Eating at Wolfreton
Wolfreton School was awarded level three status for its commitment to becoming a healthy school in 2006. An integral part of becoming a healthy school is healthy eating and the schools catering team have already made significant changes to the provision of food and drink in the school.
We have introduced healthier menus including:
- no crisps, sweets or carbonated drinks
- provision of free fresh chilled water from dispensing machines.
- a reduction in the number of days fried food is served
- a reduction in high fat foods such as sausage rolls, pasties etc
- an increase in the provision of salads, fruit and vegetable choices
- an increased fruit and vegetable content of recipes
- an increase in the use of wholemeal flour and whole grains
These changes have all been made in line with the Government's food policy in schools.
Click on the links below for further information
Lower School - Menus for January - March 2010 (PDF)
Upper School - Menus for January - March 2010 (PDF)
School Food Trust Parental Guide - A short booklet for parents and carers explaining the standards and their implementation in schools together with guidance and ideas for healthy lunchboxes.
School Food Trust Parental Leaflet - A helpful and informative leaflet for parents and carers on the new meals in schools and the standards.
Environment
There has also been significant investment in the dining rooms by updating the furniture and environment over the last few years.
Wolfreton has five points of sale for food and drink :-
Year 7 - East Block Dining Room
Years 8-9 - West Block Dining Room
Years 10-13 - Upper School Dining Room
Years 12-13 - 6th Form Centre
Years 10-13 - Eat Street Shop
The dining areas provide full menu choices for students, whilst the 6th form centre offers lighter food, sandwiches and salads. The Eat Street shop at upper school sells sandwiches, boxed salads, fruit, yoghurt and bottled water and is very popular.
Future developments
As part of the Healthy Schools initiative we are also looking at improving the outside seating areas at upper and lower school for students. If you have any suggestions on improving our catering services or maybe a favourite recipe we could consider for use, please contact us at enquiries@wolfreton.eril.net
Cashless Catering
The school operates a cashless catering system called IMPACT. Pupils use a swipe card at the till point instead of handing over cash. Money is added to the system by parents either.
- logging onto Parentpay.com and using their debit/credit card to top up the cards. This method tops up the pupils card within 10 minutes of making the payment online.
- By cheque payment made payable to 'Wolfreton School' which can cover any fixed monetary amount. These are credited to the students account by the following morning.
- By cash (notes only) into automatic cash revaluation terminals. The revaluation terminals are programmed to accept £5, £10 and £20 notes.
There are a lot of benefits to this system and these include:
- Convenience of paying for school meals. No more looking for change every morning.
- Discourages the misuse of school lunch money through spending in shops outside of the school grounds.
- Alleviates many of the associated problems with the use of cash in schools i.e. loss, theft and bullying.
- Healthy eating is encouraged (the school is looking at a rewards system for choosing healthy options).
- Queuing times are reduced through increased speed of service.
- A more efficient delivery of service helps the caterer to provide wholesome, healthy and enjoyable school meals at low cost.
For more information please download the FAQ document.
Picnic4Lunch
Picnic4Lunch is an online ordering system for healthy packed lunches. The service allows you to pre-select a healthy packed lunch from our set menu. Your selection will then be prepared and available for collection from the canteen during lunchtimes. You can make a Picnic4Lunch selection for as many days of the week as you wish and have until midnight every Thursday to make your selections for the following week. You will receive email confirmation of your order and you will need to make payment via your Parent Pay account.
As part of the Healthy Schools initiative we are also looking at improving the outside seating areas at upper and lower school for students.
If you have any suggestions on improving our catering services or maybe a favourite recipe we could consider for use, please contact us at enquiries@wolfreton.eril.net
