School Meals & Menu

Innovate Restaurant Menus

Our catering service is provided by Innovate IFG

Innovate IFG is part of the Impact Food Group, a well-established and experienced school caterer. The service is provided under contract with Harris Federation.

The menu runs on a three-weekly cycle and includes halal and non-halal options.

What’s on the menu? 

Innovate has long been considered the most inventive school caterer. All dishes are prepared every day using quality, fresh and seasonal ingredients that are responsibly sourced. As well as ensuring the food on the plate is healthy, we want our customers to understand the importance of eating the right foods and help them with their food and nutrition journey. Here’s a taste of what’s to come:

A huge selection of 'grab and go' items, all now using our barcode system to help speed up the queues.

A variety of healthy, tasty main meals prepared fresh every day from carefully selected ingredients. The menu will follow a similar weekly pattern so you know what to expect, providing over 35 choices each day in addition to the ever popular chef specials, fortnightly themed events and loyalty schemes.

The Street Vibes range, global street food that tours the world. 

Theme days; Harvest Week, Chinese New Year, British Pie Week, Olympics and Love British Food Fortnight, and many more.

What meal deals are available?

The most popular meal deal is the Blue Dot meal deal Students can choose any 4 items displaying a blue dot sticker. Items include selected rolls, sandwiches, drinks, cakes and tray bakes and more!

The Blue Dot meal deal is also available to students who have an FSM allowance. I have a free school meal allowance.......what can I have?

We want to ensure that all of our customers have access to a healthy nutritious meal and, with this in mind, we ask anyone with an FSM allowance to select any items up to the daily allowance of £2.84.

Your child may be entitled to free school meals. Even if your child does not wish to eat free school meals, but is entitled to them, it's worth applying because for each child entitled to free school meals the Academy could receive funding to help with tuition, resources, coaching and extra assistance, https://www.gov.uk/apply-free-school-meals/croydon to find out if your child is entitled to free school meals. The meal value is £2.84.

However, we ask that this includes a hot main meal, hot wrap, or other nutritious snack plus a dessert & squash. 

Drop us an email

We’d love to hear your thoughts after using our service. Please share your dining experience by emailing us at hello@impactfood.co.uk — your feedback helps us improve and is always appreciated.

ParentPay

The cashless payment system means that the entitlement goes on to the student's account automatically each day and can be topped up with cash if required, payable by either Parent Pay or Pay Point.

Use our school online payment system to make dinner money top-ups or school trip payments quickly and easily. View your child’s balance online or receive SMS texts alerts from our parent communication system.