Mealtimes - our Menus

Catering at Bournemouth Collegiate School, as across the whole UCST Group, is provided by the Brookwood Partnership. The Senior School (which caters for boarders) has its own fully-equipped kitchens where all meals are freshly prepared each day. Boarders have breakfast, lunch, tea and supper – and have access to their own kitchens in the boarding house if they wish to prepare snacks or drinks. Pupils eat in our very attractive dining room alongside the school’s formal gardens, with lunch being provided in two sittings both of which use cafeteria-style service. There are always hot, cold and vegetarian options and the kitchen operates on a nut-free basis. The staff eat with the children from the same menus.

 

CLICK HERE for typical Boarders' lunch menus.

CLICK HERE for typical Boarders' supper menus.

 

Our Caterers – the Brookwood Partnership

The Brookwood Partnership provides catering across the whole of the UCST Group of schools. They are passionate about the feeding of children and consider it their responsibility to encourage pupils towards a balanced diet by creating attractive, nutritious menus and informing them how to eat healthily. The approach focuses on educating, encouraging and promoting a healthy diet featuring local produce for each individual child's future health and well being, and Brookwood representatives promote this message through school assemblies from time to time. 

Brookwood Managers and Chefs are trained using their own specific training course, offering healthy eating with a balance between current eating trends, good nutrition and fresh home-cooked food. To achieve this, they use Brookwood’s own Food Standards Manual and actively encourage the promotion of the “Eating for Life” campaign, which includes a dedication to cooking without salt, promoting fresh vegetables and helping ensure pupils eat their “Five a Day”. 

At Bournemouth Collegiate School our menus are created to ensure that this dedication to food and pupils is achieved.  We offer an extensive salad bar on both sites, with fresh fruit and home-baked bread available daily. Our menus are continually reviewed to ensure that they provide food the pupils enjoy whilst ensuring a variety of dishes, especially for our boarders.

 

Help Yourself

At BCS we celebrate the diversity of our school community by sharing food preferences and traditions from around the world. Chinese New Year was celebrated with a special menu for the whole school, though the Half Term holiday meant that this had to be served earlier than the official 14th February date.

 

 

 

 

 

Boarders also get the opportunity to prepare their own snacks and meals, both in their own kitchens, in the Food Technology classes as part of the normal school curriculum, or in the cookery clubs after school.