Here at The Holgate Academy, we pride ourselves on providing a great quality and value for money service in the school canteen. We use a range of locally sourced suppliers from in and around the county to supply the school dinners, including: meat from a local butcher, free range eggs, fresh local milk and locally sourced freedom food accredited chicken and turkey.
All recipes are run through a nutritional programme to make sure they meet the standards required by the government’s nutritional guidelines. We are always in contact with the school council who provide us with feedback from the pupils in the various age groups regarding items they would like to see on the menu and ideas they may have to improve the service.
We use the sQuid cashless payment system. This system is a finger recognition system for the payment of dinners. It provides parents with an online website to access their child’s account to put money on and also to be able to see what their child is eating.
Once a year we are inspected by the local authority food standards agency which give a rating between 0 (urgent improvement) and 5 (very good), both kitchens here at Holgate gained a 5 rating once again this year.