Lunchtimes
Children have the option of bringing a packed lunch to school or having a school meal. The school lunch menu can be found below along with information relating to meal charges and free school meal.
School Lunch Menus: Nursery to Year 6
We provide two age-appropriate school lunch menus across the school.
Nursery and Reception (EYFS)
Children in Nursery and Reception are offered a menu aligned with EYFS statutory nutrition guidance. This reflects appropriate portion sizes, balanced nutrition and food safety, including consideration of choking risks for younger children.
Years 1–6
Children in Years 1–6 are offered a separate menu in line with national school food standards, promoting healthy, balanced meals and positive attitudes to food. While EYFS guidance does not formally extend beyond Reception, we aim for a consistent whole-school approach to healthy eating, adapted for age and stage.
Packed Lunches
We continue to work in partnership with families to ensure packed lunches support children’s health, wellbeing and safety in school. Our approach reflects Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) nutrition guidance and national advice on healthy eating and choking prevention, while recognising that packed lunch guidance is not statutory for primary-aged pupils. With children from Nursery through to Year 6, we take an age-appropriate but consistent approach, aiming to support families rather than police lunchboxes.
Packed lunches should include a balance of:
- A starchy food (such as bread, wraps, pasta or rice)
- A protein source (for example cheese, yoghurt, eggs, beans, hummus, meat or fish)
- Fruit and/or vegetables
- Water or milk to drink
For children in Early Years, please ensure food is prepared safely to reduce choking risks, including cutting grapes and cherry tomatoes lengthways into quarters and avoiding hard-to-chew foods.
Finally, in line with EYFS nutrition guidance and our whole-school approach to healthy eating, birthday cakes or other celebration foods should not be brought into school. We appreciate that this may cause some disappointment. We encourage families to celebrate birthdays in non-food ways and staff will ensure children are acknowledged and celebrated in school.
Reception to Year 2 - Universal Free School Meals
The Government provide free school meals for all Reception and Key Stage 1 Children (Year 1 and Year 2).
Nursery and Years 3/4/5/6
School dinners should be paid for using the online payment system within Parent Pay.
If your child wishes to change to school dinners from a packed lunch or vice versa please give one weeks’ notice.
During term time children in Reception, Year 1, and Year 2 are entitled to a free meal, without having to apply.
- If successful, parents will also be entitled to hugg vouchers in school holidays.
- Milk at break-time will be free for the time the child is entitled to free school meals.
- Help with curriculum related residential trips or school visits.
- If family circumstances don’t change the claim will already be set up for children entering Year 3.
- In addition to the help available to families, our school will receive extra funding
- Universal Credit
- Provided you have an annual net income of no more than £7,400
- This is assessed by earnings from up to three of your most recent assessment periods
- Income Support
- Income-based Job Seekers Allowance
- Income related Employment and Support Allowance
- Support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
- The guarantee element of Pension Credit
- Child Tax Credit
- Provided you are not entitled to Working Tax Credit and have an annual gross income of no more than £16,190
- Working Tax Credit run on
- Paid four weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit
The school office can help families apply for free school meals, or you can do this at the link below: