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School Meals

Lunchtimes at Padbury CE School

Fresh Start catering provide our school lunches.

We don’t want to be the biggest, just the best, using the best produce, employing the best people and offering the best customer service. In 2007 Fresh Start was founded with a vision to provide senior and primary school children with fresh, nutritional and healthy “home cooked” meals. Fast forward to the current day; that gusto for healthy eating gathered momentum and Fresh Start is now a small but perfectly formed, passionate company serving up hundreds of delicious, varied and balanced meals across the UK.

We cook from scratch and we mean it! All our meals are freshly prepared on site everyday. We source our produce locally where possible and make our food using raw ingredients. No nasties in any of our meals! Every menu we create is packed full of flavour, being healthy and balanced does not have to mean being bland and boring.

Key Stage 1

All children in Reception and Years 1 and 2 are eligible for a FREE hot school meal each day. These must be pre ordered through Fresh Start. For meals required NEXT WEEK Make your order by 12noon Thursday of this week for next week’s meals. If you do not wish to order a meal, please provide your child with a packed lunch. 

Key Stage 2

For children in Years 3 - 6 a hot school meal can be ordered and paid for directly through Fresh Start.   For meals required NEXT WEEK Make your order by 12noon Thursday of this week for next week’s meals.  If you do not wish to order a meal, please provide your child with a packed lunch. 

Please see attached a copy of Fresh Starts menu for the Autumn Term 2022.  Fresh Start do also offer a 'special diet menu'. 

Packed Lunches

If you do choose to provide a packed lunch for your child, please do remember that we are a NUT FREE school and therefore please do not include anything with nuts.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the School Office - 01280 813070 or email office@pdb.odbst.org. 

Fruit and Milk

As part of the Government “Fruit in School” initiative all children in EYFS, Year 1 and Year 2 are provided with a piece of free fruit at break time each morning. Children in Year 3 and above are encouraged to bring in a piece of fruit from home. Children under five and are also entitled to free milk Children over the age of five, from low-income families, may be eligible for free milk. Please enquire at the school office to register. All enquiries are treated in the strictest of confidence.

Do you qualify for FREE School Meals?