School Dinners

At Holy Trinity, we are fortunate to have a working kitchen on-site with a fantastic team of cooks.

Our meals are provided by The Pantry.  

Meals are provided free of charge to all pupils this academic year 2024-2025. 

If you would like to discuss free school meals or any concerns you may have about allergens, special diets or the food your child is eating, please contact the school office. 

Any enquiries regarding free meal entitlement should be addressed to the school office or Bexley Council's Free School Meals Team:

Email: Bexley.freeschoolmeals@secure.capita.co.uk

Telephone: 01322 356019

A message from The Pantry Catering Company

Dear Parents & Guardians,
We’re contacting you today to notify you of the launch of our POS system at your School, and
the benefits it will bring to the meal ordering process for your children moving forward!

Signing up is simple – The Pantry has sent an activation link to your e-mail (please check
your junk and spam folders if it hasn’t appeared in your Inbox). Just click the orange ‘Confirm
Account’ button in your email, and you’re ready to go!

Once your account is activated, you’ll be able to make meal selections for your child every
day, whether it be for the day, week, month, or even whole term ahead. Our cut-off time for
receiving orders on the day of service is 9am, so please ensure any orders are made prior to
this time. If your order isn’t placed in time, your child will still receive a default, allergen-safe
meal option - Jacket Potato with Baked Beans, and Fruit for Dessert.

You’ll also be able to select any allergens that you’d like your child to avoid exposure to, so
these can be blocked out from your menu choices, and our Nutrition team can also make
arrangements for Special Diet menus to be created in specific cases – so your children will
always be in the safe hands when they dine with The Pantry!
Kind Regards,

The Pantry

 

 

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Packed Lunches

Children are encouraged to bring a healthy packed lunch in a named lunch box or bag.  Whilst it is the parents/carers choice as to what they put in their children’s lunch box, we do encourage a healthy mix, and we do not allow children to eat sweets, full-sized chocolate bars or drink fizzy drinks as part of their lunch. 

Getting ideas and inspiration for what to include in your child’s lunchbox can be a difficult task.  Healthy eating is simply about getting a better balance and eating a wide variety of foods.  All foods provide energy and nutrients, and it is achieving the correct intake of those nutrients that are important for health.  Variety is the key to a healthy diet, so try not to offer the same foods on consecutive days.  By including a broad range of different foods, a much wider variety of nutrients will be eaten.  The ‘Healthier Lunchbox Checklist’ helps to explain what ‘a healthy mix’ means in terms of getting a well-balanced meal in a lunchbox.

Healthier Lunchbox Checklist:

• A good portion of starchy food: e.g. thick wholemeal bread, chapatti, pitta pocket, pasta or rice salad
• Plenty of fruit and vegetables: e.g. an apple, a satsuma, handful of cherry tomatoes or carrot sticks, mini-tub of fruit chunks or a small box of raisins
• A portion of milk or dairy food: e.g. individual cheese portion or pot of yoghurt
• A portion of lean meat, fish or alternative: e.g. ham, chicken, beef, tuna, egg, hummus or bean/lentil salad
• A drink: e.g fruit juice, milk or water.

Please note that we are a NUT FREE school, so please do not send any nuts or products containing nuts (such as peanut butter or cereal bars with nuts) into school with your child.

Here is some useful information on healthy lunches: - https://www.nhs.uk/change4life/recipes/healthier-lu

Any enquiries regarding free meal entitlement should be addressed to Bexley Council's Free School Meals Team:

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