School Meals
At lunch time, children can choose to have a school meal or to bring a packed lunch.
School meals are priced at £1.95. If you would like to see the ‘Healthy Start’ menu for this term, please click on the link below.
School meals are cooked on the premises. There is always a daily choice and our canteen team are happy to cater for vegetarians or children on special diets if at all possible. Menus are sent home at the beginning of each term and are displayed prominently at various points around the school. Meals should be booked and paid for at the beginning of each week. Parents may also pay termly if they wish. In the case of unexpected absences, credits are carried forward to the following week. Free school meals are available to families on certain benefits. Applications should be made through the school administrator, who will treat all enquiries in strict confidence.
An alternative to school meals is for children to bring packed lunches.
All the children eat in the hall on the same ‘sitting’ as their classmates. Each sitting lasts for a minimum of 20 minutes, although children can have as long as they need to complete their meal. Good table manners are expected, certificates are awarded at each sitting to the ‘table of the day’, tables are laid with attractive, brightly coloured tablecloths and mealtimes are promoted as a sociable activity. Children are encouraged, although never forced, to eat their meals.
The children are supervised in the hall and playground during the lunchtime by our Lunchtime Team of Mealtime Assistants and Play Leader. When the weather is suitable, some children may be taken down to the school field for part of lunchtime.
If you would prefer for your child to bring a packed lunch to school, please could we ask you to ensure that it comes in a named lunchbox. We ask child not to dispose of any uneaten food from their lunch box in school but to bring it home as we hope this helps parents to see what their children has or has not eaten from their box.
We have recently run some workshops for parents that were focused on healthy packed lunch choices that children will find interesting and enjoy. If you would like to find out more about healthy eating, you may wish to go to: www.eatwell.gov.uk. Also, if you go to: www.eatwell.gov.uk/agesandstages/children/lunchboxsect/ there are four weeks worth of menus for packed lunches which are crammed full of original ideas to keep those lunches interesting!