School Lunches

Our catering provider is Newcastle City Council.

In response to parent and carer feedback, we have implemented a fixed price menu for school meals to help parents to manage the amount of money being spent each lunchtime.

Your child will  have a choice of five set meal options to choose from, and each meal is a fixed cost of £3.00 (effective 7th April 2025). 

There is a selection of snacks and drinks available to buy at break and lunchtimes (see below)

All children will have access to drinking water, free of charge, from the water fountains in the dining hall.

We are confident that our system will make our lunchtime offer more inclusive and accessible to all pupils, and more easily understood by parents and carers. We will continue to review the offer and welcome your feedback to admin@gosforthcent.newcastle.sch.uk

Breaktime Offering

At breaktime, your child will be able to purchase the following drinks and snacks from the dining hall:

• Milk carton - £0.75
• Flavoured milk carton - £0.75
• Radnor water carton - £0.75
• Radnor fruit juice carton (apple or tropical flavour) - £0.85
• Piece of fruit - £0.65
• Yoghurt pot - from £0.70

 *prices effective from 07.04.2025

Lunchtime Offering

Your child will be able to purchase one of the following meal deals:

*where drinks are not included as part of a meal deal, they can be purchased at an additional cost (prices above) or water is available from the water fountains. 

 Pupils may also purchase additional fruit or yoghurt pots to supplement their meals at the prices listed above.

Halal Meals

Regrettably, due to space limitations for storage, preparation, and service of school meals we are unable to offer halal menu choices.  We try to offer a wide variety of meals including vegetarian meal options, however, due to the space limitations on the catering service we cannot provide sufficient dedicated space to offer halal meals.

Lunchtime Rota and Menus

The menu is rotated on a three week cycle and the sittings in the dining hall rotate as follows:

Spring Term 2 2024/25

Summer Term 2024/25

Useful Documents

• Summer Menu - Week 1
• Summer Menu - Week 2
• Summer Menu - Week 3

Food Allergies

Newcastle City Council work in partnership with the school to ensure that they are notified of pupils with allergies to help keep them safe.

Newcastle City Council adhere to the current legislation regarding food safety and packaging, including Natasha's Law which came into effect in October 2021.

We are NOT a nut-free school. Our school kitchen does not use nuts as a raw ingredient in its meals, however some of the products used to prepare meals and some of the pre-packaged snacks sold in the Dining Hall state on the packaging that they may contain nuts. We also cannot 100% guarantee that a child will not bring into school a product that may contain nuts. We encourage parents to refrain from sending in food items that contain nuts.

If your child has a food allergy, please inform the school immediately, and if you would like to discuss your child's food allergy or request a specialised diet from our school kitchen, please contact the Operations Manager for the GCMS site:

Jacqueline McEvoy

Tel: 0191 278 3297

Mobile:: 07773288885

Email: jacqueline.mcevoy@newcastle.gov.uk

Free School Meals

Your child may be eligible for Free School Meals through a variety of different eligibility criteria. Please visit the Newcastle City Council website for more information about eligibility criteria and how to apply.