School Meals
All our school dinners are cooked on site and are fantastic. A large percentage of our children have a cooked meal everyday. All children in EYFS and KS1 are entitled to a free school meal each day.
The meals are designed to meet national nutritional standards and assist the children with a healthy, balanced diet.
Please click onto the Chartwells website to find more information about school dinners at Stonegate and a menu of what's on offer.
https://www.eastsussex.gov.uk/educationandlearning/schools/school-life/meals/download/
Children who attend school on a full time basis may be eligible for free school meals. If you think you are entitled to claim free school meals please ask at the School Office.
Packed lunches
Packed lunches should be in a named container for storage until lunchtime. Please do not include sweets, chocolate bars or fizzy drinks in your child's lunch box. If you provide a yogurt please include a spoon. For ideas and expectations for healthy lunchboxes please use: https://www.nhs.uk/change4life/recipes/healthier-lunchboxes
For reasons of safety we are unable to allow hot drinks in thermos flasks or the use of glass bottles or cans. Plastic bottles, containers or cartons of drink are perfectly acceptable. During the summer term it is advisable to place a small ice pack in the lunch box to keep food cool.
Fruit for Morning Play
Fruit is available all four to six year old children in maintained schools. It entitles all children in Reception and Year 1/2 class to a free piece of fresh fruit or vegetable every school day.
The scheme aims to encourage children to eat more fruit and vegetables and contribute to a reduction in the risk of heart disease and cancer in later life. The scheme is run by the Department of Health, and any CSA-maintained school can choose to take part.
We ask parents to contribute to the cost of Key Stage 2 fruit. We want all children to have fruit each day.