Food
At Beeston, we provide fresh, healthy, home-cooked food, using locally sourced ingredients. Our meals are varied, nutritious, well-balanced and, above all, delicious.
Our catering team cook breakfast, lunch, and supper seven days a week; they also bake Beeston’s famous match teas, as well as staging silver service canapé receptions and banquets for multiple events throughout the year.
We ensure that all of our butchers, greengrocers, and suppliers are committed to providing the best quality, with the highest standards of accredited health and safety. Food is locally sourced wherever possible and, as a matter of course, our suppliers have procedures covering full traceability of source through the supply chain, with comprehensive food labelling, containing allergen and nutritional data.
For main meals, children sit according to their designated houses, with a mixture of ages and a member of staff on each table. Our main meal of the day is varied and nutritious, with a vegetarian option always available, notwithstanding the ever-popular mid-week roast on Thursdays.
Our salad bar is open every day, with a choice of fresh fruit or pudding to follow. For supper, there is always a hot meal and salad bar, followed by a pudding and/or yoghurts, cheese and biscuits, and fresh fruit.
At 4.30pm children are encouraged to have a piece of fruit with a drink. Fruit is available throughout the day.
Boarders may buy a small amount of sweets (tuck) on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. We ask that parents do not send in additional tuck, as the children are not allowed sweets outside of these times.
We take a sensitive approach to eating and all children are encouraged by the staff member on their table to try what is on offer, even if they just have a ‘No, thank you’ portion.
We operate a nut-aware school. Allergies are catered for on a case-by-case basis and the school will meet individual requirements that are based upon attested medical grounds.
The pupil-led Food Council meets twice per term to discuss menu planning and any issues the children feel are important in relation to food.
