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School Meals & Payments

School Meals & Payments
  • Reception, Y1 and Y2 are entitled to Universal Free School Meals.
  • Nursery and Year 3-6 have the option to purchase a school meal at a cost of £2.55 per day. Our menus are in the links below.
  • School meals are ordered by the children during morning registration.
  • Payment is taken via our online payment system School Gateway.  Please contact the office for more details if you are not registered. Alternatively, a cheque or cash can be sent into school.

Our wonderful kitchen team prepare a variety of nutritious meals for our children. Our pupils are welcome to have a school meal, a packed lunch or can be collected by an adult to have a home lunch. We have a team of dedicated Lunchtime staff who care for and supervise the children.

School Meals – £2.55

School lunches are prepared and served on the premises by our kitchen staff. Our menu is set in-line with the ERYC menus. This also contains a full vegetarian and vegan offering. You can pay for meals using cash/chq or preferably online by registering for a payment account.

School Gateway Payment Account Set-Up

  • Enter the email address and mobile phone number we have on record for you and select the ‘Send PIN’ button
  • A PIN number will be text to your mobile which you then use to log on to the site

Examples of our school meal portion sizes as directed by ERYC are show below and the full ERYC Food Guidelines can be found in the useful links.

Free School Meals

Your child(ren) will be entitled to free school meals if you as the parent are in receipt of any of the following benefits:

  • Job Seeker’s Allowance (income-based)
  • Income Support
  • Universal Credit – Your annual income assessed by the Department for Work and Pension must be less than £7,400. Any pupil eligible for free school meals before 1 April 2018 when the earned income threshold is introduced will retain their eligibility until then end of universal credit roll-out which is March 2025
  • Child Tax Credit (but NOT receiving Working Tax Credit) – provided your annual income, assessed by the Inland Revenue, does not exceed £16,190
    (Please note: this amount is subject to change in April every year)
  • Employment Support Allowance (income-related)
  • Guarantee Element of State Pension Credit
  • Support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.

Entitlement to free school meals is kept as confidential as possible. Many schools now have systems in place such as swipe cards or fingerprint identification systems, which do not identify to other pupils the fact that a child is receiving a free school meal.

The free school meal will remain in place for as long as your child continues to attend an East Riding of Yorkshire school and you continue to be entitled to one of the above qualifying benefits.