School Dinners
New lunch Menu's from 8th April 2024
School dinners
City Catering provide cooked school meals, at a cost decided by the L.A. All school meals are paid for through ParentPay, please use the link below to access this website. The kitchen staff work very hard to serve high quality food and the children are always given a choice of main course and sweet but if you wish your child to have a packed lunch then facilities are available. Please select the Latest news tab / school menus to see what's available.
Free School Meals
Your child may be able to get free school meals if you get any of the following:
- Income Support
- Income-based Jobseekers Allowance. Please note the ‘new style’ job seekers allowance is not a qualifying benefit, as this is based upon payment of National Insurance contributions and not the household income
- Income-related Employment and Support Allowance. Please note the ‘new style’ employment and support allowance is not a qualifying benefit, as this is based upon payment of National Insurance contributions and not the household income
- the Guarantee element of State Pension Credit
- eligible Child Tax Credit but not Working Tax Credit and the household income (as used by HMRC to assess tax credits) is not more that £16,190. Please note: anyone eligible for Working Tax Credit, or if you have a partner and they receive it, regardless of Income, you will not qualify
- Support under part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
- In receipt of the 4 week run on of working tax credit (this is where someone becomes unemployed or reduces their hours and so is no longer entitled to working tax credit but will continue to receive it for a further 4 weeks and is entitled to free meals during that time)
- Universal Credit (provided you have an annual net earned household income of no more than £7,400 as assessed by earnings from up to three of your most recent assessment periods). Your net earned income is your household income after taxes and deductions and does not include income from Universal Credit or any other benefits you may receive.
Children who get any of the above benefits in their own right (ie they get benefits payments directly, instead of through a parent or guardian) can also get free school meals.
If you think your child is entitled to free school meals please visit the on-line service provided by Staffordshire County Council . https://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/Education/Educational-awards-benefits/FreeSchoolMeals/Apply-online.aspx
The current cost of a school meal is £3.40 per day (no charge for pupils in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2)