School Meals

Children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 receive a daily free school lunch. The cost for pupils in Year 3, 4, 5 and 6 is £2.50 per day.

Lunches can be ordered on the day, but if your child will be having school lunches regularly we would prefer if you paid weekly. You can also choose to pay monthly, half termly or termly. Payments can be made in cash or online.

There are usually two main choices of hot meal and a hot vegetarian choice. There is also always a salad bar, jacket potatoes, sandwiches, crusty bread and pasta available in addition to the hot lunch and vegetable accompaniment.

For puddings there is always a variety of fresh fruit such as melon and kiwi fruit available as well as low sugar yogurts, biscuits and cakes.

Both water and low sugar squash is available.

We employ our own catering staff and source our own food.

Menu

If your child has any food intolerances or allergies please speak to us well in advance of them starting school. We will set up a meeting with you and the school cook so that we can ensure all of your child's needs can be catered for.

Packed Lunches

Children are welcome to bring a packed lunch to school. Most children bring in sandwiches or a pasta salad and then a selection of fruit, crisps and a yogurt. Water is available for all children or you may send fruit squash. We encourage children to take 'leftovers' from their packed lunch home so that you can see what they have eaten.

We would respectfully ask you to not send fizzy drinks or chocolate bars to school. Please keep them as occasional treats at home.

Some pupils will be entitled to Free School Meals

Please follow the link below to apply for Free School Meals using the wigan.gov.uk website

https://forms.wigan.gov.uk/xfp/form/750

Important Information before you begin

• If you are entitled to free school meals and do not wish to claim the free meal, we will still share the eligibility status with your school to enable them to claim the pupil premium funding. This may be the case for children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 who are entitled to universal free school meals. Pupil premium funding offers additional financial support to your child’s school, enabling them to deliver interventions and resources that help improve educational outcomes.

• If parental responsibility is not shared amongst all children, separate applications will be required

Who is eligible to Free School Meals

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

• Universal Credit

• 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