--- title: "Free School Meals" url: "https://highgreenprimary.co.uk/statutory-information/policies/key-information/free-school-meals" school: "High Green Primary School" --- [ ![High Green Primary School](https://files.schudio.com/high-green-primary-school/images/logo/high-green-website-menu-at-top-01-logoc(1).jpeg) ](https://highgreenprimary.co.uk/) # Free School Meals ![](https://highgreenprimary.co.uk/images/images/images.jpg) There are two types of Free School Meals: - Income based free school meals - Universal free school meals To qualify for free school meals a parent must: - Have a child attending a Sheffield school or maintained nursery, accessing education. - Have a school aged child or nursery age child, attending before and after lunch sessions at a nursery school or Local Authority maintained nursery. - receive any of the following qualifying benefits: ### Qualifying Benefits - Universal Credit (provided they have an annual net earned income of no more than £7,400, as assessed by earnings from up to three of their most recent assessment periods) - Income Support - Income based Jobseekers Allowance - Income related Employment Support Allowance - Support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 - The guaranteed element of State Pension Credit - Child Tax Credit – with a yearly household income of less than £16,190 (as assessed by HM Revenue and Customs) and do not get Tax Credit - Working Tax Credit run on (paid for 4 weeks after someone stops qualifying for Working Tax Credit) Children who get any of the above benefits in their own right (i.e. they get benefits paid directly, instead of through a parent or guardian) can also get free school meals. ### Universal Free School Meals If a child attends a state funded infant school and is in Reception/Key Stage 1, they are entitled to ‘universal infant free school meals’ regardless of their parent/carer’s income. ***Please click on the link below for more information.*** ### Key Information - [School Uniform](https://highgreenprimary.co.uk/statutory-information/policies/key-information/school-uniform) - [School Lunch Menu](https://highgreenprimary.co.uk/statutory-information/policies/key-information/school-lunch-menu) - [Free School Meals](https://highgreenprimary.co.uk/statutory-information/policies/key-information/free-school-meals) - [Term Dates](https://highgreenprimary.co.uk/termdates) - [Term Time Leave](https://highgreenprimary.co.uk/term-time-leave) - [Ofsted](https://highgreenprimary.co.uk/our-school/ofsted-report) - [SEN](https://highgreenprimary.co.uk/statutory-information/policies/key-information/sen) - [School Forms](https://highgreenprimary.co.uk/statutory-information/policies/key-information/school-forms) - [School Information](https://highgreenprimary.co.uk/statutory-information/policies/key-information/school-information) - [School Admissions](https://highgreenprimary.co.uk/statutory-information/policies/key-information/school-admissions) - [Transition Booklets](https://highgreenprimary.co.uk/statutory-information/policies/key-information/transition-booklets) - [Protected Characteristics ](https://highgreenprimary.co.uk/statutory-information/policies/key-information/protected-characteristics) - [Job Vacancies](https://highgreenprimary.co.uk/job-vacancies) - [Useful Links](https://highgreenprimary.co.uk/statutory-information/policies/key-information/useful-links) ### Contact Us **High Green Primary School** Wortley Road Sheffield S35 4LU Tel: 0114 2848264 ### Useful Links - [Contact Us](https://highgreenprimary.co.uk/contact) - [Calendar](https://highgreenprimary.co.uk/calendar) - [Query Contact](https://highgreenprimary.co.uk/contact) ### Sign Up For Newsletter [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/groups/1292773837491163) © Copyright 2021–2026 High Green Primary School. All rights reserved. School & Trust Websites by [ ![Schudio logo](https://highgreenprimary.co.uk/img/logo/dark.png) ](https://www.schudio.com/) ![](https://files.schudio.com/high-green-primary-school/images/splash/qr-code.png)