School catering
The school’s kitchen is run by Saned: a registered Catalan company with over 25 years of experience in school catering, www.saned.net They aim to ensure that the school’s students follow a balanced, varied, and healthy diet, appropriate for different ages, with high-quality, local, and sustainably produced ingredients. Children learn to eat correctly and acquire hygiene habits related to eating.
Menus
The Kitchen
The school’s menus promote healthy eating, as they are balanced, varied, appealing, and adapted to the students’ characteristics and needs.
Saned prioritises seasonal, local, and sustainably produced ingredients. We collaborate with the best partners available, such as Ametller Origen, Veritas, Viñals Gourmet, and Fidemus.
All meals are prepared in the school’s kitchen by the team, which, with Saned’s support, plans, prepares, and serves food across the different dining areas where students eat. We follow the recommended food group frequencies in school menu planning: first courses include rice, pasta, legumes, vegetables, and greens; second courses consist of meat, fish, and egg; and fresh fruit is served daily for dessert, with optional yoghurt once a week. Once or twice a month, we offer a menu with plant-based protein. Second-course cooking methods include baking, stewing, roasting, grilling, and frying, with fried options only served once a week.
When preparing and distributing food, we carefully consider dietary modifications needed for food allergies, intolerances, and religious beliefs, as well as any health conditions that may require dietary adjustments.
Lunch schedules
Lunch schedules, midday activities, and rest time for the younger children are carefully considered and organised. When students finish morning classes, they either go directly to the dining hall for lunch or to the playground until it’s their turn in the dining hall, depending on the arrangement of dining spaces.
Lunch lasts approximately one hour, allowing time to wash hands, pass through self-service or be seated at the table, eat calmly, and brush their teeth. Recess takes place in the various school playgrounds, where students engage in free play, though organised activities, games, and tournaments which are periodically held.
During this time, students are supervised by school teachers and monitors.
What else do we do at midday?
Besides daily meals, traditional and seasonal foods are celebrated throughout the year, such as Christmas lunch, crema catalana on St. Joseph’s Day, and a festive meal on St. George’s Day.
Special meals are also organised, with students involved in decorating the dining hall: . Special meals by year group, if a curricular theme is linked to food in some way; the kitchen team gladly participates, and students help decorate the dining area.
- We also have the most Voted Menu, where students across the school vote to choose the first course, main, and dessert. .
- “Eating Well,” an activity for Infant Year 3 students in which they learn to use cutlery properly to peel fruit and observe good table manners.
- In the final session, two pairs of parents from the group are invited to a classroom lunch to see what the children have learned.
