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Pay for school meals

Paying for school meals

 

The following schools have their catering service provided by North Tyneside Council. For all other schools contact the school direct.

First, Primary and Special schools

  • Amberley primary
  • Appletree Gardens first
  • Backworth Park primary
  • Beacon Hill school
  • Benton Dene primary
  • Benton Dene school
  • Burradon primary
  • Christchurch C of E primary
  • Collingwood primary
  • Coquet first
  • Cullercoats primary
  • Fordley primary
  • Forest Hall primary
  • Greenfields primary
  • Hazlewood primary
  • Ivy Road primary
  • Langley first
  • Marine Park first
  • Preston Grange primary
  • Redesdale primary
  • Richardson Dees primary
  • Rockcliffe first
  • Shiremoor primary
  • South Wellfield first
  • Southridge first
  • Wallsend Jubilee primary
  • Wallsend St Peters RC primary
  • Waterville primary
  • Western community primary
  • Whitehouse primary
  • Whitley Lodge first
  • Woodlawn

Middle schools

  • Marden Bridge middle
  • Wellfield Middle

Secondary / High Schools

  • Burnside college
  • Churchill community college
  • Longbenton college
  • Marden high
  • Norham high 
  • North Gosforth Academy
  • Whitley Bay high

 

First, Primary, Middle and Special schools

All children in Reception, Year 1 or Year 2 are eligible for Universal Infant Free School Meals.

Unless you are eligible for benefit-based free school meals you will need to pay for school lunches from the start of Year 3.

School meals are great value at only £2.40 a day.

School meals should be paid for:

  • online using ParentPay website
  • before they are taken
  • preferable a week in advance

Paying online means that you can do this at a time that's convenient for you. Pay for school meals online at www.parentpay.com

To set up a ParentPay account you require an activation username and password, which can be sent to you by email or letter.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION - PARENTPAY  is managed by North Tyneside Council Catering Services, not your child's school. 

Please ignore any advice on the ParentPay website, where it asks you to contact your school.

Please email your query to parentpay@northtyneside.gov.uk  Please ensure you include your child's name and school in your email. 

Secondary Schools

Catering Services operate an online cashless system, ParentPay, for the payment of school meals.  The system ensures all students are able to pay for school meals safely without the risks associated with handling cash and without the need to use biometric data.  Cash is no longer taken at school and in addition to ParentPay, contactless card payments can be made at the till by students. 

All bank debit cards accepted along with prepayment cards; Go Henry; Rooster Money; Capital One Money Teen; Pockit; Osper

All parents should set up a ParentPay account in order to monitor meals purchased by your child, as all students will be served a meal if they come to the counter, regardless if they have credit on their account and this will be recorded as a sale on their ParentPay account.  To set up a ParentPay account, you require an activation user name and password which can be sent by email or letter to you.  Students also require a QR code or pin number to pay for meals at the till and this can be requested by email.

Secondary Schools using ParentPay

Churchill Community College; John Spence Community High; Longbenton High; Marden High; Norham High and Whitley Bay High.

For all other secondary schools, please contact your school direct.

To request activation details or a QR code

Please email parentpay@northtyneside.gov.uk with your child's name and school.

Students who are entitled to free school meals will always remain anonymous as all students accounts are accessed the same way.  Your child's account is credited with £2.40 per day when they are in school.  Additional purchases or over spends on £2.40 need to be paid for by the student or parent, using your ParentPay account or making a card payment in school at time of purchase. 

TILL APP AT MARDEN / NORHAM / CHURCHILL / WHITLEY BAY - Once downloaded, Till App will allow you and your child to see your current balance, top up, view purchases and use QR code at the till.  Parents will be sent a unique registration code to activate Till App.

For more information visit www.tillapp.co.uk or email hello@tillapp.support

Managing your ParentPay Account - Automatic top-up payments with ParentPay

Auto top up assists parents and carers in ensuring their child's school meal balance is always in credit.  It does so by allowing you to set a minimum balance which, when breached automatically credits your child's meal balance by a fixed amount using a balance transfer payment.  In order to use auto top-up, you are required to set up the bank transfer facility on your ParentPay account.  As soon as this is authorised and completed by your bank, you will be able to use the auto top-up facility.

Here are some helpful video's to help you with ParentPay

Related documents

Contact us

For any queries about school meal payments please email your child's name and school to parentpay@northtyneside.gov.uk