School Catering
Catering at Cams Hill School 2025/2026
Led by Chef Manager Mr. Watkins and his dedicated team, our in-house kitchen delivers a diverse range of freshly prepared, nutritious meals tailored to meet the needs of our school community. Being fully in-house allows us to respond flexibly and creatively to our customers’ preferences.
Dining Experience
Food is served across multiple stations located throughout the school grounds, including an outdoor-facing servery. We offer:
- A covered outdoor seating area, ample indoor seating, and overflow space in the Events Hall
- Staggered lunchtimes to ensure smooth service
- A variety of food stations:
- Main Menu Counter
- Wrap & Roll
- Grab and Go
- Chef’s Pod
- Catering Trailer
Our Food Offerings
- Wrap & Roll: Freshly made sandwiches, wraps, and salads with a wide choice of fillings, sauces, and salad items
- Chef’s Pod: Bespoke specials and live cookery, customisable to your taste
- Main Meals: A rotating selection of nutritionally balanced hot meals served throughout the week
- Morning Break: Hot and cold grab-and-go options
- Dietary Needs: Dairy-free, gluten-free, vegan, and vegetarian options available daily
- Allergen Information: Weekly menus and traffic-light allergen sheets provided for clarity
- Compliance: All grab-and-go items are labelled in accordance with Natasha’s Law
Sustainability & Community Commitment
- Compostable disposables and canned drinks to reduce plastic waste
- Locally sourced ingredients from trusted suppliers
- Support for local families through frozen homemade meals during school holidays
- Ongoing innovation with theme days, weekly specials, homemade drinks, featured desserts, live cookery, and BBQs
- No Child Goes Hungry Policy: Extended overdraft available for pupils without lunch or funds, ensuring every child is nourished and ready to learn
Main Menu & Sample Meal Deals
We operate a three-week rotating menu featuring freshly prepared hot meals. Each main meal is priced at £3.25, which includes a main course and either a dessert or a can of plain water.
Sample Dishes:
- Sweet & Sour Chicken Balls with Rice & Sweetcorn
- Homemade Jumbo Sausage Roll Bake with Chips & Beans
- Roast Pork with Yorkshire Pudding, Roast Potatoes, Broccoli, Carrots & Gravy
- Bean Chilli Nachos with Salsa, Sour Cream & Self-Serve Salad
Not in the mood for a hot meal? We also offer light bites, filled jacket potatoes, and more.
Cashless Catering
Cams Hill School operates a cashless catering system. Each child has an account that can be topped up online or via a machine in school and can pay for items in the Dining Hall and the Kiosk without cash. This means shorter queues and quicker service, as well as giving parents/carers the facility to check their child’s account and track their purchases of food. This is all done through Arbor.
This system uses biometrics and a ‘digital fingerprint signature’. This is not the same as a visual image of a fingerprint—while pupils’ fingerprints are scanned, they are then converted into a mathematical algorithm and the image of the fingerprint is deleted. This means that the scanner at the till points can recognise your child’s fingerprint but that there is no way this information can be used for any other type of identification purposes. The information that is stored by the system is only in the form of numbers and it cannot be converted back into an image of a fingerprint. In this way, your child’s fingerprint is kept totally secure and cannot be used by other agencies. The information will be deleted when your child leaves Cams Hill School.