School Meals
We have an excellent school kitchen providing freshly cooked meals for the children daily.
Menu
You can view the lunch menu
Online Payment
All school and nursery lunches are payable online through ParentPay, accounts must not go into arrears.
Your child will inform their class teacher on the day at morning registration, whether they would like a school hot dinner or a school sandwich.
A school sandwich request form must be received by Wednesday at the latest for sandwich orders the following week.
The school kitchen will be offering 50/50 bread with either ham, cheese or tuna. Along with this children can help themselves to the salad bar. Children then receive a piece of fruit and can also choose from yoghurt or cheese and either cake, biscuit or flapjack.
If your child is in Reception, Year 1 or Year 2 meals are free.
Children in Year 3 – Year 6 cost £2.60 from 1st April 2024.
Free School Meals
Your child, or children, may qualify for Free School Meals if you meet the following criteria:
you or your partner have a child for whom you receive Child Benefit and who is attending a school or college in Telford and Wrekin
and you get any of the following:
Each school receives a weekly register showing the names of all children who are entitled to Free School Meals.
Should your circumstances change, for example you start work, increase your working hours to more than 16 a week, or cease being entitled to Income Support or Job Seeker's Allowance, you must notify us immediately.
Each school has the right to ask you to repay the value of any school meals that your child has been given for free, if they were not entitled to those meals.
If your child is eligible for Free School Meals, they’ll remain eligible until they finish the current phase of schooling (primary or secondary) they’re in on 31 March 2022.
To find out more visit the website below or call 01952 383862.
Come Dine with us for FREE with Universal Infant Free School Meals (UIFSM)
All children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 get a healthy nutritious lunch at no cost to you.
Universal Infant Free School Meals (UIFSM) is a government initiative aimed at improving academic attainment for infant children and to help families save money.
Since September 2014, all children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 in state-funded schools in England have been eligible for a filling nutritious cooked school lunch at no cost to the parent.
This includes infant pupils in maintained infant and primary schools, free schools, academies, and schools for pupils with special educational needs and pupil referral units. No proof of eligibility is required, it just needs a child to be in once of the relevant three years and their school will arrange for them to have lunch at no cost to the parent.
Each child gets a healthy nutritious cooked lunch which includes a main course and pudding, water is always available in the school dining room.
You will be given the school menu which shows the meals that are being prepared on a three week rotation. The menus always reflect the seasons with different vegetables and fruit on offer. All our schools aim to cater for those on special diets because of medical, cultural or religious reasons.
Good food provision in schools has been shown to lead not only to healthier children, but to improved attainment. The plan was brought in to help create a generation of children who enjoy food that makes them healthier, more successful and most importantly happier.
What are the benefits of this scheme?
Better health – a cooked school lunch gives them the essential vitamins and minerals they need to help them grow, develop, fight infection and have the energy to lead a happy and healthy life.
Better achievement and behaviour
There’s a link between what children eat at lunchtime in school, where they eat it and how they focus with their teachers in the afternoon. It teaches them to sit down together, which develops their social skills and encourages them to try new foods.
For more information about the benefits of a healthy school lunch visit the children’s food trust website.
As a parent/guardian this scheme can save you an average of £370 per year on lunchtime meals as well as the time it took to prepare packed lunches. Another benefit is that after school your child won’t need a cooked meal because you know they have already had a nutritious one at school.
