Year 7 not eating at school

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My DD has just moved into year 7.
She complains some days she doesn't eat because there's no food left for her year.

The year 10/11's barge in front of the younger kids so they run out of time or food so they don't eat. I've found out today this is the option of a lot if her former year 6 class as we still have a old class group chat.
This is ridiculous that the school don't put procedures into place to ensure the kids get to eat. I'm going to check her purchase history since the beginning of term to check exactly what she's bought so I can see what days she hasn't managed to get food.
So far this week she hasn't bought a thing.
I'm so upset for these kids and raging at the school for not looking out for them

She / toy bhneeds to figure this out. Schools are massvely

Packed lunch. But im surprised she hasnt said earlier!

I would contact the school and let them know as it's not satisfactory that they run out of food.

However IME secondary school lunchtimes are ridiculous. At my DC's school the queuing time is so long that although there is enough food by the time you've queued up to buy it there's no time left to eat. My DC takes packed lunch every day now, which is a hassle but better for her.

My yr8 takes food as she doesn't want to spend the whole lunch break queuing. Each lunch break is maximum 2 year groups (so 400 pupils) but queues soon build.

Same at ours 12 forms a year. Packed lunch really option if they doing lunch clubs

At our school a teacher manages the queues so that doesn't happen. Packed lunch is a good solution, If she is on FSM and so has to take a school lunch, then complain to the school about their lunch management,

Not FSM unfortunately.

I've given her some lunch today to take but it's a shower of shit isn't it.
She'd prefer a hot meal but won't consider a flask of anything.
I have said she can take anything she likes as long as she eats something.

I've complained to our secondary school recently. I really wanted DD to have school meals but the one day she agreed to try them there was not enough sauce left for the pasta so she had dry cooked pasta for her lunch. That same day there was no where for her to sit so she ate her dry cooked pasta walking along the corridor.

I had an email back from my complaint saying they have 'implemented some changes' but DD refuses to give them another go. So she's back on packed lunches.

This also happened to my DD at her secondary, older kids pushing in and bullying. She won't take packed lunch saying she already carries a lot (school a 40 min walk each way)

My DD was like this at the start of year 7. It's overwhelming for them. Just give her a packed lunch until she gains her confidence. This is what my DD did. Now she's on school dinners everyday & there's no issues.

Loads of us have emailed to complain but I doubt anything will get done.
That's shit though and your poor DD must have felt awful.

I've done packed lunch for a few days now so at least shes eating

My DS school have packed lunches to buy/pick up (for FSM) at first break. This has massively helped lunchtime. Yes a lot of children barging to front are just being unpleasant, but often it’s because they’ve got a club and rush and need to get food. Those children tend to grab a packed lunch and so lunch queue leas chaotic.

It is the same at our year 9’s secondary. He has given up trying to eat at lunch either there is no food left that he can eat (vegetarian) or no time or place to eat it; he told me last year, that he and a friend, had resorted to using the top of a bin as a table and standing to eat😳
he tried pack lunches but other boys in his year kept taking bits (all in the same position I assume) its an all boys school so there is a lot of shoving and pushing.
I now have “lunch “ waiting for him when he gets in, usually a pasta pot and fruit and then I cook early dinner.

The same in ours. There’s no time and no decent food so they don’t bother. They take crappy cereal bar snack food as no one does packed lunches and they inhale the contents of the fridge when they get home.
sadly, it’s normal.

welcome to secondary after the safe bubble of primary where they make sure everyone’s eaten, everyone has nutritious food and the importance of it rammed into them. To essentially everyone shrugging.

An alternative to packed lunch is to buy something at break. Queues are likely to be shorter.

Although my DC quite often don't bother eating a "proper" meal at school as it's just too much of a rush in the lunch break. DS would come home and raid the cupboards. So adjusting out of school meals/eating is another option.

(My DC's school eventually changed to a split lunch break which improved but didn't fix the situation, and it did mean that later lunch people didn't eat until 1.30, so not ideal either. )

School canteens dont run out of food. They do run out of choice, but there is never a time when a child turns up for food and there is nothing