Food and Catering @ St George's
Our two kitchens are run by Jennie Price (Catering & Hospitality Manager) and a team of qualified staff. The school is supported by professional catering consultants who check our meals meet the national school food standards for nutritional value and quality.
Children in Foundation 2, Year 1 and Year 2 receive Universal Free School meals and do not need to pay for lunches. For Years 3-6, we charge £2.60 for each school lunch and £1.75 for nursery children who stay with us all day.
This is to cover kitchen and food costs and should be paid in advance on Compass. We do not want debts to mount up, if you are having difficulties paying please contact the school office. If you believe you may be entitled to Free School Meals please visit our free school meals information page.
Food Offer
The menu changes every day and runs on a three-week rotation. Children have a daily choice of:
- Freshly prepared hot meal (see menu)
- Jacket potato options with full salad bar.
- Deli bar with filled sandwiches, wraps and salad
- Hot Deli option for children in years 3 to 6 with salad bar (see menu)
Served with:
- Low sugar dessert, fresh fruit or yoghurt
- Low sugar juice (150ml maximum daily allowance) or water
To see this term's menu please click on the links below.
If you have any questions about the catering provision at St George's Primary School please contact the Catering & Hospitality Manager via the school office.
Bronze Award Success
The team recently achieved a Food for Life Bronze Award, which means that the food we serve has been rigorously ass
essed to ensure it’s high quality, healthy and sustainable.
As a Food for Life Bronze school we:
- Have committed to improve school food culture by developing a school food policy.
- Meet Bronze Food for Life Served Here Award standards which shows that school food is healthy and uses seasonal ingredients that are at least 75% freshly prepared.
- Involve pupils and parents in planning improvements to school menus and the lunchtime experience, boosting school meal take-up.
- Give every pupil the opportunity to visit a local farm, and take part in cooking and food growing activity.
Well done to Jennie Price, our Catering Manager and her amazing team for achieving this award.
Eatwell Challenge
We are absolutely focused on ensuring that our school meals are high quality and nutritious. We promote our 'eatwell challenge' and encourage all children to try a portion of at least one fruit, salad and vegetable daily. We have found that this has been very successful and developed positive habits and attitudes towards food choices.
Most foods are prepared from scratch and we serve fresh vegetables, fruit and salad daily. Most days there are over 15 choices of fruit, vegetables and salads.
Allergens and Dietary Needs
We ensure that we carefully manage all allergens. School's policy and risk assessment can be read in our medical care policy page.
If your child has a medically diagnosed allergy we will ask you to complete an online form for us using our Compass App and parent portal.
If your child has any dietary needs or food intolerances these can be sent to our catering manager through the school office or compass app.
Packed Lunches
Packed lunches should also follow school standards. We encourage healthy packed lunches.
Ideas for healthy school packed lunches can be read using links below.
Good Food healthy packed lunch recipes page
Strong 4 Life healthy lunchboxes page
Children can bring in a low sugar drink and biscuit/cake as part of their packed lunch.
Children are not allowed:
- Fizzy drinks
- Confectionery (sweets and chocolate bars)
- Nut based products
Food In School Day
We serve food throughout the school day and encourage children to eat healthy and stay hydrated.
Please note the following policies that are dictated by school food standards.
- All children should have their own refillable water bottles. They can fill these using our water stations and have access to them throughout the day. Children are not allowed to put juice in bottles. School food standards state that children can only have 150ml or juice or 330ml if combined with water.
This should be served at lunchtime through school meals or packed lunches.
Milk is maximum of 250mls. parents can order milk in early years.
- Free fruit is provided as snacks for children in Early Years, Year 1 and Year 2
- Children in Years 3 to 6 can bring in a healthy playtime snack. This should be fruit, low sugar snack. Crisps or confectionery are not allowed at breaktimes. In years 5 and 6 we serve homemade low sugar snacks and fresh fruit on Tuesday and Thursday breaktimes.
- Dragon Club serve a daily snack menu with snacks, fruit and other options.
school food standards 140911 v2.pdf
There are some booklets of recipe ideas for anyone cooking on a budget. This can be found below.
healthy eating on a budget 1.pdf
healthy eating on a budget 2.pdf
60 second vegtastic lunchbox hacks 1 pdf.pdf
The latest menu is below:
