School Meals

Our school meals are prepared on site each day and offer your child a nutritionally balanced hot meal from a variety of healthy choices.

School meals are priced at £12.50 per week (£2.50 per day).

There are several choices of main course each day, a salad bar with a variety of items for your child to choose, bread baskets on each table, milk or water and a sweet course including a choice of fresh fruit or yoghurt each day.

The menu changes every day over a three week period.

If you pay for school meals you can access the ParentPay portal here

Free School Meals

 Who is eligible for free school meals? Apply for Free School Meals

Free school meals are available to pupils whose parents are in receipt of, one or more of the following benefits:

  • Universal Credit (provided you have an annual net earned income of no more than £7,400, as assessed by earnings from up to three of your most recent assessment periods)

  • 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 guarantee 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 four weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit

    Since 1 April 2018, all existing free school meals claimants have continued to receive free school meals whilst Universal Credit is rolled out. This applies regardless of any change in household circumstances, including if their earnings rise above the threshold during that time. Protections will remain in place until the end of the 2025/26 school year (July 2026).

From the start of 2026/27 school year, the Department for Education will extend entitlement to free school meals to include all children from households in receipt of Universal Credit. It is our intention to end transitional protections alongside this change in threshold, with eligibility for all pupils reverting to whether they meet the eligibility criteria, regardless of whether they were previously protected. We will issue further guidance ahead of September 2026. A pupil is only eligible to receive a free school meal when a claim for the meal has been made on their behalf and their eligibility, or protected status, has been verified by the school where they are enrolled or by the local authority.

A pupil is only eligible to receive a free school meal when a claim has been made by the parent or other responsible adult and their eligibility, or protected status, has been verified by the school where they are enrolled or by the local authority.

If you have a younger child starting school from September 2026 onwards and you are no longer eligible for free school meals, they will not be protected because this would be a new claim. 

Please note: Transitional Protections 
Transitional protections apply from 1 April 2018, until the end of the 2025/26 school year (July 2026).  Pupils becoming eligible for free school meals under the benefits-based criteria in this time, will continue to receive free meals until the end of the 2025/26 school year (July).  This applies, regardless of any change in household circumstances, including an increase in earnings above the eligibility threshold.

From the start of the 2026/27 academic year, it is the Department for Education’s intention that all protections will be discontinued, alongside an extension to the eligibility criteria for free school meals. From this point, households must meet the eligibility criteria to be entitled to free school meals. 

Source: GOV.UK June 2025 - FSM Guidance for Schools & Local Authorities