Lunchtime runs from 12.15pm to 1.30pm.  Children from the same class sit at the same lunch table, under supervision, whether they have a school meal or bring a packed lunch from home.

The school provides water for all pupils at lunchtime; however, children should also bring in their own personal water bottles every day (no other liquids, such as fruit juice or squash, should be included) – which need to be labelled with their name and class.

School Meals

Our school meals are provided by the Greenshaw Learning Trust via Park Hill Junior School. School meals are free for all Infant aged children - (Reception to Year 2).   The menu is rotated every 2 weeks and the current menu can be downloaded and viewed using the links below:

Download our Summer term menu 2026 here. 

Any enquiries or feedback regarding the menu should be made directly to the Greenshaw Learning Trust - you can send an email to enquiries@parkhill-inf.croydon.sch.uk and we will send this onto the Greenshaw Trust. 

You must ensure that staff at our school are kept up to date with any allergy or dietary requirements that your child has. If your child has developed a new allergy or dietary requirement that is not listed on their original application form, please contact our school office as soon as possible on 020 8680 0747 or email enquiries@parkhill-inf.croydon.sch.uk 

The school meals meet the mandatory requirements of the School Food Standards 2015. The menus are nutritionally analysed to ensure they meet and in most cases exceed The School Food Standards with Halal Suitable and Vegan options available. Therefore, these meals should not be subsidised with food from home, including condiments such as Tomato Sauce or Mayonnaise. You are welcome to provide your child with a packed lunch from home every day, or on days where the school dinner is not to their taste.

 

Free School Meals

All pupils in Reception, Years 1 and 2 are entitled to Universal Infant Free School Meals. However, some families are also eligible for “free school meals” and we would like to encourage you to find out if this applies to your family.

Why register for free school meals?

 

Children who are registered for free school meals don’t have to have a school dinner, they can to have a packed lunch but registering is still important. For every child registered for free school meals, the school receives an extra £1,515 through ‘pupil premium’ funding.

 

Therefore, every child registered for free school meals makes a big difference to the school.

 

The Pupil Premium funding is allocated to schools for children of school age from low-income families who are known to have been eligible for free school meals (FSM) in the last 6 years; for children who have been adopted from care or who have left care; and for children whose parents are currently serving in the armed forces.

 

We publish information online about how we use the Pupil Premium funding, such as providing additional small group interventions for reading, writing and maths for children as well as a wealth of other additional initiatives that support children’s learning.  We have also bought specialist resources for these projects and invested in high quality training.

You can find more information about pupil premium on the Pupil Premium page of our website.

 

Is my child eligible for free school meals?

If you receive these benefits, your child may be eligible:

• Income Support
• Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance or 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 (as long as you’re not also entitled to Working Tax Credit) if you have an annual gross income of no more than £16,190
• Working Tax Credit run-on - but not if you receive Working Tax Credit
• Universal Credit, if your earned income after tax is £616.67 per month (£7,400 per year) or less.

https://www.croydon.gov.uk/education/schools-new/free-school-meals

To apply for Free School Meals, please contact the school office and complete a form. We treat all information you give us confidentially; it is shared only on a ‘need-to-know’ basis and we ensure all children are treated fairly when letters are sent out requesting payments to the school. We do not publish identifying details of children registered for FSM.

School Packed Lunch

Packed lunches can be ordered on days where children are attending school visits and order forms will be provided by the school office prior to school visit dates with a deadline for orders to be returned. 

 

Home Packed Lunch

Your child may bring into school a packed lunch from home.  

 

Nuts and peanuts can cause allergic reactions, which are sometimes severe. Please ensure that packed lunches do not contain any nuts or nut products, such as peanut butter and Nutella/ chocolate spread. We are a nut-free school.

 

Please prepare all food so that it is ready for your child to eat (peel oranges for example) and please ensure that the food container is clearly marked with both your child’s and their class teacher’s name. 

 

Packed lunches should aim to include:

 

• Some starchy foods such as bread (sliced bread, pitta bread, wraps, bagels), pasta, potatoes, couscous; choose wholegrain where possible

 

• 1 portion of fruit and 1 portion of vegetables or salad

 

• Dairy food such as cheese or yoghurt (plain or fruit)

 

• Meat, fish, or another source of protein such as eggs, beans and pulses, hummus, falafel

 

• Oily fish once every 3 weeks e.g. sardines or salmon

 

Please ensure that you keep the school updated of any changes to your child’s dietary requirements.

 

Please note that all children will automatically be given a hot lunch unless they bring a packed lunch from home on the day, or the office has previously received a school packed lunch request.