Westonzoyland Primary School ‘Embrace Opportunities, Choose Kindness, Value Everyone’
School Meals, Lunchbox and Snack Policy
Hot meals are available and can be ordered through the School Office. The meals are served daily in the School Hall.
Children may also bring a packed lunch. Please see below for information on our lunchbox and snack policies.
Free hot meals or packed lunches are available for all EYFS and KS1 children and in KS2 to those who are entitled to Free School Meals. Information and an application form can be collected from the School Office. To all other children, school meals are available at a cost of £2.65 per day.
Children are also allowed to bring a healthy snack to be consumed during morning break. In EYFS and Key Stage One, children are provided with a free piece of fruit through a Government funded scheme.
During the school day, we only allow children to drink water in school although we do permit sugar free squash or fruit juice at lunchtimes. This is to promote healthy habits that will benefit children now and through their adult lives. We have a chilled water filter in school, so the water here is the best that can be found. We ask all parents to support the school in enforcing this.
Menu
Our Lunch Box Policy
Our Student Council group drew up a lunchbox policy based upon the Eatwell Plate. At Westonzoyland, we do not believe that any food is bad - they should just be enjoyed in different amounts. We ask that all parents, who pack a lunch for their child, try to stick to the following proportions. In this way, we hope that every child gets a balanced diet that will positively impact on their health and wellbeing.
Where staff see children regularly having lunchboxes that do not represent our policy, they will send home polite reminders to parents. Making better food choices was an action from our Wellbeing Survey where our children talked about the link between how they are feeling and what they are eating.
In addition to the information above, as of 1st September 2024, Westonzoyland Primary School is a nut free school. We do have children within our community that have a severe allergy to nuts and the consequences of an allergic reaction could be potentially fatal. With this in mind, we request that your children's lunchboxes do not contain nuts or any item that when produced, may been contaminated with nuts.
Many thanks for your support with this.
Our Food Policies
Our Breaktime Snack Policy:
We encourage all children to bring in a snack for breaktime, as it can seem like a long time until lunch for many children.
Our Student Council group set out ideas about what makes a good snack. They decided that they would rather have their treat foods at lunchtime, and so we listed food that would give children lots of energy and nutrition, and were not likely to contain any traces of nuts.
We ask that all parents ensure that their child has a snack that follows this list. If staff see a child with a snack that does not follow this policy, they will be asked to change it for something else. If they do not have any other options with them, then some fruit will be provided.
