The aim of Moorfield’s catering staff is to provide good, nutritious, safe and tasty home-cooked food using, where possible, fresh ingredients. Our meat is from a local butcher; vegetables, salad and fruit from a local greengrocer; bread from a local bakery and we use a local milkman; everything delivered fresh every day to our doorstep … the best quality it is possible to achieve.
The menu is rotated on a four weekly cycle and we cater for all diets, food intolerances and allergies, keeping these children safe with this continuity of menu pattern.
There are three choices of main course every day – a meat option, a vegetarian option and jacket potato with cheese, tuna and beans. Yoghurt and fresh fruit are on offer every day too. We mark special occasions, usually with puddings, e.g., pancakes, Easter cake, Halloween buns, etc. Pupils make their choices in advance to ensure there is plenty of their favourite food available. However, our Early Years children are provided with the most nutritious option from the above in our efforts to guide and encourage them towards healthy and balanced food choices as they grow and progress through the school.
The School Council devotes a meeting each term to commenting constructively on the lunch menu and to offer new ideas. We want the children to enjoy food at Moorfield and to look forward to lunchtime … We know they do by the comments we receive from them!
