Managing Allergies in School  

Our schools manage allergies in accordance with our First Aid and Medical Conditions, Managing Medication and Allergy Policy which can be found on our policy pages here. 

Our schools are ‘Allergy Aware’; this means that school staff have an awareness of allergies and the 14 key allergens; they understand how to deal with an anaphylactic episode and encourage pupils, visitors and parents to be allergy aware and ensure that their staff have a good awareness of allergens and how to manage a safe environment. 

School meals 

All the meals we provide are nutritionally balanced and meet stringent government guidelines.  Information about the menu and details of all allergens along with the process for ordering meals are on individual providers website. Meals must be ordered at least a week in advance and can be done for a whole term if preferred. 

Vegetarian diets are provided and most special dietary requirements can be catered for. 

The first step is to register your child with the provider for your child's school, once this is done, meals can be ordered. If a special diet is required, for example because of an allergen or medical condition then the provider will be in touch with the parent once registration is complete – this process is handled by directly by the provider and not the school. 

Please follow this link here to order a meal for your child.   

We are very proud to have our own school cook, Miss Jones, who prepares all school meals. She is supported in the kitchen by our kitchen assistant Miss Major. 

We are one of the only schools in Dorset who independently run our school kitchen, which enables us to craft healthy, balanced and seasonal menus, using government and school food standards guidelines.

Our meals are made from scratch and, each day, there is a main and vegetarian meal option, followed by the desert of the day or fresh fruit. 

*We cater for religious dietary requirments and allergies

Being an eco school, we like to keep our food miles as low possible. All of our fresh meat comes from the local butchers in Wareham and our fruit and vegetables come from a merchant in Wimborne. 

During the Autumn term, our eco-club harvest the apples from our large apple tree in the school grounds and these are used to make delicious apple crumbles. 

School meals are free for all of our Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 children under the Universal Free School Meals scheme.

Homemade Chicken & Vegetable Pie: Local butcher's chicken breast with a vegetable medley and gravy, topped with buttery pastry. Served with green beans and new potatoes. 

Sausages and Mash: Local butcher's chipolata sausages served with buttery mash, peas and sweetcorn.

Sweet and sour chicken with rice and crudites