Homework

All students at Carr Hill High School are expected to complete homework in national curriculum subjects (with possible exception of PE & PSHE). All homework is set, along with the deadline for completion, on Synergy.

 

Homework Club

Homework Club is open to all students in the Hub after school Monday - Thursday until 4.30pm, Friday until 4pm. Any problems, please contact Mrs Hogarth or the Library Staff.

 

Catering

The dining room will be open for a food service for all years at break time. Years 7 and 8 will have lunch at 12.35 until 13.10 (12.40 - 13.15 on a Monday) and Years 9 -11 will have lunch at 13.35 until 14.10.

The school kitchens and dining rooms are first-rate, modern facilities for students and staff. The dining rooms serve nutritious foods, cooked in healthy ways. The school caterers have worked extremely hard to ensure that the school meets the government’s food and nutrition based standards for school lunches. Click here for further information. Some families will qualify for free school meals - please see below for more information.

At lunchtime students and staff are offered the option of a meal deal including a main course with dessert and drink along with a variety of smaller items such as sandwiches, paninis, soups, pasta pots, jacket potatoes and wraps.

The canteen serves a three week rotational menu which changes twice a year, serving a variety of different meals every day, which always includes a vegetarian option.

Carr Hill High School operates a cashless system and the school has implemented a way to view exactly what your child has been eating and what their current balance is on their cafeteria account. Online payments for catering and school trips is called SCOPAY www.scopay.com and there is also an App available for download onto mobile devices. If you do not have a UPN for your child/children contact the Finance Team via bursar@carrhill.lancs.sch.uk or 01772 689002.

 

Spring / Summer Menu 2024

 

Packed Lunches

Students may bring a packed lunch to school. Packed lunches, sweets and chocolate bars should not be eaten on the school corridors or in the school grounds – only water and fruit juices may be consumed outside the designated packed lunch areas. This ensures students sit down to eat and minimises litter around the site.

All pupils are encouraged to drink unflavoured still water to re-hydrate themselves. No fizzy drinks are allowed and will be confiscated (Radnor Fizz is sold in the Canteen and this can be consumed at break/lunchtime). It is not the school’s policy to dictate to parents what the content of packed lunches should be but the importance of eating sensibly and healthily should not be understated. Packed lunches can be eaten in the Dining Rooms during Year 7 and Year 8 lunchtime, and three locations during Year 9 - Year 11 lunchtime - the picnic area between the Hall and the Dining Hall, the Hall and the Benches area.

 

Free School Meals

Would you like to save £342 a year?

Some families qualify for free school meals – a saving of up to £11 per week.

If you are in receipt of benefits such as income support, jobseekers’ allowance, child tax credit or state pension credit your child may be entitled to a free school meal.

Further details are available by calling 01524 581 207.  In one phone call you can check if you are eligible, apply and be awarded free meals without having to complete any application forms.

In exceptional circumstances, if you wish your child to go home for lunch please complete the appropriate request form and return it to school. Please note that if you give permission for your child to go home for lunch, responsibility for your child’s safety, welfare and behaviour passes to you until your child returns to school. The lunchtime period is only 40 minutes long so unless your child lives very close to the school it is usually impractical for them to go home during this period. No students in Year 7 to 11 will gain permission to go to any external food outlet for their lunch. Students who do not go home for lunch must stay on the school premises throughout lunchtime unless they have the permission of the Headteacher.

 

The School Nurse

The school nurse holds a ‘Drop In’ at Carr Hill High School (dates will be advertised in advance). The confidential ‘Drop In’ service is open to all students, no appointments are necessary. All students can call to see the school nurse to discuss any concerns/ issues/ worries that they may have about any aspect of their health: physical, mental, emotional and sexual health.

 

Role of School Nurse

  1. To assess, protect and promote the health and well-being of school age children and young people.
  2. To offer advice, care and treatment to individuals and groups of children and young people and the adults who care for them (Every Child Matters, DH, 2006)
  3. To empower young people to take responsibility for their health care choices

 

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