Children went hungry on their first day of secondary school after a nationwide outage hit a food payment system. A number of Year 7 pupils at Leigh Academy Tonbridge couldn’t buy lunch or a break-time snack, with some going “hungry”. The biometric system used by the school means youngsters use a screen to pay for food – using their thumbprint, which is usually scanned and registered at the start of term. Parents then add funds to a linked online account. However, a system issue yesterday (Tuesday) meant the academy could not record fingerprints or send payment information out. As a result, one…