At Whitehall Park School, we are very lucky to have Caterlink providing us with our delicious food each day made from the best produce. Ensuring a healthy, nutritious and balanced lunch for our children.
At Whitehall Park School, we are very lucky to have Caterlink providing us with our delicious food each day made from the best produce. Ensuring a healthy, nutritious and balanced lunch for our children.
School meals here at Whitehall Park are provided by a specialist company called Caterlink. They are an award winning food service provider catering for primary schools. Caterlink have been able to develop a bespoke menu for Whitehall Park which is cooked in our own kitchen!
“We are passionate about providing your children with award winning Food for Life freshly prepared school lunches that are true to our fresh food heritage. We track down the best fresh produce and ensure it reaches each school kitchen as quickly as possible. Our chefs use RSPCA Freedom Food free range eggs, Marine Stewardship Council approved sustainable fish and Red Tractor approved fresh meat. The British countryside and its farmers need our support and we are more than happy to give it!” Caterlink
Free hot lunches for all.
At Whitehall Park School we recognise the importance of a healthy hot lunch, we believe that all children should be given the opportunity to have a free hot lunch. Pupils learn not just to make healthy food choices, but to absorb other, less tangible goodies, such as table manners and the art of conversation. The dining room becomes the symbolic hub of the school, binding pupils and teachers together with the invisible threads of ritual. Funding is only available from Islington for children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2. We feel that all of our children, regardless of their background or age should have a free school meal and now they will!! We have decided to make up the shortfall and make free school lunches available for all of our children from Reception to Year 6.
Free School Meals and Pupil Premium Grant
From September 2014 all children who are in reception, year 1 or year 2 in a state-funded school will be offered a free healthy school lunch. Children in other school years will also be offered a free school lunch if their parent is receiving any of the welfare benefits listed below. Registering could raise money for your child’s school. Registering for free meals could raise an extra £1,300 for your child’s school, to fund valuable support like extra tuition, additional teaching staff or after school activities. This additional money is available from central government for every child whose parent is receiving one of the welfare benefits listed in the form. It is therefore important to sign up for free school meals, even if your child is in reception, year 1 or year 2, so that your child’s school receives as much funding as possible. All children, who are entitled to free school meals need to be identified by each individual school as the school will receive additional funding. Therefore, please complete the following forms if you receive any of the benefits and entitlements listed below:
If you receive Working Tax Credit you are not eligible to claim for free school meals unless:
How the information in this form will be used:
Example dishes
All of the Caterlink menus are scrutinised by a dietitian who works very closely with them and the council. Every menu item is analysed by us and checked by the dietician. Below are a couple of examples of dish analysis. The same type of analysis is undertaken on every menu item.
Bean and Vegetable Pasta Bake analysis
If your child haS a food allergy, special dietary request or intolerance, please ask a member of our catering team for information. If you are a parent or guardian and your child has a school lunch and has a food allergy or intolerance you will be asked to complete a form to ensure we have the necessary information to cater for your child. Please note that we no longer serve Halal meat at Whitehall Park School. We do have wonderful vegetarian options available everyday.
Working in line with the governments food standards guidelines we aim to encourage healthy choices and discreetly improve their diets through a wide variety of dishes and menu choices. We also ask for regular feed back through the school food forum and questionnaires, we like to encourage the children at Whitehall Park School to take an active role in new dish suggestions to make the menu their own.
Please click on the Menu below to view the Autumn choices.
You can now view our ‘Festive Menu’ below.
This year Caterlink will be taking over the breakfast provision, there will now also a hot option available as well as cereal.
Please click on the link below to view the Autumn breakfast choices.
Caterlink will now be providing a healthy snack for all children who attend Extended Schools clubs and Twilight.
Please click on the link below to view the Autumn Tea and Snack menu.