Food and Drink
Food
- Children up to and including year 2 are entitled to a free piece of fruit each day.
- Parents are asked to send in healthy snacks from home.
- Water or milk will be offered to drink; milk can be purchased through the School Milk Scheme, this scheme is available to all of our pupils and you can register your child. School milk is free for under-5s, and for over-5s. Each child that registers with Cool Milk will receive a 189ml portion of semi-skimmed milk every day, delivered fresh and chilled to the classroom. Their school milk will not only provide them with essential nutrients, but as it is re-hydrating and energy boosting it also bridges the gap between breakfast and lunch to help children stay focused.
For more information on how milk can benefit children please click the below link.
Healthy Schools
A Healthy School promotes the health and well-being of it’s pupils and staff through a hostile approach to the curriculum, recognising and meeting individual pupil needs.
School Dinners
New Food Standards came into force from January 2015. They are intended to help children develop healthy eating habits and ensure they get the energy and nutrition they need across the whole day. Variety is key to a healthy diet. Food needs to look and taste delicious.
Children and young people in North Yorkshire can be confident that they are enjoying the best of British when they have a school lunch. All food suppliers are based in the Yorkshire region, with the majority being family owned businesses. Only fresh meat and poultry is used in school lunches most of which is sourced from within the county boundary.
Half of all fruit and vegetables are sources from the north of England and all the eggs are free range. They are sourced in the Yorkshire region and have received a “Good Egg Award” from the animal welfare charity Compassion in World Farming.
A variety of fair trade products are used including sugar, coffee and cocoa. Gluten free items are also stocked including sausages, pasta, flour and bread and organic pasta is now used.
All food served in our school is freshly prepared every day.
Please click here for the school lunch menu
NYCC – School Meals Food Policy
Special Diets
If your child has a dietary need put the request in writing to the Headteacher who will then inform the catering team.
Key stage one children (reception, years 1 and 2) are entitled to a free school meal.
School meals:
- have a three-menu cycle, allowing students to become familiar with the food served
- are changed every term to reflect the seasons
- are written in consultation with pupils and cooks.
Pupil meals are currently priced at
• Primary pupils: £4.25 per day
• Secondary and 6th form pupils: £4.45 per day
Payments can be made in cash, cheque or through ParentPay using the link. Any meals cancelled after 10.30 am will be charged for.
Free school meals are available to all key stage one pupils and to children whose parents receive certain benefits.
These include one or more of the following:
- 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 6 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999;
- The guarantee element of Pension Credit;
- Child Tax Credit, provided you are also not entitled to Working Tax Credit and have an annual household gross income that does not exceed £16,190 (as assessed by HMRC);
- Working Tax Credit run-on – paid for 4 weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit.
Children who receive any of the above benefits in their own right are also entitled to free school meals.