School Meals
Children may either have a school lunch or bring their own healthy packed lunch. Hot, nutritional school meals are cooked in our school kitchen. The School Meals service is provided by a professional catering company specialising in school meals. Lunchtime Supervisors care for the children during their lunchtime. There is a choice of main meals and puddings and water is provided. Children are not permitted to bring their own drinks to school for consumption with school meals.
School Dinners are £2.70. Dinners must be booked the day before they are required. If this should alter we will let you know as soon as possible. Dinner money can be paid weekly, monthly or half termly and must be paid via Parent Pay, our electronic payment system.
The school meals menus are nutritionally balanced based on the principles of:
- Reducing salt
- Reducing sugar
- Reducing fat
- Increasing fibre
Good manners and high standards of behaviour apply at lunchtimes as well as during the rest of the school day.
Free School Meals
All children in Reception and KS1 are entitled to Universal free school meals. Children are also entitled to free meals if their families are in receipt of Income Support or Job Seekers allowance. Please ask the school office for an application form. We would also be grateful if you could notify us of your eligibility even if you do not wish your child to have a free meal.
Sandwiches
We encourage the children when they first start school in Reception to have a hot school meal if possible. If your child does bring sandwiches to school we would strongly urge you to include a cooler block in the lunch box during the warmer months.
Other Drinks
We encourage all children to bring a drink of water to school with them to access throughout the day. There are sinks in all classrooms that allow children to refill their water bottles when needed. No cans or glass bottles are allowed in school.
Snacks
All children in Key Stage One receive a piece of fruit free of charge daily.
All children can bring a small snack to eat at break time but please only healthy snacks such as fruit, cheese, raw vegetables or breadsticks.
Nut free school
At Coton Green we are a nut free school, please do not send your child with any items for snack or packed lunches that contain nuts.
Lunch Menus – Relish
We use a pre-order service called Relish with the children. Parents choose their child’s lunch in advance with their child at home. If your child has a specific allergy, they will not be able to select foods that contain the item(s) that they are allergic to.
