The Catering Team at ST AMBROSE COLLEGE is always striving to provide nutritious, high quality food for our students.
We operate a three-week menu cycle offering a wide range of popular, healthy food items ranging from salads, sandwiches pasta and wraps to traditional roast dinners.
Students can access food from the Main Servery, the Food-to-Go hatch and the All-Day Café before, during and after-school. There are also 'daily specials' and regular themed events to add variety to our menus.
All meals are all served in the Central Atrium on the ground floor.
Payment for food
Payment for food is made using our cashless catering system.
To minimise the cash brought to school we advise parents to top up their son's catering balance via Parent Pay.
Menus and price lists
Sample menus:
Free school meals
For further information, please visit the Pupil Premium page on our website.
Free School Meal students receive a daily credit on their cashless catering account. This allows them sufficient credit to purchase meals and snacks up to this value at either break or lunchtime. As it is possible that your child will spend over their free school meal allowance, we strongly advise that you make a payment into your child’s cashless catering account to cover any overspend. At the end of each day, if any of the free school meal allowance has not been spent, the remainder of that allowance will be removed from the cashless catering account. Your child is not entitled to carry over any underspend to the following day.
Allergens
Food Allergies and Nut-Aware Policy
At St Ambrose College, we take food allergies seriously and are committed to providing as much allergen information as possible to staff, students, and parents/carers.
Nut-Aware School
St Ambrose College is a nut-aware school. While we cannot guarantee that the College site is completely free from nuts or nut products, we work to minimise the risk to those with nut allergies and ask for the support of our whole school community.
We respectfully ask parents/carers not to send students into school with foods containing nuts, including when travelling to and from the College on school buses. By working together, we can help create a safer environment for everyone.
Our catering department provides a wide range of food across the College. The department maintains comprehensive allergen information for all items sold on site. If a student is concerned about the ingredients or allergens in any food item, they should speak to a member of the catering team, who will check the allergen information before they make a purchase.
For pre-packaged items supplied by external manufacturers, allergen information is also available at the point of sale. This information is reviewed and updated regularly.
Although every reasonable precaution is taken to reduce the risk of allergen exposure, we cannot guarantee that foods brought into school by students or visitors, or products supplied by third-party manufacturers, are free from traces of nuts. Students with severe allergies are encouraged to remain vigilant and to seek advice from catering staff if they have any concerns.
Allergens list HERE.
A copy is also stored in the student shared area in a catering folder.
Students with Food Allergies
We ask that parents/carers ensure that allergy information is kept up to date. If your son has an allergy or develops an allergy, please make sure they check the allergen list above to confirm which foods are safe for them to eat.
Please refer to the Allergy Safety Policy here: Saint Ambrose College - Policies and Procedures
If your son has a food allergy, please ensure you have completed the Trafford Health Questionnaire and returned it to the School Office. In addition, please complete the form below:
Please contact the School Office if there are any changes to your son's allergies/dietary needs.