Food and Drink in School

Boston Pioneers adopts a healthy approach to school food; both in the meals we provide (breakfast and lunch) and in the food we encourage parents/carers to provide from home, if your child has a packed lunch.

Nutritional advice recommends a balanced mix of protein, fruit vegetables and healthy carbs in a packed lunch. Crisps and sugary snacks should be limited.

 

Juice or squash are acceptable drinks with a packed lunch. Otherwise, water bottles should be filled with fresh water each day.

Pease note: energy drinks, fizzy cans, milk shakes etc. Are not permitted as school drinks.

The sugar content is too great and the impact of this means children are prevented from learning as they experience a sugar high followed by an energy slump. These are both school and national guidelines.

School Meal Nutritional Information

At our academy, we use a dedicated system to help parents and carers make more informed dining choices for their children.

Saffron shows parents and carers full menu* and allergen information, and allows them to search for a particular dish – with everything grouped by day and week according to what will be served at our academy.

This helps us to continue to put the health and wellbeing of our pupils first while increasing the transparency of the school meals we serve.

Quantity information the Saffron system provides for each menu item includes:

Energy
Fat
Saturates
Sugars
Salts

Totals also each come with a colour, similar to a traffic light system, denoting low, medium or high levels for each meal.

Allergen information given for each menu item also cross references what that item contains, or may contain, and includes:
Gluten
Eggs
Peanuts
Soya
Milk
Nuts
Sesame Seeds
Lupin

Further details are provided for types of the above where appropriate too, such as wheat, oats, (almonds deleted as we are nut free), etc. Various search filters can also be applied including searches for Vegan, Vegetarian and Halal.

We hope this system proves useful to you, giving you ‘at-a-glance’ information to support the meal choices you make for your child or children.

To access the Saffron system for our academy please go to: http://bostonpioneersacademy.mysaffronportal.com/

(*Menus may be subject to change)