All Foundation Stage and KS1 children are entitled to Universal Free School Meals, so for the first few years of their school life, meals are free.  From September 2024, parents have been responsible for ordering their own child/ren's dinners via the MCAS app. From September 2025 all meals for KS2 children (Years 3 to 6) will cost £2.50 per child per day, an increase of 20p due to rising costs. Please see the information below under 'Chartwells'. 

Typical menus include: fish, pizza, roast dinners and pasta bars plus many more.  The menus change each week on a 3-week rotation basis and can be viewed below, view the top of the menus to see the corresponding dates and please note, we will be starting back on menu 2 from w/c 1st September 2025. There will be new winter menus after the October half-term.

• Week 1 Menu: Week commencing Monday the 21st April 2025
• Week 2 Menu: Week commencing Monday the 28th April 2025
• Week 3 Menu: Week commencing Monday the 5th May 2025

In March 2018 the Government announced that free school meals would only be available to children in KS2 whose families have a net income of £7,400 or under, effective from 1 April 2018.

Prior to April 2018, children qualified for free school meals if parents received any of the following benefits:

• Income support
• Income-based jobseekers’ allowance
• Income-related employment and support allowance
• Support under Part IV of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
• The guaranteed element of state pension credit
• Child tax credit, provided that you are not also entitled to working tax credit and have an annual gross income of £16,190 or less

These benefits have now been rolled into a single benefit, called Universal Credit. From April 2018, free school meals will only be allocated to pupils with a family income under £7,400 (net) per year.

If your child qualifies for free school meals, it’s important that you tell us – even if they take a packed lunch – as this enables us to claim pupil premium.