Marchwood Junior School | Meals and Food in School

• Meals & Food in School

Menu Facts | Sandwiches | Snacks | Free Meals

School meals are currently available at a charge of £2.00 a day. Meals are cooked on the premises and are balanced, nourishing and attractively presented. Each day there are two options which encourage a thoughtful approach to food; one option is always a ‘non-meat’ option. A typical day’s menu might be as follows:-

Option 1

Option 2

Baked organic meatballs in tomato sauce with rice	Vegetarian lasagne
Carrots or salad	Broccoli and swede or salad
Apple crumble and custard or fresh fruit	Iced mandarin sponge or fresh fruit

Menu facts:

• Food freshly-prepared in our kitchens

• No Genetically Modified food

• Over 70 additives “not allowed” in our food – using a list provided by the Hyperactive Children’s Support Group

• No opportunity for children to make ‘unbalanced’ choices

• Nutritionally analysed menus

• Meals provide an average of one third of a child’s recommended daily requirements of 557 calories, no more than 21.7 grams of fat, not less than 11mg vitamin C, 60 micrograms of folate and 193mg calcium – as a daily average over the week’s menu.

• No more than a third of the recommended maximum daily 5 grams of salt for primary school children

• Vegetarian cheese and margarine throughout homemade recipes

• Special diets catered for: nut free, egg free, dairy free and wheat and gluten free

The school meal represents very good value for money. Should you wish to drop in at lunchtime and see for yourself how high the standard of catering is, please do.

NOTE: If there is a medical reason why your child should not eat particular foods, please let us know. We can arrange for you to speak to the School Cook if necessary.

Meals should be paid for WEEKLY on Monday morning. It is a great help if money can be sealed in an old envelope and clearly marked with your child’s name and class. The money is collected and banked on Monday.

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Sandwiches

If you prefer, your child may bring a packed lunch which will be eaten under supervision in the dining room. Drinks may be brought for lunchtime but please ensure that no glass containers or cans are used and that you supply a cup as drinking from a bottle at the table does not encourage good manners. A spoon should also be brought from home if needed for yoghurts etc.

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Snacks

Snacks may be brought for morning break but should be either fruit or vegetables. A Healthy Tuckshop, ‘The Snack Shack’, is organised at morning breaktime when children can buy fruit, milk and fruit juice. Each item costs 25 pence. Packeted snacks and sweets are not permitted at school.

We ask that children do not chop and change their lunch requirements during a half-term. For administration purposes, children should stay with their choice of school meals/packed lunch/home lunches for a half-term period, a change being made at the beginning of a new half-term following a parental request.

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Free Meals

If you are receiving Income Support from the D.S.S., or Child Tax Credit and your annual income does not exceed £14,495, all your children will be entitled to free meals at school.

Every child who has a right to a free meal should be able to have one. If you think that your children may be entitled to free school meals, please ask the School Office for an application form. Provision of free school meals is, of course, treated confidentially.

IMPORTANT- If you are receiving Income Support please inform us even if you do not want your child to have Free School Meals as we need to keep records of entitlement that are reported annually.