Catering & Free School Meals

We are always in the mood for good food!

We are Aspens Services, a market-leading contract catering company specialising in school food.

We only work in the education sector so we know what our customers want. Mixing this knowledge with an understanding of what’s hot in the food world sparks creativity and excitement in our chefs. Our kitchens provide delicious home-cooked food each day and cater for individual dietary requirements.

Streateries

Streateries is our secondary meal offer where every day has a theme. Featuring global cuisines, customised offers and food on the move, we are bang up to date with the current trends whilst still ensuring that there is a place on the menu for the comfort of our

Familiar school dining hall favourites. Each day the menu includes as standard a street food dish, a handheld version, vegetarian/vegan choices along with a selection of sides.

Deli Kitchen

Our Deli Kitchen brand is for the popular standard Aspens hot and cold offers. This can range from Authentic Italian pizza and pasta, Hacienda Mexicana’s burritos, rice pots and sides and Voulez Poulet’s house rub chicken, dogs and sides through to our range of healthy sandwiches, paninis, wraps, jacket potatoes, salads, fruit and cold dessert pots.

Special Diets

Special diets are an integral part of our catering provision, whether as a result of an ethical or religious belief or a food intolerance or allergy. To register any special diets as a requirement please complete and return the special diets form to the school as soon as possible.

Our Planet

We work closely with our clients and suppliers to be as environmentally friendly as we can. By making lots of small changes, we can make a big difference. We care about the future and continue to focus on responsible sourcing, using seasonal produce, increasing our focus on plant-based recipes, making our menus more sustainable, keeping waste to a minimum and reusing and recycling to reduce the impact we have.

Free school meals

To qualify for free school meals, you must be in receipt of at least one of the following:

Universal Credit (provided you have an annual net earned income of no more than £7400, as assessed by earnings from up to three of your most recent assessment periods)
Income Support
Income-related Employment and Support Allowance
Income Based Jobseeker’s Allowance
Support from NASS under Part VI of the Immigration & Asylum Act 1999
Child Tax Credit (provided you are not also entitled to Working Tax Credit and have an annual gross household income of no more than £16,190)
The guaranteed element of State Pension Credit
Working Tax Credit run-on – paid for four weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit

If you would like to apply for Free School Meals you can either:

Apply online at https://www.cloudforedu.org.uk/ofsm/link2ict.
Download and fill in the form below and we can check your eligibility using the secure government website.

Please contact reception if you require further details. A copy of the User Guide can be downloaded below.

You will only be asked to provide proof of benefit if we cannot definitely confirm your eligibility. The system will continue to check your eligibility periodically and we will only contact you again if we cannot verify your eligibility.

If your application for Free School Meals is successful, St Peter’s Collegiate Academy will receive extra funding from the Government to use in support of teaching and learning.

St Peter's Collegiate Academy