School Meals
Our school meals are provided by Hutchison Catering, an independent, family-run catering supplier that maintains a traceable supply chain, and values ethical farming practices and locally sourced food where possible. We recognise that a great school food culture improves pupil health and wellbeing and Hady pupils enjoy freshly made food in our bright and cheery school hall every day.
All about Hutchison
Hutchison regularly gather ideas and feedback from pupils so that they can provide tempting, nutritionally balanced and wide-ranging food options that our pupils will enjoy. We work with Hutchison to:
- offer tasty, nutritionally balanced meals
- offer crudités and jugs of water on the tables
- cater for a wide range of dietary requirements
- use local suppliers wherever possible
- make sure that 80% of our dishes are freshly prepared
- follow the standards set by the Soil Association Food for Life Partnership
- maintain a 50star hygiene rated kitchen
- minimise packaging
- recycle as much as possible
Dietary requirements
All food products and menus will be clearly labelled where applicable, and all catering staff receive allergen training.
Special dietary requirements including vegetarian, vegan, Halal, gluten free and allergies can be accommodated. Please contact office@hadyprimary.chorustrust.org for further information.
Paying for school meals
Nursery
We offer our nursery children the opportunity to stay for a lunchtime meal if desired. The charge for this is: £2.50 (for the food) plus £3 (for childcare). Further information is available on our nursery lunches page.
Reception, Year 1 and Year 2
All children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 are entitled to free school meals, funded by the government. Even if your child is in Reception, Year 1 or Year 2, and you think you may be entitled to free school meals when your child gets older, please still apply for this funding as it means that we also then receive pupil premium funding, which will help us to provide further support for your child.
Years 3, 4, 5 and 6
School meals will be charged at £3.25 per day.
We use a cashless catering payment system (ParentPay) and your child’s dinner money account can be paid for, in advance, using this. Meals must be paid for in advance and if your account does fall into arrears, you may need to provide your child with a packed lunch.
Free School Meals
Your child may be entitled to free school meals if your family receives any of the following:
- Universal Credit
- income-related Employment and Support Allowance
- the guaranteed element of Pension Credit
- support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
- support as a family with no recourse to public funds (NRPF)
Applying is straightforward, confidential and saves you money every year.
How do Free School Meals work?
Your child’s lunch account is automatically and confidentially credited with enough money for their school meal each day.
During lunchtime there is no distinction made between those receiving free school meals and those who do not.
At the start of each school year, the local authority will check the eligibility of new applications for FSM and current pupils with FSM, after which all eligible students will be entitled to FSM for the full academic year.
Pupil Premium
Did you know that if pupils receive Targeted Free School Meals, we’re automatically allocated Pupil Premium funding?
This grant allows us to make significant improvements to the education we can offer in school, especially for our disadvantaged students.
Further information
No nuts in school
Please do not send your child to school with any nuts, or products that contain nuts (such as in pesto or a hazelnut filling). We have children at school with severe nut allergies who are at risk of significant reactions even being in close proximity of a food containing nut products.
Packed lunches
Your child may bring a healthy packed lunch to school, in a named container. Please do not include drinks as fresh drinking water is provided in school, and bear in mind that we will not be able to refrigerate your child’s packed lunch.
Drinking water
Children may bring a bottle of water (not cordial or fizzy drinks) to have with them during lessons. We request that water bottles have sports caps to minimise the number of spillages.