school dinners

Little_Miss_Winner

how old is she?

katiesmummy

potogold wrote: »

how old is she?

she's almost 7

tightrs

refuse to pay any money and ask to see the head to clear this matter up ,only you know how trustworthy your daughter is but i would believe my daughter and would not be bullied into paying any money.

sticher

Why has it taken the school this long to let you know if this is the case?

Where I work (Junior school) we would not necessarily notice if a child who is marked as packed lunch went up for a hot dinner - we only check the hot dinners in.

carolpinkdreamer

Our dinner ladies count how many children are hot meals and tally that with dinner register, and then count the sandwich children. This is neccessary to make sure you have the correct number of children and to know who is where.
If they have a figure that is different to dinner register, they query it immediately, not months later.
With Infant children, it is the dinner ladies responsibility to ensure the children are in the correct queue and eating the correct meal.
I'd believe your daughter particularly if her lunch box is empty too.

black-saturn

I've read this through and it sounds to me like your daughter is eating a packed lunch and a school dinner on some days. If your going to be charged for school dinners you may as well not send her with a packed lunch and tell her to have a school dinner every day.

Lusignan

My thought is that she's occasionally had a school dinner for reasons of her own. Fancied something hot? Because her friends had a dinner? At 6 she may well not be aware that she's not 'supposed' to.

southwestmaid

I'm a mealtime assistant in an infant school and we would know right away if there was an 'extra' dinner. Seems very strange to me. We would also notice her packed lunch box and query it with the teacher. There is no way we would sit a child with a pack lunchbox with children eating school dinner. I would speak to the head.

katiesmummy

Lusignan wrote: »

My thought is that she's occasionally had a school dinner for reasons of her own. Fancied something hot? Because her friends had a dinner? At 6 she may well not be aware that she's not 'supposed' to.

tbh this is what i thought when i first spoke to the school, but dd is adamant that she hasnt! i can usually tell when she's fibbing, so i think i will have to go and speak to the head on monday if i am going to get to the bottom of this

thanks for all your advice

poe.tuesday

hold on here, surely the school knows how many children it is catering for, be it in-house catering or external, it makes no difference, and as this surely is the case then why on earth would they be catering for another child that has meals every now and again? makes not sence to me.

Do not pay until they prove to you that she has eaten the meals, write to them asking why they have permitted her to eat the meals when you have not told the school that she is requiring school dinners, and finally, how dare they bully you in saying that if you don't pay then your daughter can not attend any after school events, raise that in writting too to the head and the governors