School Meals & Packed Lunches
Caterlink
Our school meals are provided by Caterlink. Caterlink are education catering specialists, meaning that they focus solely on primary, secondary, academy and college clients. Healthy eating is at the very heart of the Caterlink approach to food. They wholeheartedly encourage balanced diets within dining rooms and significantly invest in training their teams. Caterlink's policy of purchasing a range of seasonal produce from local and regional suppliers enables them to deliver exceptional value.
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Free School Meals
Universal free school meals
All children in reception, year 1 and year 2 in state-funded schools in England are eligible for free school meals.
Means-tested free school meals
Eligibility
You can get free school meals if your child attends a local authority maintained school (not private) and you receive one of the following:
- Income Support (IS)
- Income-based Jobseekers Allowance (IBJSA)
- An income-related employment and support allowance
- Support under part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
- Child Tax Credit (provided you are not entitled to Working Tax Credit) and have an annual income (as assessed by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs) that does not exceed the current year’s level
- the Guaranteed element of State Pension Credit
- Working Tax Credit during the four-week period immediately after your employment finished, or after you start to work less than 16 hours per week.
- Universal Credit, provided you have an annual net earned income of no more than £7,400 (£616.67 per month) )
Additionally:
- You, as the parent or guardian, must Receive Child Benefit for the child you are responsible for.
- Children who receive IS or IBJSA in their own right are also entitled to receive free school meals.
- Children who receive “education suitable for children who have not attained compulsory school age” will still need to satisfy the additional requirement of “receiving education both before and after the lunch period”, before being eligible to receive free school meals.
There are also cases where the parent/guardian whose children may be eligible for free school meals is not on Housing Benefit/Council Tax Reduction, i.e. where they are not the householder. This is generally the case where the pupils’ parent/guardian lives in another household.
Apply for Free School Meals here
Packed Lunches
Where children would prefer to bring a packed lunch from home, families are encouraged to follow our Healthy Eating Policy.
There are lots of ideas and advice on the Change for Life website . Click the image below to find out more
