2026-27
School meals are prepared on the premises and there are separate sittings for Infant and Junior children. The children have a choice of hot meals, salads / sandwiches and a choice of dessert.
Children may bring a packed lunch if preferred and must notify the school office if they wish to change from school meals to packed lunches (or vice versa), giving at least two weeks notice. For safety reasons, please do not include glass containers in your child’s lunch box. Pupils are encouraged to eat healthily and to show courtesy and good manners at the table.
Sample Menus
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Menu Week 1 September 2026 | [pdf 377KB] |
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Menu Week 2 September 2026 | [pdf 412KB] |
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Menu Week 3 September 2026 | [pdf 377KB] |
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Free School Meals KS1 Children
Reception, Year 1 and Year 2
All state funded infant school children receive a free school lunch.
If you do not want to accept this new provision, please contact the School Office to opt out of the scheme.
We encourage parents of children in Nursery and KS1 to apply for FREE SCHOOL MEALS, if you think you may be eligible, as it makes a valuable contribution towards school funding.
KS2 School Meals
School dinners cost £3.00 per meal. Total for the week is £15.00 Payment is due in advance of the child taking the meals. Pay on our School Gateway App and please keep your account in credit.
KS2 Free School Meals
You can get free school meals if your child attends a local authority maintained school (not private) and you receive one of the following:
- Income Support (IS)
- Income-based Jobseekers Allowance (IBJSA)
- An income-related employment and support allowance
- Support under part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
- Child Tax Credit (provided you are not entitled to Working Tax Credit) and have an annual income (as assessed by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs) that does not exceed the current year’s level
- the Guaranteed element of State Pension Credit
- Working Tax Credit during the four-week period immediately after your employment finished, or after you start to work less than 16 hours per week.
- Universal Credit, provided you have an annual net earned income of no more than £7,400 (£616.67 per month) )
Additionally:
- You, as the parent or guardian, must Receive Child Benefit for the child you are responsible for.
- Children who receive IS or IBJSA in their own right are also entitled to receive free school meals.
- Children who receive “education suitable for children who have not attained compulsory school age” will still need to satisfy the additional requirement of “receiving education both before and after the lunch period”, before being eligible to receive free school meals.
There are also cases where the parent or guardian whose children may be eligible for free school meals is not on Housing Benefit/Council Tax Reduction, i.e. where they are not the householder. This is generally the case where the pupils’ parent or guardian lives in another household.
Healthy Snacks
At break we encourage healthy snacks. As part of the National Fruit and Milk Scheme all infant children receive a piece of fruit and drink of milk each day. Children have access to water in their classrooms throughout the day.
Packed Lunch and Snack Options Guidelines
Although most children have school meals, sandwiches may be brought on request. If your child does bring a packed lunch could you ensure that it is in a sealed, plastic container with the child's name clearly marked. No hot drinks are permitted for safety reasons. Drinks should be in unbreakable containers.
At SS Aidans we value the importance of a healthy lifestyle and encourage all the children to make healthy choices. We have follow food standard guidelines for school dinners and ask that packed lunches follow the same rules.
Please see the below list of acceptable foods that can be put in your child’s lunchbox:
- One portion of fresh fruit and one portion of fresh vegetables or salad every day.
- Meat, fish or another source of non-dairy protein should be included every day. Non-dairy sources of protein include lentils, kidney beans, chickpeas, hummus and falafel.
- An oily fish, such as salmon, should be included at least once every three weeks.
- A starchy food, such as bread or pasta, rice, couscous, noodles, potatoes or other cereals, should be included every day.
- A dairy food such as semi-skimmed or skimmed milk. Cheese, yoghurt, or fromage frais should be included every day.
- Water.
- Any packaged snacks must be 100 calories or less and no more than one per day.
- One plain cake or biscuit.
- Meat products such as sausage rolls, individual pies, corned meat, sausages and chipolatas can be included occasionally.
- Seeds, vegetables and fruit (with no added salt, sugar or fat).
- Savoury crackers or breadsticks.
- No crisps except baked.
- No chocolate of any kind, in biscuits, in cakes or spread.
- No fizzy drinks or cordial.
- No sweets.
- No nuts or peanut butter.
All school dinners adhere to these guidelines and are planned by a dietician to offer children a healthy balanced daily meal. They follow strict guidelines and salt is not used in any of the preparation or cooking of the foods and sugar is kept to a minimum.