A contracted caterer, CLS Catering, provides our hot school meals which are available for £2.40 per meal. School menus are available from the school office and meals should be ordered via WisePay (meals should be ordered between Tuesday and Sunday for the following week). During meal times, children are encouraged to maintain good manners and are assisted by our caring lunchtime supervisors. 

Message from CLS Catering

Our menus have been nutritionally analysed and allergens recorded, any deviation from these set menus will affect the nutritional and allergen content. This is a live system and updates will be made to accommodate any product substitutions. Please ensure you speak to your School and on-site Unit Catering Manager if your child has specific dietary requirements. From time to time the demand for a popular dish on the day may result in us selling out therefore an alternative dish will be offered in its place, we will always try to accommodate customer needs.

https://clscatering.mysaffronportal.com/

Universal Free School Meals

If your child is in Reception, years one or two, you will automatically be entitled for free meals under the 'Universal Infant Free School Meals' criteria. However if you do meet the criteria listed below then you will need to submit an online claim in order for your child’s school to receive Pupil Premium funding.

Free School Meals 

Free school meals for Key Stage 2 children can be provided as part of the Family Support Benefit Scheme and applications are completed online at: https://www.dudley.gov.uk/resident/your-council/benefits/free-school-meals/

If you get any of the following support payments your child may be entitled to receive free school meals:

• Income Support
• Income-based Jobseekers Allowance
• Income-related Employment and Support Allowance
• Support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
• the guaranteed element of State 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 4 weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit
• Universal Credit (you must have less than £616.67 a month net earned income (after tax - and not including any benefits)​

Children who receive a qualifying benefit in their own right are also allowed to receive free school meals.

Children under the compulsory school age who are in full time education may also be entitled to receive free school meals.

Packed Lunches

We actively encourage a healthy lunchbox and recommend that they should contain the following:

• a good portion of starchy food, e.g. wholegrain bap, thick sliced wholemeal bread, chapatti, pitta pocket, pasta or rice salad
• plenty of fruit and vegetables, e.g. cherry tomatoes, carrot sticks, small box of raisins, mini can of fruit chunks
• a portion of semi-skimmed milk or dairy food, e.g. portion of cheese or pot of yoghurt
• a portion of lean meat, fish or alternative, e.g. ham, chicken, beef, tuna, Quorn, egg or hummus
• a drink e.g. fruit juice, semi skimmed milk or bottle of water

In addition, the school encourages a healthy diet and asks parents to consider the quantity and frequency of the following items in pupils’ lunchboxes:

• Sweets (including Winders), chocolate bars, etc.
• Crisps or any packeted savoury snacks high in salt and fat
• Sweet cakes, e.g. cakes, doughnuts, etc.

For the health and safety of children with nut allergies we ask that the following are not included in pupils’ lunchboxes:

• Nut bars
• Foods containing nuts
• Packets of nuts