School Meals and Healthy Eating

At Salford Priors CofE Academy, we are proud to provide freshly cooked, nutritious school meals prepared on site each day. Pupils are offered a daily choice of meals, based on a three-week rolling menu, ensuring variety and balance. A copy of the current menu is available via the link at the bottom of this page.

Special Dietary Requirements

We are able to cater for pupils with specific dietary needs. If your child has an allergy or particular requirement, please contact our school cook, Mrs. Buckingham, who will work with you to ensure a suitable meal is provided each day.

Breaktimes

We encourage healthy choices at breaktime to help children stay energised and ready to learn.

• In Reception and Key Stage 1, pupils enjoy free fruit each day, and children under 5 also receive free milk.

• Children over 5 can continue to enjoy milk at school through the Cool Milk scheme.

• In Key Stage 2, children are welcome to bring a healthy snack from home or buy fruit from school.

To support children’s health and wellbeing, we kindly ask that snacks such as chocolate, crisps or sweets are not brought as everyday snacks but are instead enjoyed occasionally—perhaps once a week or for special occasions.

Packed Lunches

As an alternative, children may bring a healthy packed lunch from home. We ask that lunchboxes are balanced and that crisps and biscuits are limited to one packet of crisps and one healthy biscuit per day.

Water is provided for all children at lunchtime. Pupils with a packed lunch may bring their own drink, but this should be juice-based and non-carbonated (no fizzy drinks).

Please note: nuts are not permitted in school in any form, including peanut butter, this is to protect pupils with severe allergies.

Drinks at School

Children are encouraged to bring water in a named bottle each day. Staying well hydrated supports concentration, learning and wellbeing. Bottles are kept in classrooms and taken outside at break and lunch times.

To promote good dental health and healthy habits, we ask that children bring only water into school. Bottles should be taken home daily to be washed and refilled.

Free School Meals and Payment Information

• Pupils in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 are entitled to Universal Free School Meals.

• For pupils in Years 3–6, meals must be paid for in advance (daily, weekly, half-termly or termly). Payment should be sent in a clearly marked envelope or container with your child’s name and class.

Some families may be entitled to Free School Meals. If you think this may apply to you, please contact the school office in confidence. Children receiving free meals are not identifiable to others.

Eligibility for Free School Meals

Your child may be entitled if you receive:

• 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 guaranteed element of State Pension Credit

• Child Tax Credit (without Working Tax Credit, and with an annual gross income below £16,190)

• Working Tax Credit run-on (paid for 4 weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit)

• Universal Credit

Applications should be made via Apply for free school meals – Warwickshire County Council. Applying is strongly encouraged, as eligibility also provides exemptions from costs for certain school activities, including clubs, educational visits and residential trips.