School Dinners
Our day starts with a free Breakfast Club available to all pupils. We serve toast, yogurts, fruit, and cereals, together with milk and juice.
Health and nutrition is a crucial part of a child’s development. Good health is essential for learning and your brain’s ability to keep information. This is why here at Kentmere Academy, we work hard to ensure every student is provided with decent, nutritious meals that use high-quality ingredients. Schools can play an important role in both promoting healthy eating habits to children, and ensuring school food provides healthy balanced and nutritious meals with the appropriate amount of energy and nutrients pupils need. We are confident that we meet these requirements for all our students.
Our menus are on a three week rotation and subject to change. Special dietary needs can be catered for. All meals at Kentmere Academy are Halal.
Allergen aware
Our Allergy Policy can be found on our centralised Policies page in the Watergrove Trust section.
Advocacy groups such as The Allergy Team and Allergy UK don’t support a total ban on allergens in schools. This is because:
- It’s almost impossible to enforce it
- It’s impractical to ban all allergens (for example, milk)
- It can create a false sense of security
We follow the recommendation that, instead of banning allergens, we make our schools ‘allergen aware’. Please note that the school as a whole does not guarantee a completely allergen-free environment. However, this policy will be utilised to minimise the risk of exposure to allergens, encourage self-responsibility, and plan for an effective response to possible emergencies. Due to the presence of allergens in the school kitchen, the catering service cannot guarantee school meals to be 100% allergen free.
