Catering

Ashby School provides healthy and appetising meal options for hundreds of students every day.

“A lot of our ideas are based on good, old fashioned home cooking – things like roast dinner, bread pudding, and fruit cake.” Nicola Wright; Catering manager

Affordable restaurant-style main meals, hot paninis, filled bagels, jacket potatoes and homemade cakes all encourage students to eat well and lead a healthy lifestyle in line with government recommendations. Milkshakes, fruit juices and sparkling fruit drinks are served as popular alternatives to sugary and fizzy drinks and no crisps or chocolate are sold on site.

We do place a £6 daily limit on spending for students in Year 7 to 11. If you would like to increase this you can inform us by e-mailing Wisepay@ashbyschool.org.uk.

Hot meal availability

All students have a choice of two hot meal options, one of which is vegetarian. These follow a four-week rolling menu shown below. Hot meals are available individually but can also be purchased as part of a meal deal with a drink and a cake for the price of a free school meal voucher or £3.50. Additional side items can be purchased for 50p.

Catering outlets

The Key Stage 3 dining area is only open to Year 7 and 8 students.

Café Express is predominantly for use by students in Year 9, 10 and 11. Year 7 and 8 students are welcome in here.

The Courtyard Café is also open at break time selling cold grab and go items.

At Ashby School, all student catering will be charged in accordance with the published price lists in all catering outlets. Meal deals are available to all students as part of our catering offer – this is priced to match free school meal allowances for those eligible students.

Recycling and Reusables

In all catering areas, we now offer reusable crockery and cutlery for main meal services. Water is available at water fountains for students with their own water bottles. If students request food items to takeaway from catering outlets (such as ‘Grab & Go’ items), they are offered takeaway containers which will be additionally charged at cost. All takeaway containers and cutlery are biodegradable.

Ashby School uses Wisepay for deposits to its cashless catering system – all parents & carers will be provided with login details and all students are supplied with a card to use for payment in school. Any Wisepay queries should be addressed to Wisepay@ashbyschool.org.uk

There is more information available for people interested in nutritional issues at www.nutritionist-resource.org.uk