Dear Parents / Carers
New breakfast and breaktime food service
From Tuesday 3rd November, the Academy’s food contractor, Operon, is pleased to offer a new breakfast and breaktime service to all students. The menu, including prices, is on the reverse of this letter and will be offered before school and at breaktime.
- Breakfast will be served only to students on the intervention programme between 7.15am and 7.45am. Each student attending intervention classes will be credited with an 80p allowance each day. This allowance must be used by 7.45am each day or it will be lost.
- All other students will be able to purchase breakfast between 8.00am and 8.20am.
- Free School Meals allowances cannot be used for the breakfast or breaktime menu. The Free School Meals credit is added to cards after 12.00pm each day to prevent this happening. Students on free school meals must have a card to which the cost of a meal is automatically credited to the card each day.
- All students must add credit to their card in the usual way, using cash or parentpay (see below), if they wish to purchase from the breakfast menu
Other improvements to the meals service include :
- A greater range of sandwiches and baguettes made each day on the premises will be available. There will be some delicious fillings to choose from including, for example, chicken salad and tuna mayonnaise.
- There are new menus starting after half term in response to students’ requests
Some final points about our catering service :
- Students can only eat or drink in the Dining Area, including packed lunches
- Students must pay in advance for all food or drink using their Academy card.
We are sure that parents and students appreciate that no-one can go to a café or restaurant and expect to take food without making full payment. The same rule applies at the Academy and our contractor rightly expects proper payment for the meals they serve. Parents will be informed by telephone in the first instance if their child is attempting to purchase food without sufficient credit. Students will be offered cereal as an alternative if there is insufficient credit on the card.
- Students should report to Reception in advance of selecting food or drink if they have lost their card or are experiencing problems with it.
- All hot main meals are halal.
- Parents/carers can pay electronically for food and drink through the ParentPay system. please click the link for more information. for more information and to pay using this method.
Yours truly,
Ms S Raynor, Associate Senior Leader |
