Every child can now have a free school meal catered by our ISS team, thanks to funding from the London Mayor's office. This term in school we are focusing on healthy choices and reducing food waste.

• Fielding, School Dinners
• Mayor of London, Free School Meals

Children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 continue to have 'family style' service. Pupils in Years 3-6 will be served at the counter. All pupils with the exception of those who have a special diet requirement will be served the main meal from the menu (YR-2) or asked to select from the main choices.

Children who have a school meal will have the daily vegetable(s) added to their plate. They will be encouraged to try them by our fantastic front of house dining team.

Children will also be reminded to:

• only take one piece of bread
• add salad to their meal
• not throw food away

Class teachers are also encouraging pupils to try new things at lunch time. It would be great if you could talk to your child about this too.

Packed Lunches

Children who have a packed lunch should have a balanced diet across a week. For example having a bag of crisps on one day a week is fine, every day however, is not. To help we are asking that you don't include any crisps, chocolate or sugary snacks. Drinks with a high sugar content should be minimal, eg fruit juice.  Water is available for all. Take a look at the NHS healthier lunchbox website for more information:

• NHS, healthier lunchbox idea

Stuck for ideas or wondering about portion size? This guide from My Healthy Living is very useful. It also has some great ideas on what you could swap sugary snacks for:

• Healthy Living, Healthy Lunchboxes

Packed lunches should be nut and nut product free. 

We will be asking pupils who do not eat all of their packed lunch to take home what they have not eaten so that you can see what they have left.

Snacks

Children in Nursery, Reception, Year 1 and 2 are provided a fruit snack, no need to send one in. However if you do please check the following:

• break-time snacks should be fruit only 
• children should not share their snacks with each other to limit potential exposure to allergens.