Packed Lunches

We know that keeping packed lunches healthy, affordable and interesting for children can be tricky.

Our advice is to aim for a balanced diet across a week. To help with this please keep ‘treat’ food such as crisps, chocolate and sugary drinks (including fruit juice) for home.

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 ask 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 only send fruit, and remind your child that snacks should not be shared (to limit potential exposure to allergens).