School lunches

We pride ourselves in supplying our children with excellent food.

We feel that it is one of the most important parts of a child’s life – to eat properly. Eating a healthy diet enables a child to live life to the full and gives them a better performance all round, specifically helping with their concentration levels – which in turn affects achievement.

So we encourage all of our children to have a school dinner and we are glad to have such a high uptake of school dinners at our school. It’s good to know that our children are getting a well-balanced and healthy meal every school day.

See the information below for more details.

Further information:

Free school meals

Many of our families could get Free School Meals but do not claim for them; your child may be entitled to Free School Meals if you as the parent are in receipt of any of the following benefits:

  • Income Support
  • Jobseeker’s Allowance (income based)
  • Employment and Support Allowance
  • Support under the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
  • Guaranteed element of State Pension Credit
  • Child Tax Credit (but NOT Working Tax Credit)


Why claim?

  • Save hundreds of pounds per year
  • Extra funding for the school in the form of Pupil Premium
  • It’s your entitlement
  • No downside
  • Other pupils and parents will not know you are claiming

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adults have high expectations of pupils’ behaviour.’

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‘The geography curriculum is a strength of the school.
Leaders have carefully set out what they want pupils to know by the end of each year.’

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‘Leaders
have provided teachers with the phonics training they need.’

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‘Teachers have strong subject
knowledge and use geographical vocabulary with precision.’

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‘Children in early years learn phonics as soon as they start school.’

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‘Pupils discuss and analyse texts during their
‘reading mastery’ lessons.’

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‘Reception children get opportunities to explore numbers all the time.
Daily mathematics lessons help them to count with speed and confidence.’

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‘Pupils enjoy the books their teacher reads to them.’

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inspector that, ‘school is amazing because teachers include everyone.’

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‘Classrooms are oases of calm. As a
result, pupils are happy. They feel safe at school.’

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‘In Reception, phonics is taught every day.’

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‘In mathematics, teachers make daily checks on pupils’ understanding. This ensures that the work pupils do is suitably challenging.’

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‘All pupils know the school rules.’

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‘Pupils who are falling behind in their phonics get extra help to catch up.’

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‘Staff are happy, and morale
is high.’

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‘Teachers model language and sounds accurately. This means that Reception children get off to a strong start with their reading.’

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‘Teachers use ‘pinny time’ to revisit the sounds that children have been
taught, as they learn through play.’

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‘The reading curriculum is well organised.’

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‘Pupils are very positive about their
mathematics work.’

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‘Leaders’ relationships and sex education and health education
curriculums give pupils an age-appropriate understanding of healthy relationships.’

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‘Pupils talk with pride about the ‘leading learner’ badges
they get for reading regularly, arriving on time and trying hard.’

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