School meals

At Meryfield Community Primary School, we are very proud of our healthy school status.

A hot school meal is freshly prepared on the premises every day with a vegetarian option and lots of fruit, salad and vegetables. The children are able to choose between a hot meal or a school packed lunch.

Our kitchen provider SwiftKitchen uses a convenient online ordering system which parents/carers now have access to a hassle-free way of managing their child school lunch through their website and mobile app to order school meals from home.

SwiftKitchen Website

Alternatively, it may be more convenient for parents/carers to provide their children with a home packed lunch, or order a school meal on selected days and a packed lunch on other days.

Packed lunch 

We are a healthy school and provide suggestions for healthy packed lunches. 

If your child brings a packed lunch to school, it must be in an unbreakable container, clearly labelled with the child’s name and class. Definitely no glass containers or fizzy drinks please. 

Please remember that we are a nut free school.

Free school meals

All children in Foundation and Years 1 and 2 (Key Stage 1) are entitles to a universal free schools meal.

To continue receiving free school meals from Year 3 upwards, families need to receive any 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).

For more information, please contact the school office. All applications are treated confidentially.