Academy Lunches

The Academy operates a healthy eating policy. At playtimes, children have fruit, vegetables and milk. Fruit and milk are provided free of charge to Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1 children. 

At lunchtime we encourage children to have an Academy meal. These are cooked on site and are nutritionally balanced and always offer a choice. Menus are available in the foyer. Alternatively children may bring a packed lunch. Please note that children are not allowed to bring crisps, sweets or chocolate into the Academy at any time in line with the healthy eating policy. Children should bring plain water to drink during the day in labelled bottles. These should be taken home and refilled each day. 

 

Applying for Free School Meals

All children in reception, year 1 and year 2 in state-funded schools in England are eligible for free school meals. Please inform us if you do not wish to receive this offer, otherwise your child will automatically be opted in to the free school meal. 

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.