Healthy Lunches

Our aim is simple: to provide every child with tasty, nutritious meals that they enjoy, while giving them the energy and focus they need for
learning throughout the afternoon.

Our school caterer is a wonderful, family-run company that specialises in education catering, focusing
on providing freshly prepared, healthy meals with plenty of delicious choices.

Cost of a meal
The cost of a school meal for Years 3 to 6 will be £2.80 (£14.00 per week).

Our food offering
A whole range of food options are available which can include:

•  Hot meals
• Jacket potato and fillings
• Sandwich, roll or baguette
• Pasta Bar
• Fresh salad selection
• Traditional desserts, fruit and yoghurt

Menus may occasionally change due to unforeseen circumstances. For the latest updates please refer to the SchoolGrid portal and check your emails for any pre-order cancellation notifications.

How to order and pay for your child’s school meals
You can manage your child’s school meals using Dolce’s parent portal, called SchoolGrid. This easy- to-use system allows you to:

• pre-order meals
• pay securely by card
• view menus
• directly input vital allergen information

Pre-ordering Meals
To reduce waste and help to ensure your child receives their preferred choice, please pre-order meals before 8:55am on the day. You can also pre-order for the entire term in advance.

Online Card Payments
A card payment can be made online through your SchoolGrid account by selecting ‘Pay by card’

Telephone Card Payment
Dolce’s Customer Care team is available 8.00am to 5.00pm Monday to Friday to take a card
payment on 01942 707709. The minimum payment amount they can accept over the phone is £10.

Allergies or Dietary Requirements

It is essential that you record your child’s allergies on your SchoolGrid portal account so Dolce can provide a safe meal.
If your child has an allergy outside the standard 14 allergens, or any additional dietary needs (such as vegan or halal), please contact Dolce Customer Care and they will assist you in updating this information for your child’s account. 
If your child has a special diet or care plan, please speak to the school. Dolce’s Area Manager will then work closely with yourself and the school to ensure your child’s needs are safely met.

Contact Details

If you have any questions, comments or suggestions regarding school meals, allergens, payments etc, please do not hesitate to contact the friendly Dolce Customer Care team:

• Availability - Monday to Friday 8am to 5pm
• Phone - 01942 707709
• Email - customercare@dolce.co.uk
• If you experience any technical issues with access to SchoolGrid, please contact SchoolGrid technical support on 01506 300310 or by email to support@schoolgrid.co.uk

All children are encouraged to bring a water bottle to school throughout the year, which they can keep on their desk. There are water fountains in every classroom as well as in each playground.

The School Council have been working hard on helping children and their families to have healthier packed lunches. Through Class and School Councils the children have decided what a healthy lunch box looks like. The leaflet ‘Healthier Packed Lunches', which has been produced by the School Council, can be downloaded from this page, along with ‘Healthier Lunches for Children' which offers advice and useful tips to parents and carers and ‘Our Lunchtime Environment', an agreement of lunchtime expectations devised by the pupils.

Saxon School Council

We in the School Council have been working very hard to make our lunchtimes better. We have worked with all the children during Class Council time to find out what everyone thinks and want to make lunchtimes a really healthy and fun part of our day at school. In the playground we have made lots of changes and we now have zoned areas with lots of different equipment so that everyone can play what they want to play.

We also started to think about what happens in the lunch hall and carried out a survey to find out how healthy our lunchboxes are. We have found out that a lot of our lunchboxes are not very healthy and we wanted to help everyone to make a healthier choice. We worked with the teachers and decided to make some changes to help this to happen. These are the rules we have agreed between ourselves and Miss Morris.

If we have a packed lunch we need to make sure it has:

• A carbohydrate of some kind. For example, sandwich, pitta bread, wrap, crackers
• A protein of some kind in the sandwich/pitta bread/wrap etc. For example, cheese, turkey, ham, tuna, chicken, beans
• At least one piece of fruit or vegetable

Healthy Snacks

All children are welcome to bring a healthy snack to school to eat during their break time. These should be in as little packaging as possible because we're also keen to reduce our use of plastics (e.g. no bear yoyos or fruit winders).

These snacks are limited to:

If children come into school with something that is not on the list, it will be sent back home. No cutlery should be brought in. A reminder that only Reception and Key Stage 1 children are provided daily fruit or vegetables as part of the Government scheme.

Other rules we have made are:

• Only one small sweet treat (not sweets or chocolates) can be in the lunch box. For example, a cereal/muesli bar or a small chocolate biscuit bar (kitkat or penguin) or a small cake
• We will not have crisps on Wednesdays
• We will continue not to have fizzy drinks at all. All drinks in our lunchbox need to be low-sugar.
• We will only have sweet fillings like jam in our sandwiches/pitta bread/wrap etc on Fridays
• We will eat our puddings and sweet things last

We knew that some of these changes might have felt a bit strange to start off with and so we asked all the grown-ups in school and at home to help us all make healthier choices with our food. This will help us with our learning as well as helping us to grow into healthy adults!

Message from Saxon School Council