Reid Street – a cashless school.
The school has an online payment system for school meals and school trips. All parents are encouraged to contact the school office to arrange to open an online account for the cashless payment of money to the school.
Please click here to access our cashless payment system.
School Meals
We encourage everyone to consider trying our school meals. We are proud of our cooked meals which are of high quality and good value. They are prepared every day in our own school kitchen fitted out to modern specification.
Parents must either send in their child with a packed lunch or must purchase a school meal. The School Meals Service is a separate business operating on the school premises. The office staff place an order for the exact number of meals that they have received payment for at the start of each day. Payment for school meals must be made before the office staff order a meal from the kitchen for a child. Meals cannot be ordered and then paid for later. The school meal providers, Chartwells, have increased the cost of a school meal to £3.05 per day (£15.25 a week) from the 1st September 2026. Children who remain on our premises for lunch, whether a packed lunch brought in from home or one provided by our school, are not allowed to leave the premises over the lunch period. Please note that if you would like to change your child’s lunch arrangements we require 1 weeks written notice emailing to admin@reidstreet.darlington.sch.uk.
Please note that water is supplied for all children regardless of whether they receive a meal prepared in the kitchen or bring in a packed lunch from home. It is therefore not necessary to send in a separate cold drink with a packed lunch. Any cold drinks brought in must not be fizzy drinks and must not be in glass containers.
Meals cooked in the kitchen are carefully monitored for temperature, by the kitchen staff, to ensure that they are not too hot on being served. We cannot monitor the temperature of hot foods or drinks brought into school in thermos flasks and this could lead to a child being scalded from the contents of an over-turned flask. For the safety of all 410 children, who use our busy dining hall each day, hot food or drinks must not be sent in to school with a child’s packed lunch.
North Eats, who are the provider of the school meal menu choice, request that if your child has any allergies to some foods, a medical diet form must be completed. Please speak with the school office for more information and the necessary paperwork to be completed.
Please click here to see the current menu choices.
Free school meals & Pupil Premium.
If you think you may be eligible to claim Free School Meals and Pupil Premium you are required to carry our a check on a service called London Grid for Learning (LGfL), please follow this link https://fsm.lgfl.net/
Parents/ carers should log on to the website and enter a few details. The website will ask you to select Darlington as the local authority and Reid Street Primary School as the chosen school. Then you will need to enter your first name, surname, date of birth, National Insurance Number /NASS Number, email address, mobile number and relationship to the student. You will then need to enter information about your child, this information is then checked by the system via the Department for Education which accesses government records including the Department for Work and Pensions, the Home Office and HMRC to provide a result.
If you have any queries please call the school office to discuss this further.
