Dining & School Meals

We provide a meal service featuring a wide range of healthy options, which is accessible before school and at break time and lunch time. School meals cost £2.95.

We also operate a Breakfast club every day from 8:00am. Students can grab a free bagel or cereal from the Dining hall to start the day.

Online Free School Meals

Your child may be able to get free school meals if you get any of the following:

• Income Support
• Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
• Income-related Employment and Support Allowance
• Support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
• The guaranteed element of Pension Credit
• Child Tax Credit (provided you’re not also entitled to Working Tax Credit and have an annual gross income of no more than £16,190)
• Working Tax Credit run-on – paid for 4 weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit
• Universal Credit – if you apply on or after 1 April 2018 your household income must be less than £7,400 a year (after tax and not including any benefits you get)

Children who get paid these benefits directly, instead of through a parent or guardian, can also get free school meals.

Your child may also get free school meals if you get any of these benefits and your child is both:

• Younger than the compulsory age for starting school
• In full-time education

OFSM Advance Learning Partnership – Application Form

Cashless catering

The school uses a cashless catering system in the dining hall, which enables us to provide a more efficient breakfast, break time and lunch service by reducing queuing times for students.

Parents and carers can top up student accounts through the Schoolgateway app or webpage. If you would like more details please visit https://schoolgateway.co.uk/

Benefits of School Gateway

• Parents can pay for school meals in advance rather than on a daily basis thereby reducing the risk of loss or theft.
• Student accounts can be ‘topped’ up as and when required.
• Students entitled to free school meals remain anonymous, as they will purchase meals in the same way as other students.
• Cheque payments can be made to the school which will be loaded onto student accounts. This reduces the need for students to carry cash if this is parental preference.

In order to operate the cashless catering system student accounts are activated using a finger recognition system. When the student account is set up an image is taken of the finger which is subsequently encrypted into a 4 digit number. Please note that the actual fingerprint will not be stored. The data stored for each student will be held in accordance with Becta guidelines and will be kept in accordance with data protection regulations. All information will be destroyed when the student leaves the school.

Please see below our School Menu.