Welcome to the School Kitchen

With over 30 years’ experience of school catering, our successful ethos is to provide healthy, local, responsible sourced food that children love. Our tasty, freshly cooked, nutritious dishes help your children flourish and reach their potential. As part of a balanced diet, our lunches provide a third of a child’s daily calorie intake, to aid concentration levels and give them energy to focus and to play.

In the current climate we want to assure our schools and their communities that we have rigorous risk assessments in place to make sure our teams and the schools they serve have safe working practices. We follow Government and the Food Standard Agency and Public health advice to the letter.

We know that providing award winning meals is not enough and so at Hampshire County Council Education Catering we go that step further, by helping schools and the wider community to encourage children, parents, carers to live healthy lifestyles and think sustainably. Our added value ‘Food to Flourish Classroom’ resources help teachers educate children in an innovative, food related fashion that cuts across the curriculum. We always doing our best to think sustainably ourselves, you can find out exactly what we are doing as business here. 

Celebrate with us throughout the academic year as we support Nutrition and Hydration Week, British Food Fortnight, and National School Meals Week; key events in the food and drink calendar which are lots of fun.

Click here to find out more about Hampshire County Council Education Catering. 

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Living with allergies comes with its own set of rules so when it comes to food, as education caterers, we want to make this as easy as possible for you as a family. Our staff are trained in food safety and regularly update their skills on allergens.

We never underestimate the dangers of food allergies and intolerances and we know what a big deal this is for you as parents. Trusting someone else to feed your child is a huge responsibility. And that’s why we work hard to get it right.

During summer 2021, we are launching an exciting new medical special diet registration process, which will mean that you and your child’s school will have access to all the details you provide about your child’s medical condition so
we can devise a safe school lunch menu for them. Easy to use, you will be able to create your own account, upload medical evidence, and see your child’s diet in your own online space.

Access to our new registration process will be via our dedicated special diet webpage www.hants.gov.uk/hc3s/primaryschools/specialdiets

You’ll find our special diet matrix online with list of ingredients for our dishes from our ‘classics’ menu. As we always offer at least two dishes each day for school lunch, you may find that the alternative dish works and choose not to register your child. In doing so you are taking responsibility for your child’s choice. However, we do always strongly recommend full registration for any child with food allergies.

NEED MORE INFORMATION?
Are you apprehensive about your child’s medical special diet requirements when they start school?
Let us reassure you. Contact us for advice.
E-mail: hc3sfooddevelopment@hants.gov.uk or call 0370 779 7723

SCHOOL LUNCHES
They’re healthy, fun, seasonal and free!

Starting school is the beginning of a whole new chapter in your child’s life. It’s a time to make friends and have lots of new experiences.
School meals are a fantastic opportunity for children to get together and share the experience of trying new foods. Knowing that your child is having a healthy, delicious and sustainably cooked meal every day, is one less thing for you to worry about.