School Lunch

School meals

We are members of the Ealing Healthy Schools’ Project and encourage all children to eat a balanced diet.

Most children have a hot school meal, prepared from fresh ingredients daily by cooks from ISS, our school caterers, in the school kitchen. We encourage all children to have a hot school meal and daily meal options include:

• Meat or fish
• Vegetarian choice
• Freshly baked bread
• Salad bar
• Dessert and/or fresh fruit

Meals are planned around a three week menu cycle, meeting all government dietary requirements for schools. Children can take any meal for any number of days with no pre-booking or notice period. Mix and match hot school meals and packed lunches to suit your child’s food tastes.

Meals are served and eaten in the Main Hall. Children eat together with their class.

Allergies, food intolerance and medical conditions

If your child has a food allergy, intolerance or medical condition e.g. Coeliac disease please contact the school office, to complete a health care form and to arrange contact with a member of staff from ISS. You will be asked to complete a form.

• ISS Special Diet Referral Form 2021

Healthy packed lunch

Packed lunches should be based on the Eat Well plate model and should include the following every day:

• Fruit and Vegetables – at least one portion of fruit and one portion of vegetables or salad.
• Non-dairy source of protein – meat, fish, egg, beans or pulses such as lentils, kidney beans, chickpeas, hummus and falafel.
• A starchy food like bread, pasta, rice, couscous, noodles, potatoes or other type of cereals.
• Dairy foods such as milk, cheese, yoghurt, fromage frais
  Water.
• Oily fish, such as salmon, should be included at least once every three weeks.

To keep packed lunches in line with the food based standards for school meals, packed lunches should not include:

• High fat, high salt, high sugar snacks such as crisps, sweet popcorn, other high fat / salt packet savoury snacks such as crisps.
• Confectionery such as chocolate bars, chocolate-coated biscuits, sweets and chewing gum.
• Chocolate spread, honey, jam or marmalade as a sandwich filling.
• Fizzy / sugary drinks or fruit flavoured squash. This includes diet drinks and energy drinks which can contain high levels of caffeine and other additives and are not suitable for children.

One of the following may be included on Friday: Crisps, cakes and biscuits are allowed but children should be encouraged to eat these only as part of a balanced meal.

 

Universal free school meals

Children in Reception to Year 6 are entitled to universal free school meals via a government initiative.

Free School Meals

If parents are in receipt of Income Support, then your child/children may be entitled to a free school meal. Please collect an application form from the office if this is the case, even if your child has a packed lunch.

For more information on entitlement to free school meals click here »

Packed Lunches

Packed lunches should be in a named container and be healthy and nut free. Please do not send your child to school with sweets, a fizzy drink or any glass container.

Snacks & Milk

Children from Nursery through to Year 2 are provided with a piece of fruit at break time through the National Fruit Scheme. Children from Years 3 to 6 may bring fruit from home to eat at break time. Drinks from home need to be labelled to avoid confusion. Children may keep a bottle of water in class to sip during the day.

Nut Free School

Due to some pupils having serious allergies, we operate a strict nut-free policy throughout the whole school.