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School Meals
Belvedere Infant and Junior Schools are pleased to inform you that we use Nourish as our school meals provider. As an academy we have a long standing and successful relationship with Nourish who pride themselves on providing nutritious meals that are freshly created each day. All meals are hot and the food is of high quality. There is a choice of meals every day which are pre-selected by parents using the Arbor app. A range of dietary requirements are provided for and there is always a vegetarian option.
Please see below for further information on ordering school lunches on Arbor and how it works for children in school:
New lunch system February 2026
All our children are entitled to free school meals through the London Mayor’s Free School Meals program.
However, there are also pupils who are eligible for free school meals because their parents receive certain benefits. If you think you may be eligible for free school meals please check using the following website: fsm.lgfl.net or speak to a member of staff in the office, as the school will receive additional funding towards your child’s education.
Free schools meals are available to young children and slightly older children in state schools whose families are on low incomes or who receive benefits themselves.
Across England and Wales, children can receive free lunches (and sometimes milk) if their parents or guardians claim:
- Income support
- Income-based jobseeker’s allowance
- State pension guarantee credit
- Income-related employment and support allowance
- Child tax credit, as long as they don’t also receive working tax credit and earn no more than £16,190 (£16,105 in Scotland)
- Working tax credit four week ‘run-on’ after stopping work
- support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
- Universal Credit, if someone applied since April 2018 and their income is less than £7,400 a year after tax and not including benefits. (This threshold is different in Scotland and Northern Ireland.) If someone applied for UC before then, there is no income threshold.
If you need any advice as to how to claim or check eligibility, please contact the school office.
Packed Lunch
NHS Change for Life Healthier Lunchboxes
BBC Good Food Healthy Lunchboxes
We would like to inform parents who choose to provide their child with a packed lunch that we are a healthy school and packed lunches should be nutritionally balanced.
Healthy lunchbox ideas
✓ Wholemeal or granary bread/wraps/pittas/bagels
✓ Fillings – chicken, turkey, tuna, reduced fat cream cheese/hard cheese
✓ Salads
✓ Vegetables i.e., cherry tomatoes, sticks of carrots, cucumber, celery, peppers
✓ Fruit
✓ Yoghurt
✓ A still drink in a flask or plastic screw top bottle.
Children are not to bring:
X Nuts or nut products (including flapjacks). Please note that under no circumstances must you put in any products that contain nuts. This includes hazelnut chocolate spreads such as Nutella. We have a number of children who are extremely allergic to nuts/nut products and who can suffer a life threatening reaction simply by being near them or touching surfaces where there may be nut product traces.
X Chocolate spread sandwiches
X Sweets or chocolate bars
X Cartons or drinks in foil pouches. The foil pouches are difficult to open and often spill easily and the cartons sometimes do not have a straw attached.
If your child has a food allergy or is unable to eat certain foods, please inform the school office.
