School Lunches
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We believe lunchtimes are an excellent opportunity for children to socialise with their peers and staff over a wholesome meal. All children have a range of hot and cold food provided daily by the school kitchen team. Our school lunches are provided by The Pantry catering company. They provide well balanced meals in line with nutritional guidance from the Department of Education (DfE).
To find out more please visit The Pantry official site.
We are a nut free school.
All our meals are nut free. Our kitchen provides halal food too.
In Hammersmith & Fulham, we recognise that a healthy diet is important. Our school lunch service provides nutritious and affordable meals. A few of the benefits:
- Meals comply with national nutritional standards
- Varied and interesting menus
- Special dietary requirements catered for
- Freshly cooked wholesome food
- Vegetarian options
Our school meals are excellent value for money - a two course meal, including a choice of bread and salad, costs only £2.31 a day for pupils in Nursery.
Ordering school meals via The Pantry's online ordering system
The Pantry operate an online ordering system. All parents will be sent an activation code and log in to order meals on a daily, weekly, monthly or termly basis.
If you have not received your activation code, please contact The Pantry using the details below.
Customer Service Team:
office@thepantrycatering.co.uk or call 020 8813 7040 Monday to Friday 7:00am to 4:30pm.
Free school meals, school clothing grants and healthy meal allowance
Free school meals are available for pupils in Reception, Year 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.
Free school meals and school clothing grants are available to families who receive certain benefits, this entitles students to a free school lunch and money to contribute towards school uniforms.
Schools also receive additional funding from the central government based on the number of students registered for free school meals (£1,320 per student for primary schools and £900per student for secondary schools). This money funds valuable support like extra tuition, additional teaching staff or after school activities. We encourage all families who think they may be eligible to apply for these benefits.
Eligibility
Families may be eligible for free school meals and clothing grants if they receive the following benefits:
- Universal Credit with an annual net earned income of no more than £7,400
- income support
- income based jobseeker’s allowance
- income related employment and support allowance
- support under Part 6 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
- the guarantee element of pension credit
- working tax credit run-on (paid for the four weeks after you stop qualifying for working tax credit)
- child tax credit (with no working tax credit) with an annual income of no more than £16,190
Please CLICK HERE to Apply
Healthy balanced meals
We provide healthy balanced meals because they:
- Improve young people's concentration and performance in school
- Promote health, growth and development
- Increase resistance to illness
- Introduce good habits for later life
- Include freshly prepared food
- Have food which is sourced from quality suppliers and is prepared on the day of serving in hygienic surroundings by fully trained staff
- The last visit from The Food Standards Agency awarded the kitchen team 5 stars.
Value for money
Our meals offer excellent value for money. We comply with the government's primary nutritional guidelines.
Menu planning
When planning menus and recipes, we use a range of foods to encourage healthy eating:
- Fibre and starchy foods like bread, pasta, rice and cereals
- Fruit and vegetables, providing vitamins, minerals and fibre
- Protein through fish, meat, beans and pulses
- Calcium for bone development in milk and dairy products
- Semi-skimmed milk to reduce the intake of saturated fats
Getting the balance right
The best model for learning about healthy eating is The Eatwell plate model. It makes healthy eating easier to understand by showing the types and proportions of foods which make up nutritious and well balanced diet. Using this as a guide can help children learn that to meet our nutritional needs we need to select a variety of foods from all of the five food groups.
