Home Packed Lunches

At Dover Park, we encourage parents to take up the Chartwell School Meals at lunchtime, however if parents choose to send in a Packed Lunch from home, we have a list of requirements for School lunchboxes to comply to.

These are national recommendations to encourage Healthy Eating which is so important to develop at an early age.

a lunchbox should include:

a portion of starchy food such as potatoes, bread, rice, pasta or other starchy carbohydrates
plenty fruit and vegetables;
a portion of beans, pulses, fish, eggs, meat or other proteins;
a portion of dairy or calcium fortified dairy alternatives;
a drink, e.g. water, semi-skimmed milk or 1% are healthy options.

More detail on the above information is included in the Word document in the section below.

Also foods high in fat, salt and sugars are not allowed (such as crisps, confectionary and sugary carbonated drinks). Dover Park also operates a NO NUT policy as we have pupils with severe reactions to nut products. This is taken very seriously by us, we will remove these foods and inform parents if we find these in lunchboxes.

There are some links and resources to help with ideas for a healthy lunchbox below.