School Meals & Breakfast Club

(College)

School Meals & Breakfast Club

We offer students the option of attending breakfast sessions, these are for those students that may have missed the first important meal of the day. We offer toast and a hot or cold drink from 8.30am until 8.50am. Lunchtime is from 12:25pm to 1:35pm. Students choose their meal from a healthy range of options as they arrive at college each day. A vegetarian and Halal option is available every day. Several of our students have severe nut allergies, so we are a nut free school. School meals can be paid for securely through Arbor. The price for a school meal will be £2.90 per day, this will be changed in line with Local Authority increases and School does not set the price of a school meal. We will inform parents in advance of any changes to the price.  

An example menu is available on request.  

Home Packed Lunches 

As a College, we recommend that a packed lunch should include nutritious contents based on your young person’s calorie and dietary requirements. However, please note, we do not allow energy drinks (for example, Red Bull, Monster). At the College, we have water dispensers on each floor and we will provide your young person with a reusable water bottle if they do not possess their own.  

Free School Meals 

Funding is allocated to colleges according to the number of their students who are registered to receive ‘free school meals’ (or have done so at any time in the preceding six years), 'Looked after children', adopted from care, under a special guardianship order, a residence order or a child arrangements order having left care or families with a parent in the regular armed forces. 

Families who meet the criteria listed below should automatically be registered for free school meals with the local authority, even if their child(ren) prefers, and will continue to have, packed lunches:  

•      Income Support (IS) 

•      Income-based Jobseekers Allowance (IBJSA) 

•      Income-related Employment and Support Allowance 

•      Support from NASS (National Asylum Support Service) under part 6 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 

•      The guaranteed element of State Pension Credit 

•      Child Tax Credit (with no Working Tax Credit) with an annual income of no more than £16,190 

•      Working Tax Credit run-on 

•      Universal Credit 

If you have any queries about free school meals, you can contact the council by emailing benefits@oldham.gov.uk