Lunchtimes
Menus & Information About School Meals
Log onto your child's Squid Account Here
Help with setting up your child's Squid Account - Link to Squid's help section
Apply for Free School Meals Online
Order Your Child's School Meal Below
To enable the school kitchen to order the correct ingredients to produce our school meals, please pre-order your child's meals using the links below. If you have not ordered a meal we cannot guarantee to provide a school dinner for your child. If you have ordered a meal and your child is absent, you will not be charged for their meal.
Use this link to order your child's dinner for 15th April 2024 - Please order by 26th March 2024
Reminder 22-25 April is Whitby residential visit for Year 3 & 4. If you would like to book a meal for the Friday, please enter 'sandwiches from home' on Monday - Thursday - Thank you)
Use this link to order your child's dinner 7th - 10th May - Please order by 28th April 2024
Use this link to order your child's dinners for 13th - 17th May 2024 - Please order by 5th May 2024
Use this link to order your child's dinner for 20th - 24th May 2024 - Please order by 12th May 2024
Use this link to order your child's dinner for 4th - 7th June 2024 - Please order by 19th May 2024
Use this link to order your child's dinner for 10th - 14th June 2024 - Please order by 2nd June 2024
Lunchtimes at Peafield Lane
Children can choose whether to have a hot school dinner or bring a packed lunch. We are bringing in a new system to order your child's lunch in advance to keep costs as low as possible and wastage to a minimum. Order forms will be sent out to order meals two weeks in advance.
Paying for school meals is quite straightforward: you can pay online using your child’s Squid account (please see the school office for your login details and help with setting this up if needed). If your child is in Acorns (FS2) , Year 1 or Year 2 they will be entitled have their school dinners at no charge. Please see the leaflet for Universal Free School Meals above for more information, or speak to a member of staff.
Lunches are organised in ‘sittings’ whereby those children having a hot meal tend to eat first whilst others have a playtime, then, as they finish the packed lunch children come in to have their meals.
We operate a ‘family service’ system which promotes responsibility amongst our oldest children and encourages conversation around the table. Midday staff circulate to ensure children act responsibly towards each other, that they have a good, standard sized potion of food and that table manners are at their best. Children are taught to use knives and forks properly.
Once outside children are given a wide range of activities to choose from: football pitches are set up and cover half of the astroturf, different zones for skipping, cricket, tennis and other athletic activities are also set out. There are quiet areas with tables for drawing on and giant connect 4 as well as the ‘Teletubbie Land’ zone with hills and grass for our younger children to roll about on and engage in free play.
As well as the several midday staff on duty we now have two teaching assistants outside each day whose role is to set up and co-ordinate large group games such as ‘stick-in-the-mud’, ‘tag-bulldog’, ‘grandma’s footsteps’ and more.
We love our lunchtimes at Peafield; there’s loads to do and they’re great fun.
Free School Meals
Your child may be entitled to receive 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
The information needed to register includes:
- Personal details (including national insurance number and date of birth) for you and your partner.
- Child's details in full including their date of birth and the school they attend
- If eligible for free school meals and/or milk the start date will normally be within two days of parents contacting the office and entitlement being verified. The office will also write to confirm the date the child's free school meals and milk will start. Children transferring between Nottinghamshire schools need not re-apply.
Please use the link above to apply online or telephone the Free School Meals Team on 0300 500 8080