Category: Lunches
Lunch Times at Calderwood (Term 3)
Term 2 Lunch Times
Lunch Ordering Reminders Via iPay
Dear parent/ carer,
I just wanted to make contact, with a reminder as to how you use iPay to order your child’s lunch.
All Primary 1-7 families should pre-order their child’s lunch, on a daily or weekly basis. The only exceptions to this, are those children who have just enrolled and don’t have their log in yet, or those families who don’t have access to the internet.
The options on iPay are:
- School dinners (these are free for all children in Primary 1-5, and those children who have specifically applied for free school meal entitlement:
– 2 hot meal choices– 2 sandwich choices– special diet – those children who have an intolerance/ allergy. The school should already be made aware of these children and a special diet set up.
- Packed lunch – when your child brings a lunch from home
- Eating at home – if your child is going home for lunch/ including a Friday
- Absence – Your child is off school that day
Families who want their child to have a sandwich packed lunch from the school kitchen on a Friday, should order this by 9:30am on a Thursday. This allows the kitchen to ensure they have enough ingredients to make the larger sandwich lunch order on a Friday. They will no longer be able to order this option in clan on a Friday morning.
The benefits of using iPay for us as a school are:
- It doesn’t impact on your child’s learning time in the morning.
- Less admin time for teaching champs, and more teaching time in the morning.
- If children are late for school or at an appointment, their lunches are still ordered on time.
- Better communication between home, to the office, to the kitchen.
- More reliable numbers for lunches, ensuring that each child gets what they want they want for their lunch
Any family having issues with accessing iPay should phone the office or book a slot to pop in, so the office champs can set you up.
Our hope is, that will be able to organise lunches by everyone pre ordering and no one having to order in clan in the morning (apart from the children who have started Calderwood on that day).
Kind regards,
Miss Burton
Ordering Lunch for a Child with Allergies in School
Communicating your child’s allergy:
- If your child has an allergy you should communicate this through email to the school office.
- Appropriate forms will then be provided to the parent e.g. medication form, individual healthcare plan and flowchart
- If required, a ‘free from’ menu / individual menu will be provided to the parent
- Individual children’s allergies are then shared on a poster with their photo, name and allergens with the child’s champion and in the kitchen
- Any medication and flow charts are stored in the child’s classroom/first aid room (if appropriate)
Ordering lunch for your child:
- On iPay, you should then click ‘special diet’
- This information is shared with the kitchen who prepare the appropriate meal (from their menu if appropriate) for your child and their meal will be labelled with their name
- Your child’s champion will give your child a purple band indicating they have a special diet (purple bands on order)
- At lunchtime your child will give the kitchen champions a purple band and use the allergy poster to provide your child with their meal
