Active discussions

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Secondary education

Connect with other parents whose children are starting secondary school on this forum.

Original poster

Free school meals

29 replies

Motherof3feminists · 24/05/2019 17:35

My dd gets free school meals and the school has meals provided by Taylor Shaw. They are given £2.10 a day but most options seem to cost £1.90 leaving not enough for a drink or a piece of fruit. The slices of pizza are tiny and she often comes home "starving" as that's all she's had. The provision doesn't seem to be great for veggies and she says there's often not much left.

I am waiting for the school to get back to me but I wondered if this was how things are at secondary school? At primary (same company) they got a decent sized meal, and at least one pudding of not two! (Apparently this has been stopped now and I'm glad as she was having 3 pudding a day as I didn't know she was getting 2 at school!)

Maybe parents are supposed to subsidise meals once at secondary school?

OP posts:
RitaTheBeater · 24/05/2019 17:52

Ours is £2.30 a day and the ‘meal of the day’ which includes either the pudding or a piece of fruit is £2.30. If you have something that is not ‘meal of the day’ then it may not be an actual meal if you see what I mean. So a slice of pizza might cost the same but it’s not a meal.

Here is the menu from my county.

www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/media/1737073/school-meals-secondary.pdf

Grasspigeons · 24/05/2019 17:51

I dont think she needs a drink. She can take water, but a bit of fruit and a main should be covered. My son says the pizza slices arent a whole meal at his school they are about £1 and you are meant to buy chips / salad as a sepeate dish. He finds the meals more filling than at primary. But its a different company

Original poster
Motherof3feminists · 24/05/2019 17:44

She takes a big bottle of water and a snack but she's not getting enough at lunch. She eats a good breakfast too. She's built like a whippet and eats like a horse!

Is it £2.10 a day that you give your dc? What can they get for that?

OP posts:
MyDcAreMarvel · 24/05/2019 17:39

I pay for my eldest dd school meals , she takes tap water and an apple or similiar with her. So I think the £2.10 is adequate.

Please create an account

To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.

Join Mumsnet Log In

This thread is closed and is no longer accepting replies. Click here to start a new thread.

Swipe left for the next trending thread