School Dinners – Provided by Lancashire County

Children have a choice of 3 meals every day, with fruit and yoghurt available daily. The menu is changed in the winter and the summer to offer a wide variety of choice, and is on a 3 week rota. 

Please encourage your child to try different foods, as some of the menu choices may be food they have never seen or been offered before. It can take a child several tastes before they like a food, so lots of encouragement is given at lunch.

However, if your child really doesn’t like the school meals offered, it may be a more suitable option to provide a packed lunch. Hungry children make unhappy children, and they are unable to concentrate well in the afternoon session.

Packed Lunch

If you choose to provide a packed lunch, please send your child with a small lunch box and a plastic flask or bottle. In the interests of safety, no glass bottles or cans should be brought in to school. We are working towards being a healthy school and therefore discourage children bringing fizzy drinks, chocolate or sweets as part of their lunch.

School Menu - Summer 2025

Free School Meals

Although all children in KS1 are entitled to receive a free school meal and no application is required to accept this, some children have a statutory entitlement to free school meals. The school can qualify for additional funding called pupil premium worth over £1,455 per child, if the parent is receiving any of the following:

• Income Support
• Income-based jobseekers Allowance
• Income related to ESA (employment and support allowance)
• Guarantee Element of State Pension Credit
• Support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1990
• Child Tax Credit and with annual income of less than £16,190 and not receiving Working Tax Credit
• Working Tax Credit ‘run on’ – the payment you receive for a further 4 weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit
• Universal Credit

If you think you qualify for statutory free school meals, please complete the form in the link below (external website) and return it to the local education office. If you are unsure, please speak with the office staff who are happy to assist.

If either parent is registered as disabled, please let the school office know.