Serving a huge range of healthy, freshly cooked food at breakfast, break and lunchtimes – from traditional British roast dinners to world cuisine – students are spoiled for choice. Cucina even offer an after-school ‘take-away’ service providing freshly cooked roast chickens or delicious pizzas for students to take home and share with their families.
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Free School Meals
Leigh Academy Minster processes all Free School Meals Applications.
Before you apply you will need to have the following information to hand:
- Your own name and date of birth
- Contact details
- National Insurance Number or National Asylum Seekers Number
- Child’s name and date of birth
- School your child is attending/ will attend.
Once submitted, parents/ carers are informed whether or not an application has been successful and if the child is eligible this will automatically be sent to the Academy. If the form states the student is not eligible and it is thought to be an error, parents/ carers need to contact the Academy.
All of the Academy’s meals meet the government’s food standards, which means they are healthy and nutritious.
If your application is not approved, but you receive one of the following benefits:
- 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)
- 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 run-on – paid for four weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit
Please contact the academy at: info@minster.latrust.org.uk with evidence of one or more of the above.