Academy Lunches
We encourage a healthy balanced diet at Oasis Academy Sholing, offering students the opportunity to choose from a variety of options, whether that is a packed lunch or school meal.
The Academy canteen offers a great selection of meals all purchasable. This includes the option of a cooked hot meal or freshly made sandwich and snack. Alternatively students may bring a packed lunch. We ask parents and carers providing packed lunches to choose healthy options with a balanced selection of food. These will help your child to stay healthy and to concentrate in lessons. We kindly ask that parents do not place sweets in packed lunches. Students are encouraged to bring a water bottle to school each day. We do not allow energy drinks or fizzy drinks to be brought into the academy.
For information on how you can pay for your child's academy lunches click here
Applying for Free School Meals
Free school meals are available to children whose parents/carers are in receipt of the following:
- 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 guaranteed 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 run-on - paid for 4 weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit
- Universal Credit - if you apply on or after 1 April 2018 your household income must be less than £7,400 a year (after tax and not including any benefits you get)
If you are unsure whether or not your child is entitled to a free school meal, you can now check your entitlement by completing an online application form using this link: https://www.cloudforedu.org.uk/ofsm/link2ict/apply/applicant. If you need help with completing the application or you would like us to do this on your behalf, please email info@oasissholing.org
For those parents whose child(ren) is/are already in receipt of this benefit, you will not need to complete this form or provide us with any proof of your eligibility as we will automatically be informed of your child(ren)'s entitlement. If we are advised of a change in your circumstances, we will inform you immediately that we will no longer be able to provide a free school meal. If you are unsure whether or not you have completed an application form from the start of the new academic year, please contact us so we can check for you.