Fairlop Primary School

Years 3,4,5&6 - all payments for dinner money (£2 per day) must be paid online. Register on the Feeding Hungry Minds website if you have not done so already by clicking on the icon below.

Click to register

Please make sure that your account is in credit or your child will not receive a school dinner. If you think you may be eligible for benefit related Free School Meals, please see the section below to find out how to apply  or contact Mrs Dawson in the school office for support.

We no longer take payments for school dinners via the school office. 

Here are some useful videos on using the online payments and meal ordering system:

General introduction:       https://www.screencast.com/t/llkUECNrPl

Register:                              https://www.screencast.com/t/V4nZP6qh

Log In                                   https://www.screencast.com/t/l7fEhY3CEOE

Add Child                             https://www.screencast.com/t/8hkAKHXgl7hs

Top up Balance                   https://www.screencast.com/t/BrTllKj5

Order Meal                          https://www.screencast.com/t/TyCowgRUfl

View Orders                         https://www.screencast.com/t/xPXK9JTpXy

Feedback Form                    https://www.screencast.com/t/PxyUZPvmt6

View Basket                          https://www.screencast.com/t/jxTrNSfB

Edit Account Details            https://www.screencast.com/t/Asbrz5ET

View Transaction history    https://www.screencast.com/t/lVKAg9cS9

Saved Card Details              https://www.screencast.com/t/NhEsnVfkx

Log out                                  https://www.screencast.com/t/qfsx2ZZf3V

If children bring a packed lunch it must be contained in a lunch box clearly named. Boxes will be placed on the class trolley. Please ensure that no glass or any other breakable container is used in the interests of safety. In line with our Healthy School London Bronze Award, we have aim to be 'water or milk only' at Fairlop. Packed lunches should not include any fizzy drinks, fruit drinks or energy drinks. Children are encouraged to bring in a water bottle from home and drinking water is always available in school.

Plastic bottles may be recycled or reused. As little packaging as possible is recommended for the packed lunches and this will be returned in lunch boxes.

Sweets are not permitted in school and healthy lunches including fruit are encouraged.

Please remember that we are a NUT FREE school. If a child has a packed lunch item containing nuts, they will be asked to eat it in an area away from the other children or keep it to eat at home.

The NHS change4life website has lots of ideas for healthier lunch boxes and some great recipes. Get loads of easy-to-prepare ideas your children will love, as well as tips on what else to put in their lunchbox.

Change for Life website

All children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 are entitled to a hot free school meal. However, if your child is in Reception, Year 1 or Year 2 and you receive one of the listed qualifying benefits, you should make an application for free school meals as the school your child attends will receive extra funding. 

If your child is in Year 3 or above, and you receive one of the listed qualifying benefits, you should make an application for free school meals. 

You will need to apply for Free School Meals via your local authority.
Redbridge Free School Meals Application

Qualifying benefits for free school meals  

• Income Support
• Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
• Income-related Employment and Support Allowance
• Support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
• The guarantee element of Pension Credit
• Child Tax Credit (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 is a disqualifying benefit regardless of your household income - this means that you would not be entitled to Free School Meals whilst in receipt of Working Tax Credit
• Working Tax Credit run-on – paid for four weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit
• Universal Credit (provided you have an annual net earned income of no more than £7,400, as assessed by earnings from up to three of your most recent assessment periods)