Academy Meals
If your child is attending school full-time they will be staying for lunch-time. Please ensure you make arrangements for their lunches.
At Lime Academy Hornbeam, we believe that lunch time in school is both a time to develop pupils’ social skills, whilst also providing pupils with nutritional, healthy meals in a caring environment.
Please find below some useful FAQs regarding lunchtime at Lime Academy Hornbeam.
We would like to remind parents that packed lunches MUST not include:
• nuts – including peanut butter and chocolate nut spread – because of the life threatening risk to any other child who may have a severe allergy
• confectionery such as chocolate bars and sweets (fruit strings are considered to be sweets). Cakes and biscuits are allowed but encourage your child to eat these only as part of a balanced meal
• drinks other than water – fresh water is available at all times so you do not need to include this
• snacks such as crisps or cheddars. Instead, include seeds, vegetables and fruit (with no added salt, sugar or fat). Breadsticks served with fruit, vegetables or dairy food are also a good choice
Packed lunches should include:
• at least one portion of fruit and one portion of vegetables every day
• meat, fish or other source of non-dairy protein (e.g. lentils, kidney beans and chickpeas) every day
• oily fish, such as salmon, at least once every three weeks
• a starchy food such as any type of bread, pasta, rice, couscous, noodles, potatoes or other type of cereals every day
• dairy food such as milk, cheese, yoghurt or custard everyday