Healthy Lunch Policy

Aim:

The aim of this policy is to ensure children eat a healthy, well-balanced lunch, thus promoting a healthy lifestyle and lifelong healthy eating habits. By encouraging healthy eating patterns we educate children for later life.

Healthy Lunch Options:

We encourage children to choose from the following foods regularly

Breads and alternatives

Bread or rolls, preferably wholemeal

 Rice – wholegrain

Pasta – wholegrain

Potato salad

Wholemeal scones

Pitta breads

Savouries

Lean meat

Chicken/Turkey

Tinned Fish e.g. tuna sardines

Cheese

Quiche

Fruit and Veg

Apples, bananas, peach, mandarins, Orange, Fruit salad, dried fruit

Plum, Pineapple cubes, grapes, cucumber, sweetcorn, tomato, coleslaw

Drinks

Water

Fruit juices

Squashes i.e. low sugar

Yoghurt

Milk

Treat Foods

We recommend foods such as:

  • Fresh fruit
  • Raisins
  • Yogurt or Yogurt drinks
  • Wholegrain/ Digestive biscuits (Plain biscuits only)

Roles and Responsibilities:

Role of Parents:

  • Provide a healthy well-balanced lunch for children
  • Encourage healthy eating
  • Inform the school of any child’s special dietary needs
  • To implement school policy by not allowing their children to bring sweets, crisps, bars, fizzy drinks etc. to school. Lucozade of any kind is not allowed.

Role of Children:

  • To eat their lunch
  • To bring home any uneaten lunch
  • To help make their lunches and remind parents of the Healthy Lunch Policy
  • Not to bring sweets, crisps, bars, fizzy drinks etc. to school

Role of School:

  • To promote and encourage healthy eating.
  • If children bring sweets, crisps, bars, fizzy drinks etc to school they will not be allowed to eat them. If children have these foods and no other food they eat it for that day and a note is sent home asking the parents to provide an alternative. If the child has some other food to eat that day, then the teacher holds the “forbidden” food and returns it to the child at going home time.

Implementation:

This policy is strictly implemented. As part of the Social Personal and Health Education Programme children are taught about healthy eating in September each year and a copy of The Healthy Food Pyramid is on display in every classroom and will be referred to regularly.

Teachers will continue to give children a sweet treat on occasions in recognition of work done, improvements in work or behaviour and in an effort to promote positive behaviour. Sweet treats used prudently by teachers will not interfere with the health of the children.