School Meals
Every child in The Griffin Federation has the opportunity to have a hot meal or packed lunch provided by Ideal School Meals. When your child starts school, we will create a login and password to enable you to order meals, if you are ordering paid meals then payment is made directly to the caterer.
Please see the links below for some example menus and a parent’s guide for how to order online (please be aware that meal prices have increased since the guide was created). Children can choose from numerous options: the main meal, a vegetarian option, jacket potato & filling or a selection of packed lunches.
Children who are in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 receive Universal Free School Meals. Children in other year groups can have a paid meal at a cost of £2.70 per day.
If you receive any benefits, you should tell your school as they can get extra funding called the Pupil Premium grant. This includes:
- Universal Credit – your household income must be less than £7,400 a year (after tax and not including any benefits you get)
- 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 state Pension Credit
- Child Tax Credit (provided you’re not also entitled to Working Tax Credit and have an annual gross income of no more £16,190)
- Working Tax Credit run-on – paid for four weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit
Children who get paid these benefits directly can also get free school meals. To apply for free school meals please use the following link https://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/school-pupil-support/apply-free-school-meals
Children will not automatically be entitled to free school meals if a sibling has them, you will still need to go through the application process for children starting in Reception.
Ordering School Meals
Menus are available for the full school term, and you are free to order meals for a week, or the entire term at a time. The
deadline for placing orders falls on a Tuesday at 9.00am, for the following week. After this time, the system cannot accept any
further orders. We try to remain flexible but ask that parents contact us by email or telephone, at the earliest opportunity,
should you miss the deadline.
You can either click the link in your confirmation email or enter the
www.schoolmealsonline.com / www.schoolsmealsonline.co.uk address in to
your internet address bar.
Documents
Parent User Guide – Ideal School Meals
