School Dinners
At Willesborough Infant School all children are entitled to a free school lunch.
This is because the government pays for every child in Reception, Year One and Year Two to have a 'Universal Free School Meal'.
We provide children with a well-balanced hot meal. If you would prefer, you can provide your child with a home packed lunch.
About 75% of our children choose to have a school lunch. Children are served a healthy main course including a range of self-serve salad options, after which the children can choose to have the day's dessert, a piece of fruit or a yogurt. The school dinner menu is wide and varied. The children are supplied with the menu at the beginning of each new term. The school kitchen will cater for children on dairy or gluten free diets, vegetarians and children who follow religious dietary practices.
Other children bring in a packed lunch. We ask that parents support the schools healthy eating ethos by providing a well balanced packed lunch without fizzy drinks or items with high sugar or fat content. Some of our children suffer from nut allergies and because of this we are a 'nut free school'. We ask that parents do not provide food items containing nuts in their child’s packed lunch.
Winter Menu
autumn winter kent menu 2024.pdf
Please click here to see a larger versionSnack Time
All our children enjoy a healthy snack time every day.
Free fruit and vegetables are offered to all of our children. Alternatively, parents can provide their child with their own healthy snack - a piece of fruit or vegetable.
Alongside this, the children also have their bottle of milk or water.
This provides a nutritional boost and keeps children hydrated between breakfast and lunch, helping them to concentrate and learn.
Snack Time at Willesborough Infant School is personal, interactive and purposeful. We give our children opportunities to socialise with their peers and develop their communication skills. As part of their snack time, children in year one and two have the opportunity to participate in playground games and even generate their own. In reception the children have ample opportunities to play outside in child initiated sessions.
Lunch time
OPAL (Outdoor Play and Learning)
We have just launched our exciting OPAL (Outdoor Play And Learning) provision at lunchtime.
Our vision is that every child in every school has an amazing high-quality play session every day – with no exceptions.
For this provision, your children will need welly boots and waterproof clothing so that they are ready to explore all of the play opportunities on offer.
Cool Milk
Cool Milk is the UK’s leading school milk supplier, working in partnership with local authorities and early years groups to supply free and subsidised school milk to children in pre-schools, nurseries and primary schools.
Milk contains nearly all the vitamins and nutrients of importance to humans, including over half of a child’s RDA of calcium vital to help build strong and healthy teeth and bones; and childhood provides a once in a lifetime opportunity to build these strong.
School milk is excellent as a mid-morning drink. It provides a nutritional boost and keeps children hydrated between breakfast and lunch, helping them to concentrate and learn.
As part of a government directive to ensure that all children in the UK receive the nutrients that milk provides, children under the age of 5 are entitled to one free 189ml portion of milk per day at school. This cost is funded by the UK government.
If you haven’t registered before you will need to create a parent account;
Just visit www.coolmilk.com/register.
You will then need to add your child(ren) to the account. If you already have an account, log in to your account at www.customers.coolmilk.com/manage/parent and you can add additional children.
Schools must now provide free milk for children entitled to benefits-based free school meals. If you feel that your child is entitled to free mid-morning milk, please contact our school office directly to request they register your child with Cool Milk – the school must add the child to their Cool Milk account you cannot do this on their behalf.
If you would like to cancel your child’s milk and you are paying for it then please email ‘Cool Milk’ at cancel@coolmilk.com and they will close your account and issue any appropriate refund.