School Dinners

From 4th November, our school meal provider will be The Pantry.

You can visit their website here: https://www.thepantrycatering.co.uk/

 

Our school meal provider is Edwards and Ward. 

You can visit their website here: www.edwardsandward.co.uk

To ensure that our school meal menus achieve nutritional balance the school meal provider is advised by Dr Juliet Gray, a registered public health nutritionist and well-respected expert in the field of nutrition and dietetics. Our school lunches have total compliance with the Government's nutrient-based standards for maintained primary, secondary and special schools. Our aim is to be responsible rather than faddy and to develop menus that take account of healthy eating guidelines - encouraging children to consume the Government-recommended five portions of fruit and vegetables each day.

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Packed Lunches

In order to ensure that packed lunches are healthy we ask parents to follow the following guidelines: For a balanced packed lunch, your child should be eating a selection of foods from each of these healthier food and drink groups.  We will be monitoring the packed lunches to ensure that children have:

• at least one portion of fruit and one portion of vegetables every day.
• meat, fish (including oily fish such as salmon, twice a week maximum) or another source of non-dairy protein (e.g. lentils, kidney beans, chickpeas, hummus, falafel) every day.
• a starchy food such as any type of bread, pasta, rice, couscous, noodles, potatoes or other type of cereal
• dairy food such as milk, cheese, yoghurt, Fromage Frais or custard. Water, unsweetened pure fruit juice or milk.

These foods will not be allowed in packed lunches because they are especially high in fat, sugar or salt:

SAVOURY	SWEET	DRINKS
Crisps Sausage roll Pasty Scotch eggs Pork pie Snack packs Stringy cheese	Biscuits Sweets Processed fruit bars e.g. wind-ups Chocolate bars, biscuits or products Cakes or cake bars Cereal bars Sweet muffins Croissants or pastries Jam or Bakewell tarts Flapjacks Chocolate spread sandwich Jam sandwich	Flavoured water Diluted soft drinks (fruit squash, cordial e.g. blackcurrant drink) Branded drinks aimed at children e.g. Fruit Shoot, Capri-Sun Fizzy drinks
		Please note in the Summer Term: No drinks will be allowed in packed lunches, children will be provided with drinking water on their tables.

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