School Services Food and Drink The school serves a wide range of high quality dinners, which are planned to provide a balanced and healthy diet with a choice of food every day. All children in school are provided with a cooked meal free of charge through the Government Universal Free School Meals offer. Also as part of this offer, every child is entitled to a free packed lunch when going out of school on an educational visit. In addition to the Universal Free School Meals offer, some families may be eligible for a Pupil Premium Payment to school. You may be eligible if you receive Child Benefit and another benefit such as Income Support or Income based Jobseekers Allowance. If you think your child may be entitled to a Pupil Premium payment to school, please get in touch. Children not wanting a school dinner can bring a packed lunch to school. As we are an accredited Healthy School, we ask parents to ensure the lunch children bring to school is varied and nutritious. Large chocolate bars, cakes and sweets are therefore not permitted in school. Milk is available to all children in school and is free for all children up to their fifth birthday. After this, parents can choose to pay if they wish their child to still have milk on a daily basis. If you would like to order milk for your child please pick up a registration form from the school office. Snacks are not allowed in school except as part of a packed lunch. Drinks for the children should not be in glass containers or cans, for safety reasons. Fresh water is always available for children and the school provides every child with a drinking bottle to be used during the school day. Also, fruit is provided free of charge for every child and is eaten at playtimes within KS1 and during continuous provision in EYFS.
School Health Service
Illness & Absence
The School Health Service offers a service in and through school to help with the health and well-being of your child. The nurse from the School Health Service visits school regularly. A medical examination and assessment is offered to a sample of the children in their first year at school. Prior to this, hearing, sight, weight and height checks are made of all children.
If your child is taken ill at school, we will contact you. Children who are unwell will need to be collected from school by a known adult. If your child is absent from school through illness, please contact the school office by telephoning before 9.30am stating the reason for absence. If your child has to attend a dental or medical appointment during the school day, please give the school evidence of this in advance, especially if your child will arrive late on that day.
Sight and hearing can be checked again at other times at the request of parents, teachers and other professionals. Your child and you can be seen by the nurse at your request or the request of a teacher/other professional. The School Health Service can arrange referral to other clinics or help from other professionals if necessary. The school nurse offers advice on health promotion.
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Headteachers are unable to grant any leave of absence during term time unless there are exceptional circumstances. If you take your child out of school during term time, without the schools authorisation, the Headteacher will make a request to the Local Authority to issue a Fixed Penalty Notice.
