A hot lunch provision is offered to all children who attend Deanesfield School, from Nursery up to Year 6, with our weekly menus providing a nutritious selection of food freshly prepared by our catering team each day.

All children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 are entitled to receive these meals free of charge under the governments universal free school meals (USFM) funding. Children in Years 3 - 6 will also receive a free meal if entitled to Pupil Premium. If you do not fall within these categories, please ensure your ParentPay account has been activated with your lunch account credited for any meals ordered.

To help encourage their independence, children who do not bring in a packed lunch on any given day will be provided with a hot lunch. Parents are encouraged to actively engage in viewing the weekly menus with their child and discuss suitable preferences from the options available. Wherever possible, the school will always endeavour to provide your child with their first choice.

If you choose to send your child to school with a packed lunch, please ensure that your child can open their lunch independently or alternatively wrap food in a way that your child can access it easily without help. To help promote healthy eating, sweets or chocolate bars are not permitted and we also request that parents do not send in any items containing nuts to help ensure the safety of our children with allergies.

Christmas Lunch Menu (Wednesday 15th December 2021)

Please find below, the Christmas lunch menu being offered to all children on Wednesday 15th December:

Autumn/Winter Term Menu (November - December 2021)

Please find below the weekly menu cycle for the following second half of the Autumn term, as well as the allergens sheet for the menu:

Introducing Radish - Our New School Caterers

We are very excited to announce that as of the Summer Term 2021, we have partnered with a new catering supplier 'Radish' for the provision of our school lunches.

In partnership with Radish, as well as you as our parents and carers, we know we can provide our children with an exciting and varied lunch service offering healthy, nutritious and tasty meals.

Please find below Radish's Introductory Leaflet, giving further information and details about themselves and what they can offer us for your children, including their very first tri-weekly menu created just for us based on the feedback received from our recent survey to parents.