School Dinners
We offer good quality school dinners at Blackburn Primary School through our school meal provider Dolce.
Dolce are:
''a family run schools catering provider with a passion for delivering good healthy food with the best customer care.
They offer exciting new menus each term which are cooked fresh from raw ingredients and allow parents and pupils to pre-order from home, on the move or in the classroom.
They want you to know everything there is to know about our menus and provide an online ordering system so that you can choose at home with your child or on the way to school via your phone. You will have access to all our recipes, ingredients listings, nutritional breakdown, allergen and dietary information and even a diabetic feature showing the carb count of each dish at a glance.''
Meals are ordered through the School grid. Click on the link to log in or register. Further details can be found on the Dolce website by clicking on the image at the bottom of the page. The example menu can also be viewed below.
Packed lunches
In England, school food standards are a legal requirement for state‑funded schools, setting minimum nutritional rules for all food and drink. Blackburn primary school continues to adopt these requirements.
Staff will monitor snacks and packed lunches to ensure they are healthy and part of a balanced diet as taught through our PSHE, food technology and science curriculum.
To ensure consistency and promote healthy eating, packed lunches should not contain –
- Drinks – high in sugar of fizzy/Energy drinks
- Sweets/confectionary
- Fully coated chocolate bars (e.g., Double Decker/Mars Bar/Twix)
- Chewing Gum
- Nuts (Nut free environment)
Staff will communicate with parents and carers where necessary and where children consistently bring snacks and lunches that do not meet the required guidance.
