School Meal Information
Healthy Eating and Menus
Bradford Academy hot meal offering is changed weekly, a new menu is brought out every Friday for the following week. The menu includes all aspects the healthy eating guidline mainly following:
- We only have fried foods once a week, Thursday being our day for fried chips for secondary and Friday for primary.
- Sausage and processed meat products are used once fortnightly.
- No chocolate is used in our home baking.
- No sweets, crisps, chocolate bars or drinks with added sugar are available.
- Condiments are only available in sachet form.
- No salt is available to be added to the food after cooking.
- All the cold drinks are school approved and without added sugar.
- Salad is offered with each main meal choice as well as two vegetables.
Besides the normal daily hot meal choice of either a meat or vegetarian meal we offer jacket potatoes with a variety of fillings. A large variety of baguettes, sandwiches, plated salads, pasta salads, chicken wraps with salad, yoghurts, fruit salad and grape pots.
Healthy Eating Menus
School Lunches
School lunches are priced as below and meals must be paid for in advance. You can pay for learners meals either via Arbor our online payment system where you can also track your child’s daily purchases or payment can be made via the card readers within school.
Nursery | £2.20 |
| Primary | £2.45 |
| Secondary | £2.75 |
Free School Meals
In England, all children in reception class, year 1, and year 2 are eligible for universal free school meals. This means that if your child is in one of these year groups and attends a government-funded school, they will receive free school meals automatically.
If you also receive certain benefits, it’s important to inform your local authority, as your child’s school can receive additional funding called ‘Pupil Premium’ to support their education.
Parents or guardians should apply for free school meals if they receive certain benefits:
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)
This is important because, in addition to the universal free school meals for children in reception class, year 1, and year 2, children in other year groups may also be eligible for free school meals if their family meets the criteria.
Applying for free school meals not only ensures that your child receives a nutritious meal at school, but it also helps the school receive additional funding called ‘Pupil Premium’ to support your child’s education. If you think you might be eligible, you can apply through the Academy, you can either request for the form from the admin office or you can access a form on Arbor for your ease.
Your child’s eligibility for free school meals in England depends on their year group and your family’s circumstances:
Universal Free School Meals: All children in reception class, year 1, and year 2 are eligible for universal free school meals. This means they will automatically receive free school meals during these years.
Means-Tested Free School Meals: For children in other year groups, eligibility is based on your family’s receipt of certain benefits. If you continue to receive these qualifying benefits, your child will remain eligible for free school meals. The qualifying benefits include Income Support, Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance, Income-related Employment and Support Allowance, and others.
It’s important to keep your local authority informed of any changes in your circumstances, as this may affect your child’s eligibility for free school meals.
Bradford Academy Breakfast
Here at the Academy we are ensuring that no child is too hungry to learn through the provision of healthy breakfast food . A hungry child cannot concentrate so will miss out on half a day of lessons, every day, if not given anything to eat.
This means that all learners can access breakfast at the Academy free of charge.
The breakfast includes:
- Bagels
- Porridge
- Cereals
At BA breakfast is healthy and nutritious. It is designed to give children energy, protein, vitamins and minerals, and is low in sugar, salt and fat.
In the primary phase the breakfast club opens at 07:45 for all learners and this provision is a bookable resource – please contact the office for further details. We will also deliver bagels to classrooms at 08:15 for when learners are arriving for learners to access.
In the secondary phase the breakfast provision is available from 07:30 until 08:15.
