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Tēnā koutou,   Thank you all for your feedback and support we have received over the last three weeks, especially at a local level with recent severe weather events and several school closures. It means a lot to us to provide lunches daily, as we continuously strive to improve our services, your ease of working with us, and our menu options. Driver Safety Safety is our number one priority at the School Lunch Collective - you and your students | ākonga safety, our safety and t

Thursday 29 January Pasta Salad next Wednesday As part of our focus on improving our menu, next Wednesday we will be serving a cold option of pasta salad, serving standard and vegetarian options. Vegetarian salads will be clearly labelled, and if we cannot meet the dietary requirements for some ākonga, we will serve a hot dietary meal instead. Click here to see next week's menu: https://www.schoollunchcollective.co.nz/weeklymenupage . We keep this page updated with menu c

You can now change your lunch orders in the portal up to seven days before our lunch service. This gives schools and kura much more flexibility to change lunch numbers in response to school events such as Teacher-Only-Days and Education-Outside-The-Classroom. In 2025, the close-off day was fourteen days. Some quick reminders to help you with your lunch orders this year: The Menu Information tab is for loading the number of lunches you need and uploading your students' dietary

Welcome to 2026 School Lunch Collective schools and kura. Our first lunch service this year is on Monday 26 January. Over the summer, we have been working hard to improve our menu variety. This year we will offer a standard ten-day menu cycle each term. That means ten different meals over ten days - up from a seven-day menu cycle in terms 3 and 4 last year. Check our standard menu cycle here . We will also be keeping the menu fresh and varied with "pop-up" meals throughout t