School Menu
Aspen Services Limited
In January 2009, Aspens Services Ltd was awarded the contract to provide the catering service at North Birmingham Academy.
We are delighted to be given the opportunity to work with the staff and pupils of such a friendly and welcoming school. Our aim is to constantly develop innovation and improve the service we provide to pupils and staff at the school.
Our philosophy on food is very simple – great food, freshly prepared and cooked using fresh locally supplied ingredients.
We have a strong commitment to do our bit in order to protect the environment. We have therefore sourced biodegradable packaging wherever possible for our grab & go items.
Food
Our food concepts have been implemented in the two dining halls.
Recipes and flavours from around the world
Traditional Italian Stone-baked pizza, pasta and Jacket potatoes
Freshly made sandwiches, baguettes and salad/fruit pots
Menus
Our 4 weekly menus have been designed specifically for the school and are fully compliant with the Government’s food and nutritional guidelines. We use a nutritional software program called Nutmeg which analyses our menus to ensure that the recommended levels of such things as Iron, Sodium and Fats etc. are met.
Please click on the link below to download our 4 week menu cycle for World Kitchen
Weekly Menus – Summer 2009
Free School Meals
The system for free school meals has remained the same, with each dining room offering a meal deal that covers the Free School Meal amount.
The new Cashless payment system will replace the current process the daily issue of meal tickets – please find below further information on the Cashless system.
Healthy Eating
The health and well being of pupils and staff are our key concern – therefore we will create a healthy eating reward scheme that will promote the benefits of a balanced approach to eating and reward points for choosing the healthier options from our menus.
Marketing
There will be a number of promotions and meal deals throughout each term that will offer great value for money. We will run occasional special theme days and link in to the school’s curriculum, bringing the classroom into the dining room, by producing meals and recipe ideas that have been developed by pupils in their Food Technology projects.
We will publish the calendar of events and our menus via the school’s newsletter, on this web page and on the Aspens website.
Cashless Payment System
We have implemented a new Cashless payment system since April ‘09.
This system uses a ‘top up’ card system, that pupils and staff will use to pay for their food and drink at breakfast, mid morning and lunchtime services.
For further information on the benefits of this system – and for Frequently Asked Questions – please click here.
There will be a number of changes to the service in the next few months and we are very much looking forward to working closely with the School and the pupils in order to provide a catering service that exceeds expectations.
Our web site can be found at www.aspens-services.co.uk
If you wish to email us with any comments or queries, please contact us by emailing info@aspens.co.uk
