School Dinners
School Dinners
Hot meals are freshly prepared and cooked on the premises by our catering team. The school has achieved the Advanced Healthy Schools Award and the ingredients used in our hot meals are fresh and where possible locally sourced. Essex School Meals Service are our consultants of choice and are committed to helping schools provide a first class catering service. All of our meals meet Government requirement guidelines.
We have a 3 week rolling menu which is circulated to parents, via Parentmail, in advance, so that children can select which days they would like to eat. Children in KS1 are entitled to a school meal free of charge under the Universal Free School Meal Scheme. Meals for children in KS2 are currently priced at £2.50 per day, payable in advance (please refer to our Dinner Money Policy for more information about payment). All pre-ordered dinners will be charged for unless your child is absent or you have given the school advanced notification that a meal no longer needs to be provided.
Some children prefer a packed lunch and provision is made for all children to eat their lunch in comfort. As part of our Healthy Schools initiative parents are requested not to include sweets and chocolate as part of the packed lunch.
We are a 'nut free' school so ask that no nut based spreads or foods are brought into school.
At break-time children are welcome to have a snack. The school provides Key Stage 1 children with a piece of fruit or vegetable free of charge and Key Stage 2 children may bring their own healthy snack (no crisps, chocolate, chocolate covered bars/biscuits or foods containing nut.