and didn't think much of it. When the Christmas Hamper arrived on 23rd we already had an abundance of Christmas stock so we advertised it on Facebook and it went back out to a family in the community. Forgot about it. Then in the last 2 month DD (7) has had letters home for her to join after school booster lessons in Maths and Reading. The Maths one i didn't think anything of because it doesn't seem to be her strongest subject but with the reading one I was like ??? She's 7 and she reads a whole lot of books, Jacqueline Wilson and Dahl, Rowling ect. She literally whizzes through books. So I thought surely this is a mistake, I'm always getting emails from the school about how good her reading is. So I took it to her teacher who couldn't really give me a straight answer when I asked if she was struggling. I said I'm concerned because it's looking to us like she's not performing at school like she is at home and would like to get to the root cause of it. She kind of palmed me off anyway and said she would talk to me at Parents Evening which was today. So i attended the meeting and a senior teacher saw me and said she understood that I had called in about the reading booster class (I didn't, I saw the teacher in the playground but just misunderstood) I said yes, I am confused and worried about DD performance at school if she needs all this extra help but obviously happy for her to attend I would just like to understand why her work is different at school. She went on to explain that she's not struggling at all! And that they get given a list of children who need extra attention and guidance and get funding allocated to them for these extra classes! They were often granted to children in underprivileged families. I was like 
And then remembered the nursery thingwith DD (3) I said I was so baffled as to why my children were eligible for this as we don't even qualify for child tax credits, not in receipt of any benefits. She said she would look into this for me but I must have signed a form regarding PPF, I know this is impossible because I struggle to remember to fill in the most basic school forms (trips, school milk ect) I always end up calling the office and paying via phone/verbal consent. I'm really unorganised. I've been thinking about it all day. What does this mean? Has anyone else had this experience? How do I get my children's names off this system that believes they're eligible for this funding. We are happy to pay for what they need regarding education. And if I can contact whoever it is in the system will they be chasing us up for all the funding they've given for DDs? I'm so confused. Any advise would be so appreciated.
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rackhampearl · 28/02/2019 23:35
I’m a foster carer and our looked after children are entitled to pupil premium. There’s more info here OP. Not sure it helps your confusion!!
www.gov.uk/guidance/pupil-premium-information-for-schools-and-alternative-provision-settings
Yes! So sorry I forgot to update. The school and the nursery are both connected. Turns out when we moved from East Yorkshire to West Yorkshire and enrolled them into current school they failed to put my husbands national insurance number in the system or something so they just entered my national insurance which then went onto the system as me earning zero! no wonder all this has been happening. I said I definitely put my husbands N.I on the form as he's the earner and they said yes, it was them that didn't input it. So confusing though, never knew they used NI numbers for schools. But anyway, I have to call up the 'government' to get it sorted I've been told Dreading the ball ache to be honest considering it wasn't my mistake but must be my comeuppance for being so rubbish with all the other forms 
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