School Meals

Please pay for your school dinners using the Arbor app.  Children will choose their meal as part of their registration in class.

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Nutritious, Inclusive, and Enjoyable School Meals

At our school, we’re proud to offer high-quality, nutritious meals that support the health and wellbeing of every child. In collaboration with our catering partner, Caterlink, we’ve developed a diverse three-week menu that reflects the tastes and needs of our whole school community—including pupils, staff, and families.

Our catering team is committed to:

  • Serving wholesome, balanced meals that meet national nutritional standards and promote lifelong healthy eating habits.
  • Celebrating diversity by offering food options that reflect the cultural backgrounds and preferences of our pupils, staff, and families.
  • Creating a positive dining experience that encourages social interaction, supports learning, and makes mealtimes something to look forward to.
  • Supporting extended school activities, including a nutritious breakfast service to help pupils start their day ready to learn.

We believe that good food is essential to good learning—and we’re dedicated to making every meal count.

All food served in our school is Halal certified.

The school currently sub contracts the provision of school meals for our children to  Caterlink. They are contracted to provide a healthy and nutritionally balanced meal, providing vegetarian options and Halal meat, if requested.

We have offered Halal meat and poultry, as standard, through this service for a number of years in response to requests from parents. We currently follow the Sheffield City Council’s policy on Halal meat and poultry. This states that all Halal meat used in school meals must be pre-stunned before slaughter.

Our Halal certificates, plus details of our meat and poultry suppliers, are available should any parent wish for more information.

Please note that alongside our Halal meat and poultry dishes, we also offer a good variety of nutritional, hot vegetarian meals, jacket potatoes and sandwiches with meat free fillings.

Breakfast – 7.45 – 8.20am

Free

Toast, vegetables, milk, fruit-juice, fruit, and breakfast tray selections are available free of charge.

We aim for all Abbeyfield children to arrive at the classroom fed and ready to learn.

We offer a healthy school breakfast, available to all FREE of charge, and enjoy the benefits that brings, with children settled and ready to learn at the start of the school day.

Families can drop their child off at the dining hall anytime between 7.45 and 8.20 or children can pick up breakfast from the trays on the gates.  

Caterlink also offer a cooked breakfast in the dining hall during breakfast club 7.45 – 8.20.

Free

Free options at breakfast club are pancakes, cheese toasties, egg, beans, fresh fruit.

Milk

The cost of Milk is approxmately £1.15 a week, payable termly in advance. If you would like to order milk for your child please check and pay on parentmail.

Children in KS1 –
As you know all children in KS1 receive free school meals.
However, this does not mean they will receive free milk. Milk has to be paid for unless you are entiteled to free school meals through Sheffield City Council.