Free School Meals - Pool Hayes Primary School

Headteacher: Mrs. K Vaughan
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2020 - New Information from the Local Authority

Summer Term Newsletter 2020 - click here.
Free School Meals and Early Years Pupil Premium Registration Form - click here.
Free School Meal Enquiry Form - click here.

All children in reception, year 1 and year 2 at maintained schools in Walsall automatically get free school meals. Your child may also be eligible for free school meals beyond year 2 if you meet the qualifying criteria.

Further information
Free school meals for reception, year 1 and 2 children
All children in reception, year 1 and year 2 classes are entitled to universal infant free school meals. If you meet the qualifying criteria listed below, completing an application could help your children's school get valuable extra funding through the pupil premium.

Who is eligible for free school meals?
  • Income support
  • Income-based jobseeker's allowance
  • Income-related employment and support allowance
  • National asylum seeker support
  • 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)
  • The guaranteed element of state pension credit
  • Working tax credit run-on - paid for four weeks after you stop qualifying for working tax credit.

What is the pupil premium?
The pupil premium is extra funding the government gives to schools to raise the achievement of disadvantaged pupils. The amount a school receives depends on the number of pupils eligible for free school meals.

Parents are encouraged to register their children, even if:
  • They do not want to eat school meals
  • They already receive universal infant free school meals.

This is in order to raise extra money for the school, which can be used towards extra tuition, learning assistants or after school clubs.


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