Each day the Courtyard Cafe and the Tuck Inn serves a variety of seasonal foods to students, staff and visitors. The cafes are open for breakfast club, morning breaks and lunch time.
As a cashless school, meals should be ordered and paid for through parents’ WisePay accounts.
Healthy School Meals
As a school we are committed to providing healthy food choices at breakfast, break and lunchtimes. We recognise our responsibility to work with parents to protect children’s health and we hope to re-balance children’s diets during the school day by providing healthy options. We aim to manage choice so that we can increase the variety of foods our children eat and make it easier for them to choose the healthy option. Please contact the school office if you would like to see our Healthy Food Policy.
Our main meal menus are served in a three week rotation. Click on the links below right to see the options available and prices. A special meal, costing £2.50 (please note the special meal is not included in meal deals), is available on Wednesdays. The special meal must be purchased in advance from the canteens during breakfast and break times when students' planners will be stamped. They then just need to present their planner at the serving points in the Courtyard Cafe or Tuck Inn. Wednesday specials are posted on the whiteboards in the canteen on Monday or Tuesday. Other items may be purchased at Breakfast club or during breaks.
Allergens
To see the Food Standards Agency's guide to allergens please click here. To see the allergen key for external schools' lunch menu please click here.
Beat The Queue With Meal Stamps
Pupils will be able to beat the queues in the canteen by purchasing meal stamps (which are stamped in their planner) for pasta meals or meal deals. The stamps can be bought from the canteen during Breakfast Club or break. Then, at lunchtime, pupils can go straight to the serving point in the Courtyard Café to collect their chosen meal (including pasta, meal deals and daily specials).
Pasta meals – a delicious bowl of pasta with a tasty meat or vegetarian sauce costs £2.15 (£2.35 with extra cheese).
Meal deals are available at £2.50 for a main meal and a drink or dessert and £3 for a main meal, dessert and drink.
Stamps can only be used by the pupil who has purchased them and should be spent on the day of purchase. If they are not used on that day, a refund must be obtained on the same day from the canteen.
Please note that when purchasing a meal deal the drink option is a choice of one option from a bottle of water, a carton of orange juice or a carton of apple juice.
Free School Meals
Who is eligible?
You must be in receipt of one of the benefits below to be eligible for a Free School Meal for your child/children.
- Income Support
- Employment & Support Allowance – Income related
- Income Based Job Seekers Allowance (NOT Contribution Based JSA)
- Child Tax Credit only (with a combined family income of less than £16,190 per annum as assessed by HM Revenues & Customs) Please note, anyone receiving Working Tax Credit, regardless of income, will NOT qualify for FSMs.
- Working Tax Credit run-on - paid 4 weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit
- Universal Credit
- National Asylum Seekers Support (NASS)
- Guaranteed Element of Pension Tax Credit
To find out if you are eligible for free school meals you will need to visit the online portal. This is now the only way you can apply for free school meals. If you have not visited the portal before you will need to register your account. Parents and carers can find the portal here.
If you qualify, please show the Application Summary to the school on your smartphone or print a copy for us.
Please register with the portal, even if you have applied and been unsuccessful in the past. By doing so Milton Keynes Council will have your contact details and can inform you straight away if your eligibility changes.
In signing up you will help us to find out whether we can claim pupil premium for your child. This is additional funding that we can spend on providing a range of resources such as revision clubs and materials, literacy and numeracy support, careers advice and work related learning activities, extended curriculum courses and school trips.
