School Meals

Packed Lunches
Children are encouraged to bring a healthy packed lunch in a named lunch box or bag. Whilst it is the parents’ choice as to what they put in their children’s lunch box, we do encourage a healthy mix and we do not allow children to eat sweets, full-sized chocolate bars or drink fizzy drinks as part of their lunch.

Getting ideas and inspiration for what to include in your child’s lunchbox can be a difficult task. Healthy eating is simply about getting a better balance and eating a wide variety of foods. All foods provide energy and nutrients and it is achieving the correct intake of those nutrients that is important for health. Variety is the key to a healthy diet, so try not to offer the same foods on consecutive days. By including a broad range of different foods, a much wider variety of nutrients will be eaten. The ‘healthier lunchbox checklist’ helps to explain what ‘a healthy mix’ means in terms of getting a good balanced meal in a lunchbox.

Healthier Lunchbox Checklist:
Have you included…?

• A good portion of starchy food: e.g. thick wholemeal bread, chapatti, pitta pocket, pasta or rice salad?

• Plenty of fruit and vegetables: e.g. an apple, a satsuma, handful of cherry tomatoes or carrot sticks, mini-can of fruit chunks or small box of raisins?

• A portion of milk or dairy food: e.g. individual cheese portion or pot of yogurt?

• A portion of lean meat, fish or alternative: e.g. ham, chicken, beef, tuna, egg, hummus or bean/lentil salad?

• A drink: e.g fruit juice, milk or water.

The following links contain some useful information on healthy packed lunches:

Healthier Lunchboxes

School Dinners
Our school lunches are provided by award-winning caterers HC3S.

At HC3S, our ethos is about tasty food to help your children flourish. And to do that it helps if they eat a healthy diet. By providing nutritious food, cooked fresh every day and which is responsibly sourced, we give your children a balanced diet with choices that aid concentration levels and give them energy to focus and to play.

We now also offer a delicious salad cart to all children who have ordered a school lunch. 

Want to know more about HC3S?

Click on this web link https://www.hants.gov.uk/educationandlearning/hc3s

From April 2023, school dinners will cost £3.00 per child per day for all children in KS2 and should be paid for in advance. Please log onto your child's SCOPAY account www.scopay.com/login.html to pay for school dinners and school trips. If you need information on how to access your account, please contact the school office.

School dinners remain free for children in Year R, Year 1 and Year 2.

If you are receive certain benefits you may be able to claim for FSM. To check your eligibility please go to https://www.hants.gov.uk/educationandlearning/freeschoolmeals/juniorsecondary

Jacket Potato

We also have a jacket potato menu with children able to order a jacket potato with either cheese, beans or tuna mayonnaise. 

Cool Milk

Every child under the age of five is entitled to free school milk. If your child is over the age of five they are entitled to subsidised milk. To register your child for free or subsidised milk, please go to www.coolmilk.com or pick up an application form from the school office.