School meals

Did you know by registering your child for free school meals the academy receives extra money from the government to support your child’s needs?

The government gives extra money to schools and academies to help children in receipt of free school meals achieve their potential. This funding is called Pupil Premium. The money will be used to ensure your child makes progress.

If you live in Bradford and receive any of the following benefits you can claim free school meals for your school-aged child:

• Income support
• Income based jobseeker’s allowance
• Income related employment and support allowance
• The guaranteed part of the state pension credit
• Child tax credit – as long as you have a yearly household income of less than £16,190 (as assessed by HM Revenue and Customs) and do not get working tax credit
• Working tax credit run-on (paid for 4 weeks after you stop qualifying for working tax credit)
• Universal credit that you applied for on, or after, 1 April 2018. As long as your income is less that £7,400 a year after tax, not including any benefits.

To find out if you are eligible please visit the Bradford Council website.

Once you have your eligible confirmed you will receive a code, please provide this to the academy so we can update our records.

Registration is completely confidential and it will not affect any other benefits.

If you would like any further information or support, please contact the academy on 01274 089 850 or via email.

Free breakfast through the National Schools Breakfast Programme

We are delighted to be working in partnership with the National Schools Breakfast Programme to provide a free breakfast for all students at the start of the school day. Through the programme any student at Dixons City Academy will be able to receive a free breakfast of bagels or cereal in the canteen every morning from 7.45am to 8.10am.

According to research from the British Nutritional Foundation:

• One in four secondary school children say they start the day without breakfast
• Over two thirds (65 percent) of children aged from 5 to 16 years are not drinking enough water

Our Purpose is Excellence at DCA and it is much easier to achieve your full potential when you have had enough food to eat. As the novelist Mark Frost said,

“The first prerequisite of elaborate mental exercise was a full stomach"

Details of our canteen menus can be found below.