Catering at JFS

JFS serves a healthy kosher lunch every day. Meal times are enjoyed in a convivial atmosphere. The school runs a cashless catering system. Below we give some guidance for you and your child in regards to financial planning for the catering system.

Lunch

• Your child will need to know what his/her daily spending limit is if you have opted for him/her to have one

• It would be extremely helpful for you to go through the Menu and Price List with your child so s/he has an idea as to how to budget the money available. This will save a great deal of time at the start of term when queues tend to move slowly because students are not used to working out what they can buy. If what they choose for lunch exceeds their daily card limit, they may have to return items from their tray and this can be upsetting

• It is essential that your child tops up his/her card immediately on being informed that this is necessary, so that s/he does not have to borrow money in order to purchase lunch

• If your child arrives late, due to a lunchtime activity, his/her favourite food may not be available but there will be range of other things to choose from, including a hot dish, sandwiches or a jacket potato. This is available until 1.25 pm everyday

• Sandwiches may be pre-ordered and paid for during morning break, ready for collection after the lunchtime activity has finished

• Please encourage your child to be flexible with his/her choice. There are bound to be occasions, for whatever reason, when a child's first choice has run out

Breakfast

• Breakfast is available in the Dining Hall each morning between 7.50 and 8.20 a.m

• Your child may use his/her lunch card or cash to obtain breakfast. Please note that there is no cash option at lunchtimes

Food from Home

Students may not bring any food into school other than fruit. Lunch and drinks are provided by our kosher caterers and drinkable water is available from several outlets in the School.

HEALTHY SCHOOL

Making our students more healthy and active is part of the JFS’s drive for Healthy School Status. We are launching this initiative with an activity week for all students, but especially targeting year 7 students. This will be from the week beginning 21 January 2008, and will be available for the rest of the school year.

New equipment and storage facilities are arriving at JFS and will be placed in two play areas of the school. The idea is that students will come to one of these areas to borrow some equipment and use it during lunch break, instead of sitting inside the building.

Forty sixth form students are being trained to help the other students in the school to use the equipment effectively and to become more physically active during free time, these sixth formers will be easily spotted as they will be wearing colourful T shirts.

The equipment will be divided into two types:

One section will be on the upper hard court near the dining hall and will be for all types of ball games.

The other section will be stored by the amphitheatre and will contain things like large chess sets and soft games. All students are encouraged to bring their progress record to borrow the equipment and use it with their friends and enjoy a more active lunch break. Year 7 students will record their activity each week with their tutor, as part of the monitoring process. Staff will also have an opportunity to become more physically active with a range of sports activities for before and after school being offered.