School Meals/Snacks

School Meals/Snacks

Packed Lunches

A packed lunch may be brought to school in a sturdy container marked with your child’s name and class. Drinks must be provided in a carton with a straw (no cans or bottles please). As a healthy school, we encourage parents to provide a healthy packed lunch therefore no sweets, Nutella or chocolate bars please. If you are providing grapes, please ensure they are cut in half (lengthways) to avoid choking.

St Joseph’s School is an egg free and nut free school. We have several children and adults with severe food allergies in school. In order to ensure their safety in school, please DO NOT include egg products or anything that contains nuts of any description in your child’s packed lunch.

Children are encouraged to use good table manners under the supervision of our team of midday supervisors.

School Milk and Fruit / Playtime Snacks

Foundation Stage and KS1 – Free fruit is provided daily as part of the National Fruit Scheme.

Under Fives are entitled to free school milk.

KS1 and KS2: Milk can be ordered for a small charge or you can provide a small carton of drink, with a straw, if you wish. Please contact Cool Milk http://www.coolmilk.com/

Alternatively, children may bring in a piece of fruit as a snack each day.   Children are allowed to have a water bottle clearly labelled with their name for use in class.

School Lunch

UPDATE: From 17th June 2024 Havering Catering Services have moved from sQuid to ParentPay for preordering school lunches.  You will be provided with new unique registration details which will be emailed shortly.

ParentPay: How to Activate Your Account

ParentPay: How To Add A Child To Your Account

ParentPay: How to Preorder School Lunches

Infant Children – All infant children (Reception, Years  1 and 2) are entitled to receive Universal Free School Meals provided by Havering Catering Services.

Junior Children – Junior children are entitled to free school meals.  This is being funded by the Mayor’s office.

All Children – Parents are required to preorder their child’s menu choice (red, blue, green or packed lunch) from the ParentPay app at home. You need to to preorder for the coming week but you can preorder for the term.   The system directly sends the recorded lunch choices to the school kitchen staff. If you child has a known food allergen , it will be highlighted by the system. It is recommended that parents discuss the menu choices available each day with younger children.  Should you child be absent then a member of the office staff will note this on the ParentPay system in school on the day.

All meals consist of one item from each food group and aims to give your child a good balance of nutrients. Drinking water is freely available for all children at lunchtime. Occasionally, the Catering Service will hold a special menu. A link to the current menu is provided below.

We are very proud that we are a ‘Healthy Eating School’ and our cook and her team provide a delicious selection of meals daily from the new Healthy Options Menu.

You may be entitled to free school meals.  Click the link for further advice from Havering: Free School Meal Enquiry

Current Dinner Menu

Current menu – from 4th November 2024

Vistual 3 Course Menu from  (Check the dates at the top of each week to see which menu to choose from).

Gluten Free, Dairy Free, Gluten & Dairy Free AW24 Menus

For full information including updates, please follow the Havering Catering website and kafoodle link provided below:

https://wba.kafoodle.com/15672

Havering Catering Services ‘Veggie Run App’