School Meals
Dear Parents and Carers,
As you may know, from September we have a new catering company starting, IFG Primary (Innovate). The process for ordering your lunch will also be changing. All pupils will need to book their meal choice, minimum of one week in advance, by using the online ordering service (not ParentPay) a link will be provided to all families in due course. Please note that if your child is absent for any reason and have booked a meal it is your responsibility as parents to cancel the lunch via the Primary Support Team at Innovate. Contact details will be shared. As no refunds will be given for non-eaten meals as a result of absence. I have attached the menu for you to have a look, which will be served from September 2024. I hope this will be a positive change and more pupils will take up the meal options.
ltr to parents re lunches from 1 11 23.pdf
Free School Meals - What’s new?
Since September 2023 all children get a free school meal – regardless of their parents' income. Some children in year 3, 4, 5 and 6 may also be eligible for a free school meal if their parents/carers receive support. See list of benefits below.
Why do I need to apply for Free School Meals?
Families should apply if they get any of these benefits:
- Income Support
- Income Based Jobseekers Allowance
- Income Related Employment and Support Allowance
- Child Tax Credit with an annual income of less than £16,190, provided they are not receiving Working Tax Credit
- the ‘Guaranteed’ element of the State Pension Credit
- support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (you will need to apply directly to the school not Bradford Council)
- Working Tax Credit run-on (paid for 4 weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit)
- Universal Credit
If you are on any of the benefits listed above it’s important to still apply as any child registered for Free School Meals may get other help too:
- for every child registered, the school will get a “Pupil Premium”. This means the school gets £1,300 (Primary schools) per year for each child registered. This money is to help your child achieve their best at school.
- help with the cost of residential school trips
- help with school uniform costs
- help with council run music lessons at school
Click below to access further information and the application form.
New applications for Free School Meals should be completed and submitted via www.harrow.gov.uk/freeschoolmeals. Prior to doing this, please encourage parents to log in to the Free School Meal Eligibility Checker via https://pps.lgfl.org.uk. This will avoid the unnecessary completing of an application form should the parent not qualify and more importantly, help the school to identify as many children as possible for Pupil Premium as the school will be notified of the parent qualifying at the same time as the parent. Once the parent completes and submits the Harrow application form, Access Harrow will update systems for inclusion in the schools list. Please ensure that all children are included on the application.
