School Dinners and Packed Lunches

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CH & Co provide school dinners at Barham.

The cost of the meals for this academic year (2023-2024) is £2.67 per meal. All meals for Key Stage 1 continue to be funded by the government.

CH & Co has an online payment facility at https://www.chandcogroup.com/ which should be used in advance – daily, weekly, monthly or termly.

Please read the parent guide below for instructions on how to order meals.

Healthy Packed Lunches

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The School Council met to discuss how important it is to eat healthily and to give parents and children some ideas of what to put in lunch boxes. Please click on the links below for some healthy options for packed lunches.

School council have agreed that the following are not allowed in packed lunches:

• Sweets

• Fizzy drinks or any drinks in glass bottles

• Nuts or nut-based products including chocolate spread that contains nuts (because of children with nut allergies)

Biscuits, cakes and crisps should be a rare treat only. School council agreed that any chocolate biscuits must contain more biscuit than chocolate. To ensure parents know exactly what their children have eaten, children will bring home any uneaten food in their packed lunch box.

The following websites have some great ideas for nutritious, healthy food suitable for lunch boxes.

https://www.nhs.uk/change4life/recipes/healthier-lunchboxes

http://www.childrensfoodtrust.org.uk/childrens-food-trust/parents/your-childs-food-at-school/packed-lunches/what-to-put-in-a-lunchbox/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/collections/healthy_packed_lunch_ideas

https://www.kent.gov.uk/social-care-and-health/health/change4life/healthier-lunchboxes

http://www.foodafactoflife.org.uk/