School Meals
Our school have a variety of healthy eating projects ranging from the school menu to using ingredients grown by the children themselves.
Aspects of the curriculum are used to focus upon the children having a balanced and varied diet. We use aspects of the curriculum to try and raise the children’s awareness of healthy foods and nutrition. Packed lunches are closely monitored during lunchtimes to ensure the contents are appropriate. Sweets, chocolates and fizzy drinks are not allowed within packed lunches.
School Dinners
At Witton-le-Wear Primary School, our school dinners are cooked on site by our fabulous School Cook, Miss Taylor, and the kitchen staff!
A Sample menu is available in school so you can see some of the delicious food available to our children each day. These menus are changed on a termly basis. Children decide what they would like to have for their lunch on the morning as they have their attendance registration. Meals are then cooked to order and served in our school hall.
Children at Witton-le-Wear Primary School participate in our school fruit scheme. Each child in Key Stage One has the option of a piece of delicious fruit such as oranges, pears, apples or bananas each day during morning playtime.
Free School Meals
Your child may be able to get free school meals if you get any of the following:
- 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 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 – if you apply on or after 1 April 2018 your household income must be less than £7,400 a year (after tax and not including any benefits you get)
Children who get paid these benefits directly, instead of through a parent or guardian, can also get free school meals.
Your child may also get free school meals if you get any of these benefits and your child is both:
- Younger than the compulsory age for starting school
- In full-time education
