School Meals

Who provides my child's lunches?

Dolce - a family run, third-generation caterer passionate about creating healthy home-cooked meals, proudly provide your child's lunches. We also provide exceptional service for both pupils at the counter and parents via our market-leading approach to customer care and modern catering innovations.

With nutritious, tasty meals – cooked fresh from raw ingredients – we make sure that lunchtime is a highlight of the day whatever the stage of your child's school journey.

Pupils and parents can order from home, or on the move via our award-winning system, SchoolGrid.

For more information on our Food Hygiene Rating, please click here. 

Making lunchtimes enjoyable for every child

We aim to make lunchtime an enjoyable experience for every child. Using a touch screen, children select their names at the hot plate, displaying their meal choice to both the cook and child, along with any allergies or dietary requirements. Our system helps the cook get to know each child on a first name basis, making them feel welcome at the lunch counter. 

Children sit in family groups at lunchtimes with a mix of up to 8 children from two year groups. Children who have sandwiches and hot dinners all eat together. Lunchtime is treated as part of daily socialisation so once children have finished eating they can spend time talking with the children in their family groups and playing card games. 

Pre-ordering

We want you to know everything there is to know about our menus. That is why we use SchoolGrid, the award winning online pre-ordering system. Here you can see what’s on offer across the whole term, including any special theme days which run throughout the academic year!

You can order flexibly, either day by day or up to a full term in advance. To help make an informed choice for your child, we provide the full ingredients list, recipe card and nutritional breakdown for each dish. The sophisticated allergen blocking system prevents you and your child from ordering any unsafe meal options.

All you need to do is tick which of the allergens apply and let the system take care of the rest.

For more information please click here.

Free school meals

Is your child entitled to Free School Meals? Head over to your local government website or to your school office to find out more and apply. You could save yourself hundreds of pounds each year.

Please click here to apply for Free School Meals. 

Packed Lunch Guidance

Here at Bridgtown Primary school we positively promote the health and wellbeing of all our children. Healthy eating is a high priority and the content of lunchboxes needs to reflect the requirement of school to meet minimum food and nutrition standards for school meals. 

The effects of unhealthy packed lunches and food intake can include poor growth, tooth decay, obesity, anaemia, constipation, poor concentration and  behavioural problems which may have an impact on a child’s learning. 

British Nutrition Foundation produced a set of guidelines recommending what should be included in lunch boxes to provide children with a healthy meal.

The recommended contents of a healthy lunch box are:

• A good portion of starchy food e.g. wholegrain roll, thick slice of bread, pitta pocket, plain cracker, pasta or rice salad.
• Plenty of fruit and vegetables e.g. an apple, satsuma, handful of cherry tomatoes or carrot sticks, mini can of fruit chunks (decanted into a plastic container), small box of raisins
• A portion of milk or dairy food e.g. individual cheese portion, pot of yogurt.
• A small portion of lean meat, fish or alternative e.g. 2 slices of ham, quorn, cheese, tuna, egg or hummus.
• A drink e.g. small carton of fruit juice, no added sugar fruit squash. 
• One small packet of crisps, a fruit scone or portion of malt loaf, a small cake or biscuit may also be included (please avoid chocolate as much as possible).

We ask that children do not swap or share their food from lunch boxes, due to allergies. 

Bridgtown Primary School is a Nut Free School