Family Lunch
Our Approach
Lunchtime is a key part of our school day. We eat lunch ‘family dining’ style. We all sit down as a class and eat together; adults support children at this time and can also eat the school lunch with the children to encourage and model good conversations. We eat with each other food and help tidy away together. We value this time and see it as a key learning opportunity.
We aim to be a very healthy school and see eating as a way to reinforce our values and commitment to a high-quality education.
We provide very healthy hot meals and therefore discourage packed lunches.
Our Menus
Whilst our building renovation works take place, our hot food is being transported from a mother kitchen at another school, St Anne’s Primary in Wandsworth and therefore we have the same menu. Our school kitchen, alongside all the renovation works scheduled for the last round of building works, is expected to be completed by September 2024.
Click here for the Revised Autumn Menu – 2024-2025
Paying for Lunch
All children from Reception to Year 2 are entitled to school meals, free of charge.
Free School Meals Eligibility
Children from Reception to Year 2 are entitled to a Universal Free School Meal.
For the academic year 2023-24 meals for year 3 and above are also free. This is under the Mayor of London’s cost of living support. More information can be found here https://www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/what-mayor-does/priorities-london/free-school-meals
School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme
The School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme (SFVS) helps your child achieve 5 A Day.
Fruit and vegetables are a good source of the nutrients that children need and form part of a healthy, balanced diet.
It’s recommended that children – like adults – eat at least five portions of fruit and vegetables every day. But research shows that on average children in England eat only about three portions, with many eating fewer.
For handy tips on how to get more fruit and veg into your children’s diet, read 5 A Day and your family.
The SFVS and your child
If your child is aged four to six and attends a fully state-funded infant, primary in England, they are entitled to receive a free piece of fruit or vegetable each school day.
That provides one of their 5 a Day portions, and the scheme also helps to increase awareness of the importance of eating fruit and vegetables, encouraging healthy eating habits that can be carried into later life.
Teachers find that distributing the fruit in class groups helps to encourage a sharing, calm, social time. It also allows them to incorporate the scheme into teaching and learning.
SFVS and the school day
The fruit and vegetables are delivered to schools three times a week to ensure freshness. Depending on the season, there is a choice of:
- bananas
- apples
- pears
- carrots
- tomatoes
- easy-peel citrus fruits, such as satsumas
Some schools also offer strawberries when they are in season.
All the fruit and vegetables are washed before they are handed out, which is usually just before the mid-morning break, normally in individual class groups.
They are not handed out at lunchtime – this ensures that the fruit and vegetables supplied are not simply replacing the fruit and vegetables that might have been eaten at lunchtime anyway.
School Milk
