Healthy School Meals
Your child may stay for school dinners, bring a packed lunch, or return home at lunchtime.
School Meals:
School Meals are provided by “Chartwells”, cooked on the premises and served in the school hall. Meals are healthy, nutritious and great value for money.
We are thrilled to announce that Hambrough Primary School's KITCHEN was awarded 5 STARS by Ealing Councils' Environmental Health Department in June 2024. We pride ourself with maintaining high standards in hygiene and food preparation and are delighted to receive the award.
The start of the academic year 2023-2024 saw the introduction of the Mayor of London's Universal Free School Meals programme that was rolled out to ALL primary aged children in London. The scheme continued into academic year 2024-2025. Prior to this the price of a school meal is £2.10. ( HOWEVER, AS ALL PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN ARE ENTITLED TO A FREE SCHOOL MEAL DURING ACADEMIC YEARS 2023/2024 AND 2024/2025, THIS PRICE IS FOR NURSERY CHILDREN ONLY THAT ARE ATTENDING FULL-TIME NURSERY WHO ARE NOT ENTITLED TO A FREE MEAL). We have now begun the cashless payment facility through a company named “School Money” (app (edsp.co/ sm login) – which operates through Teachers2Parents, which in turn is used by the school for sending text and email messages.
The new Schoolmoney facility allows parents and the catering company to experience a more streamlined, cost-effective and efficient payment collection system in a secure and safe environment.
The system works well only if all records held on our database are correct. See intructions below for a step by step guide to making payments online.
IT IS CRUCIAL WE HAVE CORRECT MOBILE NUMBERS AND EMAIL ADDRESSES.
Free School Meals
If you are receiving benefits/working tax credit or jobseekers allowance you may be entitled to claim Free School Meals. Regardless of whether your child is in KS1 or KS2 (as all children receive a free meal anyway) it is important for us to know which families are really entitled to Free School Meals due to need, based on their family financial circumstances, as this will mean that the school will receive valuable funds – which will be used in teaching and learning. Furthermore, YOU may be eligible to a reduced contribution towards school trips, journeys and curriculum activities.
Please ask for an application form for applying for Free School Meals from the school office. Completed forms will need to be returned to the school office. The school office can help you with ‘Free Meal Applications.’
Packed Lunches
Food brought to school, as a packed lunch should be healthy. The container should be marked with your child's name and class. Please give children, pure fruit juice, milk shakes or water drinks with their packed lunch. No glass bottles please coloured OR fizzy drinks. Crisps, chocolates and sweets are not allowed! Packed Lunches are checked regularly to ensure they contain healthy meals.
If your child brings a packed lunch please give him/her the food he/she likes to eat. Parantha, Alloo Puri, rice etc are all acceptable. Please do not give drinks in a glass bottle. We encourage children to become health conscious and eat healthy food. Give your child water/milk/lassie or pure fruit juices. Colas and bright coloured drinks are not allowed. Crisps, Sweets and chocolates are not allowed although children may bring in biscuits.
Packed Lunch boxes will need to be sent with your child in the morning – WE WILL NOT ACCEPT LATE PACKED LUNCH BOXES! If on any occasion you do forget, your child will be provided with a healthy school meal for which you will be charged.
If your child returns home at lunchtime, they must be collected by an adult at 12.00 p.m. Children who go home to dinner should return to school by 1.00 p.m.
The school’s “Healthy” Food & Packed lunch Policy" can be accessed from the Non-Statutory Policies page
Click here for a step by step guide to making payments online
Guide to using the schoolmoneyapp to make payments & book school meals - see the link below for a video tutorial
CLICK HERE OR ON THE LINK BELOW FOR A VIDEO TUTORIAL ON USING THE SCHOOL MONEY APP TO BOOK/PAY FOR SCHOOL LUNCHES /PAY OR BOOK ON CLUBS
