Schools transactions update 17 April 2025
Read to find out about the second P1/S1 allocation of places. There's also an update on FSM for P6/7 pupils and EMA.
P1 and S1 school allocations update
On 17 April we carried out a second round of allocations, answering all late placing requests received up to 2 April 2025. This includes any second preference requests we’ve been able to grant.
Both the P1 EPR system and SEEMiS provisional allocations for S1 places have been updated, but we will also be emailing schools t advise of any recent changes.
Free school meals and clothing grants
Easter holiday payment
We made an Easter holiday payment of £27.50 per child to all parents of children currently in receipt of free school meals.
Please note that these payments were only paid to parents with an 'income-based' entitlement to free school meals. Therefore, it was not paid to all parents of P1-P5 children, or any of the recent P6/7 SCP awards.
Update on SCP awards for P6/7 children
We’ve had a number of enquiries from parents who were recently awarded, stating that ParentPay was still charging for meals despite us processing their award.
As per the previous post dated 18 March 2025 we are approving these in the same way as we do for income-based FSM awards, and therefore you need to upload these to ParentPay. Please do this after the Easter break to pick up any recent awards.
Applications for 2025-26
Planning has started for opening applications for 2025-26. Applications for the current term will close on 31 May, so please don’t advise anyone to apply for the next session just yet!
We will again be automatically awarding parents if they have a current benefit claim and meet the criteria. This will take place in June, and thereafter we’ll open applications for everyone else.
Education Maintenance Allowance
Applications for the current session closed on 31 March 2025.
Applications are planned to reopen for 2025-26 on Monday 9 June and we’ll do the usual mailshot out to all age-eligible students.