The children choose their meals every morning during registration. Most days the children have a choice of 3 meals, a meat option, a vegetarian option or a jacket potato.

There are 2 special meals each week – Pizza Thursday and Fish & Chip Friday. Children may choose to have a school dinner for all or part of the week.

Every day there is a choice of fresh fruit or a pudding for dessert.

Payments are to be made on ParentPay, for those in KS2. Alternatively children can bring a packed lunch.

Dietary Requirements

The vast majority of dietary requirements can be provided for. Please let the school office know of any requirements children have.

Allergies

A full list of ingredients for all meals can be provided and checked. Please keep the school office informed of any allergies.

Free School Meals – Key Stage 1

Children in Reception as well as years 1 &2 receive a ‘Universal Infant Free School Meal’ (UIFSM) provides funding for all government funded schools to offer free school meals to children in Reception, year 1, and year 2.

Universal Free School Meals – UFSM

For low income households school meals are free beyond year 2, below are the details for qualifying for this support.

Qualifying for free school meals

To qualify for free school meals you must fulfil one of the following criteria:

• Universal Credit, provided you have an annual net earned income of no more than £7,400, as assessed by earnings from up to three of your most recent assessment periods (£616.67 per month);
• Income Support;
• Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance;
• Income-related Employment and Support Allowance;
• Support under part six of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999;
• The guarantee element of Pension Credit;
• Child Tax Credit, provided you are also not entitled to Working Tax Credit and have an annual household gross income that does not exceed £16,190 (as assessed by HMRC); or
• Working Tax Credit run-on, paid for four weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit.

Please note that contributions-based benefits, including contribution-related Jobseekers’ Allowance do not entitle you to claim free school meals.

Free school meals claims cannot be backdated. They are awarded from the date we receive the application, once eligibility is confirmed. This is because there is a legal requirement for a request to be made, before a free school meal can be provided.

More details of UIFSM and FSM are available on the North Yorkshire County Council website – Free school meals | North Yorkshire Council

Drinks and snacks

Children may bring a healthy snack for morning break. This should ideally be a pieces of fruit, rice-cakes, crackers or breadsticks.

Children in Early Years and Key Stage 1 can access free fruit or vegetables.

We are also able to provide milk, which is free for all children under 5. For children over 5 school milk can be ordered through the “Cool Milk” website www.coolmilk.com. Alternatively, children are allowed to bring water in a transparent sports bottle (no squash/juice or fizzy drinks please) to have during the day.

As we commonly have children who have nut and peanut allergies, we do not allow nut or peanut products into school.

Birthday Treats

Due to allergies and to respect the personal preferences of families in relation to foods their children are offered we are unable to facilitates the sharing of birthday cakes or birthday treats within the school day.

We are always delighted to sing to children on their birthdays and give our birthday stickers in our celebration workshop on a Friday.

Thank you for respecting and understanding our position in regard to this.