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    Our School Meals Offer

    We have superb state-of-the-art cooking and dining facilities. We also have an on-site allotment area where we grow our own healthy fruit, herbs and vegetables.

    • Look out for new and improved meals at Lowther
    • Our new school catering partners are Caterlink
    • Free School Meals and Eligibility Checker Details

    Healthy Break Time Snacks

    Children are allowed, and encouraged, to bring in a healthy break time snack. Our policy on what we allow is indicated below.

    Healthy Packed Lunches

    Here at Lowther Primary, we encourage children who opt for a packed lunch to eat a nutritious lunch in order to stay healthy. Our policy on what we allow is indicated below.

    1. Healthy Packed Lunches Policy LPS.pdf
      PDF File

    Please see further down this page for links to other interesting and useful food websites

    Healthy Lunchbox Suggestions

    Try to vary the type of bread such as wholemeal, granary or high fibre white bread. Also make sandwiches from different kinds of bread including bread rolls, French bread, bagels and pitta bread as well as sliced bread.

    Use a different sandwich filling each day - preferably including a fruit or vegetable.

     For example:

    • Cheese and cucumber
    • Mashed banana
    • Grated cheese and carrot
    • Tuna and sweetcorn
    • Chicken, lettuce and tomato
    • Cottage cheese, grated carrot and grated apple

     Some fruits to try:

    • Seedless grapes
    • Satsumas , tangerines or clementines (peeled and wrapped for younger children)
    • Small bananas
    • Cherries
    • Apples (can be cut into pieces for younger children and brushed with lemon juice to avoid browning)
    • Plums
    • Dried fruit such as apricots, dates or raisins

     Some vegetables to try:

    • Cherry tomatoes
    • Carrot sticks
    • Celery sticks
    • Cucumber chunks
    • Baby sweet corn
    • Grated carrot and raisin salad

    Fruit salad (apples, satsumas, pears, pineapple chunks and grapes work well together. Avoid bananas because they go brown)

    Canned fruit transferred to a pot (use fruit stored in natural fruit juices rather than syrup)

    Drinks: We only allow unflavoured water as a drink at school

     Sweet suggestions:

    • Scones
    • Malt loaf
    • A flapjack
    • Yoghurt
    • Teacakes

     Savoury suggestions:

    • Rice cakes
    • Fresh Organic Eggs from our Chickens
    • Bread sticks
    • A boiled egg
    • Cheese and crackers

    Keep it cool to keep it fresh:

    If you make sandwiches the night before, wrap them up and keep them in the fridge overnight.

    Keep drinking water in the freezer until the morning before it will be drunk. Then put it directly in the lunch box - it will have thawed by lunchtime and kept the rest of the food cool.

    Use a small, insulated Cool Bag.

    Here's a website with some additional ideas:
    www.food.gov.uk/safety-hygiene/keeping-food-safe-on-a-picnic

    Lowther School Meals

    1. LPS-Caterlink-Aut-Winter-Menu-2025-26.pdf
      PDF File

    Our new school meals providers are Caterlink and their website can be visited here:

    https://caterlinkltd.co.uk/school/richmond-kingston/

    Free School Meals and Eligibility Checker

    Eligibility Checker

    Did you know that the government gives additional funding to schools for those children entitled to free school meals?

    Schools use this money to obtain additional staff and resources that help improve the quality of education.

    Please do find out whether your child qualifies for free school meals, and hence whether their school would receive essential additional funding and please do fill in the details requested on the 'Free School Meals Eligibility Checker' website by clicking here. Your child's school will be informed by this service if your child is entitled to free school meals.

    Other interesting and inspiring Food, Cooking and Nutrition links

    School Dinners Exhibition at the Food Museum:

    Explore school dinners past, present and future at the Food Museum as memories and tastes of school food are brought to life in a fascinating new exhibition on view until 21/02/2027.