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The School Day & Meals

Please see below the timings for our school day.

Times
Description
8:45am - 8:55am Key Stage 2 - Doors opened, children make way to their classrooms
8:55am - 9:05am Key Stage 1 and Early Years - Doors opened, children make way to their classrooms
9:05am  School gates are locked 
10am - 11:15am Staggered break times for all year groups
11:30am - 12:30pm  Lunch - Reception, Years 1 & 2
12:30pm - 1:30pm  Lunch Years 3 to 6
1:45pm - 2pm  Afternoon break -Years 1 & 2
3:20pm Key Stage 2: School day finishes
3:30pm Key Stage 1 and Early Years: School day finishes
3:20pm - 4:30pm* After school clubs offered - time dependent on individual club

School Meals

Here at the Deans we offer a wide range of choices for children who wish to take a school dinner. Our menu is updated regularly and runs on a three week cycle to keep the choices varied. Children on school dinners also have access to a salad bar to supplement their dinner and encourage healthy choices.

Meal Prices

Reception to Year 2 (Universal Free School Meals)

Year 3 to Year 6 – £2.10 a day (£10.50 per week)

If you think your child/children may be eligible for income related Free School Meals, please click here for more information.

Ordering Lunches

Parents can choose the dinners with their children by logging into our Evolve menu system. Each parent has a login for this system, and meals should be chosen two weeks in advance. For example, meals for week beginning Monday 17th May would need to be chosen by 9am on Monday 3rd May. Generally, meals can be selected for at least each whole term in advance, and changes can be made up to two weeks prior to the meal being taken. If you need a reminder of your login details, or have any issues at all using the system, please contact the school office and we will help. More information can be found under the tab below.

Packed Lunches

Pupils are welcome to move between packed lunches and school dinners – we request two week’s notice if your child wishes to change in either way.

Children at school should have about a third of their daily nutrient requirements at lunchtime. This means they need food that is going to provide them with enough energy, protein, fibre, vitamins and minerals.

A healthy packed lunch should contain a variety of foods. 

A good packed lunch contains:

  • A starchy food, such as bread, rolls, pitta bread, naan bread, potatoes, rice, noodles.
  • A good source of protein, iron and zinc such as meat, fish, beans, nuts or eggs.
  • A good source of calcium such as milk, cheese, yoghurt or fromage frais.
  • And one portion of fruit and one portion of vegetable or salad to provide all the other vitamins and minerals.

Due to severe allergies of both some of our pupils and staff, we are a Nut Free school - this means that no nut containing products are allowed in any packed lunches - this includes, but is not limited to, nut-based chocolate spreads such as Nutella, nut containing snack mixes etc. We also do not allow fizzy drinks, sweets or chocolate in packed lunches, or reheated takeaway or "fast" food like McDonalds - we do not feel that these are nutritionally appropriate for pupils during the school day.

Evolve Payment System for School Dinners

It is the responsibility of all parents/guardians to order their child/ren's dinners at home through Salford's Online Evolve system.

To log into your child's account you must go to Evolve by clicking here.

Ordering meals

To order meals for your child you will need to click on Service, and from the drop down list choose Primary meals:

If you are not already in your child’s account the screen will ask Who’s Eating, allowing you to click on a name.

The school menu will open and defaults to the current day

PC/ Laptop View – with the days of the week down the right hand side of the screen

Phone or Tablet view - with the days of the week at the bottom of the screen on tabs.

To select a meal click on the picture. The meal choice will turn red on the main screen:
And will be added to your meal list on the left PC/ Laptop view

Phone and Tablet View: You can see the meals selected on the course headers. These headers also open and close up when you press on the arrows.

Note: All meals have allergen and dietary information next to their picture, to see what the icons stand for just click/ press on them.

Once all meals have been chosen click/ press on Add to Basket

The number next to the basket tells you how many meals you have added.

Once you have added to the basket all your meal choices will be highlighted in yellow. This is to show they have been selected but not yet processed.

Now click on the basket to make any payments and process your meal selections:

Before you click on Process you can Remove any items that you no longer want, or Save an item that you do not want to process yet.

Once you are ready to order click on Process, if you do not pay for your school meals you will see a message thanking you for your order.

If you do pay for school meals you will be taken to the payment page.

After entering your card details you can choose for your card to be remembered. If you choose this option you will be asked to enter your phone number for security details.

Reviewing Allergies and Dietary Preferences

Your activation letter will also tell you if there are any food allergies or dietary preferences recorded against your child.

If these are wrong or incomplete you need to change these in the system, so that your child only sees meals that are applicable to them.

To change these you will need to click on Accounts in the top right of your screen and choose your child’s name.

You will notice once you have chosen a different Account name the name shown in the top left of the screen will change also.

Now go to Settings on the menu on the right hand side of your screen. (If using a Phone or Tablet click on the 3 black lines in the top left to open your menu options up)

To change any of these Settings click on Edit.

Please note that under Allergies only the 14 legally required allergens are listed, if you need to be more specific please speak to your school.

You can change these allergens and Dietary Preferences at any time if needed.