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The Government recognise that good food at school is particularly valuable for the youngest of our children. All children attending school in their first three years of schooling will be entitled to free school meals. By receiving our infant school meals you can save up to £400 a year and ensure your child is eating a healthy, balanced meal every day.

There are very high nutritional standards for school meals and they consistently offer children a third of their nutritional requirements every day which is essential to their growth and development. Having a meal at school has been proven to help children settle to learning quicker, improve their concentration and help with their energy levels to get them through an active school day.

Our school meals are provided by Cambridge-based specialist schools caterer; The Lunchtime Company www.lunchtime.co.uk. They provide delicious, nutritious and healthy meals every day.

Together we offer children a wonderful choice of hot food, fresh vegetables, freshly baked bread, fresh fruit, yogurt, jacket potatoes… there really is something for everyone.

All meals are cooked from fresh ingredients every day, sourced locally (where possible within a 60 mile radius of the school), and prepared on-site.

Our menus are available below – this gives you an opportunity to discuss your child’s meal preferences.

Winter Menu - Week 1

Winter menu - Week 2

Winter menu - Week 3

Lunchtime Company Primary School Parent Brochure

Food Allergen information

So why choose a school lunch?

Children having a school lunch are:

Encouraged to eat a wider variety of foods
More likely to eat fruit and vegetables every day
Less likely to drink sweet drinks and have water instead
Served balanced meals that are more likely to reach the guideline amounts of vitamins and minerals

Children having a packed lunch should be able to deal with any packaging independently. Containers should be clearly named. Please do not send fizzy drinks, cans or glass bottles, a straw or plastic cup is better. Ensure that the contents in your child’s packed lunch are as healthy as possible – we are a healthy school.

Why choose a school meal?

School meals are £2.30 per day. Payment for meals for children in Years 3 to 6 can be made by cash or using your MCAS account

If paying by cash, please place payment in a sealed envelope marked ‘School Dinners’ and write the name of your child and their class clearly on the outside.

Apply here for Free School Meals

Healthy Eating

We are an accredited National Healthy School and are committed to promoting and monitoring healthy food at break and lunch times. You may like your child to have a mid-morning snack. We welcome fruit and vegetables, and would ask you not to send your child with chocolate, crisps or sweets of any kind.

Children in Puffin, Swift and Wren classes are provided with fruit every day as part of the National Fruit Scheme.

Water

Research shows that our brains need water to stay active and alert. All children are encouraged to bring water into school daily, in a spillproof plastic bottle that they can take home at night to rinse and refill.