Children have the choice of having packed lunches or hot meals. Hot meals need to be ordered online and paid for in advance. They can be taken daily or on selected days during the week. Menus are on a three-week rota - there is always a choice of a main meal, jacket potato or a vegetarian option.

Hot meals are provided free of charge for all pupils in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 as part of our government's commitment to Universal Free School Meals for infants. The vast majority of families at Colehill take up this offer of a free hot meal for their children. However, parents are not obligated to do so and some pupils do bring a packed lunch. 

Paid meals are offered to pupils in years 3 and 4 at a daily cost of £2.80. Meals are provided by Forerunner, a local provider with an excellent reputation for catering in schools and other settings.

We encourage the children to eat as much of their meal as possible and to try a bit of everything. If yoru child has not eaten their hot school meal well, we will send a note home. Please provide a water bottle for your child. Water is available for those who have forgotten.  

For the school menu, please click on the choices below.

To order meals for your child/ren, please click here.

 

About Forerunner - Our Hot School Meal Supplier 

Please see the attached link to their website www.hotmealsonwheels.com

Forerunner’s menu is a three-week rolling menu. Each day there are three options – a main, a vegetarian choice and a jacket potato choice. Each meal has a G, D, E or V after it and this signifies that the meal is either Gluten Free, Dairy Free, Egg Free or Vegan.  Every day at least one of the meals will cater to any of those allergies or preferences. 

All menus meet the requirements of the School Food Plan. There is a new menu every term and Forerunner prepare this in conjunction with feedback from schools.  

Every day bread (50/50) is provided to the school as well as yoghurts and fresh fruit for those children who do not want the pudding on a particular day. All meals are accompanied by vegetables, which change regularly.
Forerunner use local suppliers as much as they can. Meat is sourced from Wessex Gammon and fish comes from Crown Foods in Wimborne. Their fresh produce comes from Harvest Fine Foods in Hampshire. All food is prepared at their facility in Southbourne.

Some of the products used by Forerunner have the standard disclaimer 'may contain nuts, milk, eggs etc’. ‘May contain’ is known as precautionary labelling and can indicate that cross-contamination may be possible within the premises in which the products are made.

Forerunner are a nut free premises and do not use any products that contain nuts nor are any items that contain nuts allowed onsite.

Please bear all this information in mind when selecting meals for your child. If you would like to order hot school meals please log onto Forerunner My School Orders and follow the instructions as per the attachment at the end of this message.