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Snacks

Snacks 

The School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme (SFVS) is a government programme that entitles every child in England, aged 4-6 in fully state-funded schools to a piece of fruit or vegetable each school day, this equates to approximately 2.3m children in approximately 16,300 schools. 

All pupils in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 have a daily choice of fresh fruit or vegetables. 

School Snack Guidelines for Key Stage 2 

We encourage Key Stage 2 pupils to bring in healthy snacks full of vitamins and minerals containing no added salt, fat or sugar. Many of these will help contribute to their 5 daily portions of fruit and vegetables, keep them alert and help them concentrate. It can be hard during the week to think of suitable items for them to bring in to school, but we are aiming, with the help of the children, to not only support them in making healthy choices regarding snacks, but to also reduce food packaging and waste.   

Providing snacks in a small, named, recyclable container is ideal.  

If you are intending to send in healthy snacks with your child please limit them to the list below.   

  • Vegetable sticks – such as celery, cucumber, peppers or carrot, a range of colour ensures different vitamins and minerals.   
  • A piece of cheddar cheese or cheese portion such as Babybel.   
  • A piece of fresh or dried fruit (including fruit winders such as yoyo bears), high in soluble fibre and vitamins and low in added sugar/ preservatives would also be a great snack– pineapple, mango, kiwi, plain raisins, apricots, blueberries, banana slices.   
  • Bread sticks, plain pretzels, banana bread, malt loaf, oat/rice cakes and small pitta breads are also good snacks, providing children with carbohydrate to sustain them in-between meals.   
  • Yoghurts such as Frubes/ tube pouches. 

All items must be nut free. Items brought into school should be carefully checked by you, to ensure this. At Henry Chichele, we have pupils who are severely allergic to a range of nuts.  

We are aiming for a common-sense approach, with the key being to keep it healthy and no chocolate, sweets or crisps.  

In the case of a pupil bringing a snack that doesn’t feature on our list, a member of staff may support them to swap the snack for a suitable snack from their lunchbox or provide a piece of fresh fruit substitute. In these cases, the removed snack will be returned to the pupil/family at the end of the day.  

Water Bottles 

We need the children to stay hydrated and so please ensure they bring a named water bottle into school daily. Squash and flavoured water is not encouraged but is permitted as long as it’s ‘weak’.