SwiftKitchen - NEW Online Booking System from September 2025

From 4th September 2025, Aspens will be using a new system for school meal ordering called SwiftKitchen. By the end of July your child/children will bring home a letter which contains your login details. Please keep these letters safe and wherever possible set-up the new system as soon as possible. Even though we will continue to use Select until the end of this academic year there will be no time for the school to reissue passwords before meal ordering on the first day of Term 1, so it's really important that you do this ready for the first day back to school. The letters will also have the name of your child's/children's new class.

If you have any credit on Select after 22nd July the system will issue you with a refund.

Please also note the price of meals will increase to £2.65 from September.
If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact the school.

Here is a useful  User Guide for SwiftKitchen below:

Special Diets Information

If your child has an allergy or requires a special diet please review the additional information below from Aspens our school meals provider. 

You will need to complete a special diet request form and return it to the School Office.

ASPENS SCHOOL MEALS - May 2021:   We are delighted to announce that following a tendering process for school meals Aspens were the successful company who will take over our school meals from 7th June 2021. 

A copy of the latest Menu can be found at the top of this page. The 'school packed lunch' option will continue alongside the other menu options, consisting of a freshly filled sandwich or roll, healthy snack, home bake and piece of fruit.

Jacket Potatoes with assorted fillings are also provided daily as an additional option.

School meals are eaten in the school dining hall and children with packed lunches also eat outside when the weather is fine.  Please be aware that as some children in school have nut allergies, nut products are not permitted in children's lunch boxes (ie. nutella, peanut butter sandwiches, raisin and nut mix etc.)

Please note that if your child is currently in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 - they are entitled to a nutritionally balanced packed lunch for free each day as part of the current Universal Infant Free School Meals scheme.

(Our amazing kitchen team and lunchtime supervisors served around 300 Christmas roast lunches
on 15th December)

FREE SCHOOL MEAL Applications / Pupil Premium Grant

Parents will need to apply online using the 'Free School Meal Checker' link below: 

Click here >> www.n-somerset.gov.uk/freeschoolmeals

IMPORTANT: You should still apply if you claim benefits and have a child in Reception, Year 1 or Year 2. This is to:

• make you eligible for other financial assistance for items such as school trips
• enable a school to receive the funding it is entitled to
• avoid any issues with your child’s school meals when moving from Year 2 to Year 3

Children attending school whose parents or carers receive any of the following benefits are eligible to receive the Pupil Premium Grant - also entitling pupils to free school meals: 

• child tax credits (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 with annual Take Home Pay / Net Earnings below £7,400 (which equals  £616.67 per month) benefits not included
• guarantee element of state pension credit
• income support
• income-based jobseeker’s allowance
• income-related employment support allowance
• support under part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999

There are changes to the free school meals application process, due to the roll out of Universal Credit.

Eligible pupils will remain entitled to free school meals until the end their current phase of education, as at March 2025, regardless of benefit changes.

If you are currently entitled to free school meals you will not have to reapply until your child changes school after September 2025.

HEALTHY EATING

We have achieved Healthy Schools Status which means that we actively promote healthy eating and healthy lifestyles. In Reception and Key Stage 1, children are provided with a piece of fruit every day as part of their morning snack. In Key Stage 2 we encourage children to eat and drink healthily during snack and lunch time.