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School Lunches
At Holy Rood, our lunch break runs from:
| When? | Who? |
| 11:45am until 12:45pm | EYFS |
| 12:00pm until 1:00pm | Year 1 |
| 12:15pm until 1:15pm | Year 2 - Year 6 |
During this time, all of our pupils enjoy either a hot school meal prepared freshly each day in our school kitchen or a packed lunch prepared by their parents/ carers at home.
We are able to provide a range of hot school meals cooked on the premises in our school kitchen. Our catering is run by a company called 'StirFood'.
Stir is delighted to be the chosen caterer that will provide lunchtime meals to the children at Holy Rood Catholic Primary School. We’re really looking forward to welcoming the children into the dining room and serving them delicious, home-cooked food.
Full of Flavour and Fun
We pride ourselves on serving food to our customers that they love to eat. We involve them in designing our menus and take feedback into account to make sure that every single dish we create is just right for our young customers.
The food children eat at school plays an important role in their wellbeing, and eating a well-balanced diet not only helps to maintain and improve their health but also sets them on the right track for later life. We really understand this and that’s why we’re passionate about serving fresh, high quality and locally sourced food that is prepared and cooked in our kitchens, so we can guarantee they are healthy and balanced.
We also love to add some fun to the dining room - most of us have strong memories of our school lunches and we want to make sure those memories are positive. Therefore, we work hard to create dining experiences that are welcoming, warm, social and fun. We want our customers to look back at their school lunches and not only remember eating delicious food, but also having a great time with their friends!
Fresh and Local
We are proud supporters of local and regional farmers. There are so many incredible producers right on our doorstep so we make the most of it! This has lots of benefits, including supporting the local economy, safeguarding local jobs, telling important stories about local farming families and of course, ensuring we’ve got the best, freshest ingredients on our menus! It also helps us to be sustainable - we’re passionate about enhancing our customers’ lives and that means helping combat climate change to support their futures. We use local, seasonal, traceable ingredients in our menus to reduce the carbon footprint of our services.
For further details about this service, please visit StirFood website by clicking here.
Example menu from StirFood (Click on the image above to expand)
For the StirFood Parent Information Booklet for Holy Rood Catholic Primary School, please click here.
Alternatively you may wish to provide your child with a packed lunch from home. Please note that due to allergy concerns we are a nut free school and therefore we ask that you refrain from sending children to school with nuts or nut based products e.g. peanut butter sandwiches, cereal bars containing nuts etc
Click below to read the schools' guidance on packed lunches in:
Free School Meals information
In certain circumstances it may be possible for parents to receive free school meals for their child(ren).
Your child may be entitled to receive free school meals if you are entitled to receive one or more of the following:
- 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 (as long as you’re not also entitled to Working Tax Credit and you don't get more than £16,190 a year)
- Working Tax Credit run-on (paid for 4 weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit)
- Universal Credit (with annual earned income of no more than £7,400 after tax and not including any benefits you get).
Children who are or have been in care, and children who have a parent who is or was in the armed forces, are also entitled to pupil premium.
If you think that you may be eligible to qualify for free school meals please do not hesitate to contact a member of the school office team.
How to apply…
To apply, click on this link:
Free School Meals vs Universal Free School Meals information...
Please note: Under the Government's 'Universal Free School Meals' (UIFSM) initiative, all children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 are eligible to claim a free school meal each day regardless of economic circumstances. At our school we are pleased that an extremely high percentage of families choose to do this.
However if you and/ or your partner fall into any of the above 'Free School Meal' categories, it is important that you speak to the school office to register this as the school may be able to access approximately £1,480 of extra funding per year for the school to spend in supporting your child to make the best possible progress and in helping you to provide experiences for your child such as extra curricular activities, musical instrument tuition and educational visits.
If you have any queries regarding applications for free school meals please speak to the school office, who will be more than happy to assist you with this.
