School Meals

School Meals, Free School Meals and Pupil Premium

School meals are available every day and are cooked fresh on the premises by our school chef and catering team. Dinner money is payable via our online payments system, ParentPay.

Parents can pre-order their child’s meal in advance through your ParentPay account.  The ordering deadline is the Thursday lunchtime before the following week. If you forget to place your orders the children will be able to either bring a packed lunch from home or select a baked potato which is available with a variety of fillings.

Please click here to look at the menu for the Autumn 2022 term.

In order to encourage healthy eating habits, sweets are not allowed in school. If you would like to send your child with a snack to eat during morning break, then fruit, celery, raisins or raw carrots are allowed. In addition to a lunchtime drink, please send your child to school with a named bottle of water, which can be re-filled during the day as required.

Your child might be able to get free school meals if you get any of the following:

• Income Support
• income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
• income-related Employment and Support Allowance
• support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
• the guaranteed element of Pension Credit
• 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)
• Working Tax Credit run-on – paid for 4 weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit
• Universal Credit – Your household income must be less than £7,400 a year (after tax and not including any benefits you get)

All children who are registered as eligible to receive free school meals due to their level of family income, or who have been registered for free school meals at any point in the last 6 years, will attract additional funding called The Pupil Premium. This additional funding is paid directly to the school to support pupils.

Even if you do not wish your child to have a free school meal on a regular basis, or even at all, we still ask that you apply for free school meals. The Pupil Premium will benefit your child’s school as additional funding, and will also enable your child to take up a free school meal any day they choose.

Apply for free school meals and the Pupil Premium online.

Universal Infant Free School Meals

Your child will be able to get free school meals if they’re in:

• reception class
• year 1
• year 2

If you also qualify for any of the benefits listed above, even though your child is automatically entitled to a free meal, it is still important that you apply for free school meals. This will entitle our school to receive pupil premium as additional funding to provide support for pupils.

Apply for free school meals and the Pupil Premium online.