“Students that eat a healthy, well balanced diet are better able to concentrate within class and are more likely to be receptive to learning.”
The school canteen is run by Innovate Services Ltd. Innovate offer a varied menu of good nutritious food that students enjoy in keeping with our Healthy Schools status. The menu rotates every six weeks and provides good value. Snacks, drinks and main meals are available every day.
The canteen is open during morning break and lunch break.
All purchases of food and drink are made via the cashless catering system. Students are issued with a cashless catering card when they join the school. (There is a charge of £5 to replace lost or damaged cards).
Allergies and Dietary requirements
Thamesmead is a nut-free school and the canteen can also accommodate allergy and dietary requirements. Labelling of products is in line with Natasha’s Law – more details are in the flyer below.
Labelling of products in the school canteen – Natasha’s Law
Payments for School Meals/Cashless Catering
Parents can top up their child’s canteen account using the online Tucasi system. Students new to Thamesmead are given a link code to use the Tucasi system when they join Thamesmead. Parents will be asked to given consent for their child’s biometric details to be used with the fingerprint payment system in the canteen. (This is totally secure and more details about the way our data is stored is available on request). Students’ parents who prefer not to give consent for this, can still give their name at the tills instead of paying by fingerprint.
Online payments by credit or debit card for Innovate Services are processed by Cunninghams, and so your bank statement would display ‘Cunninghams’ for payments made for the canteen via Tucasi.
School Menus and meal deals below
Innovate Menu Prices – Sept 24
Innovate Fruit & Bakery Menu Sep24
Mustard Allergen information Sept 2024
Generation Juice – cutting down plastic bottle waste – please see details in the flyer below
A4 Generation Juice Flyer Innovate
Free School Meals
If you think you might be eligible for Free School Meals, please complete this form and we will process your application as soon as we can. Daily credit is added to a student’s canteen account if they are eligible. Any daily allowance is always used before any additional funds that parents may choose to add to their child’s account.
Please send the completed form to info@thamesmead.surrey.sch.uk and we will check eligibility for you.
Eligible parents will receive vouchers from Club 4 via email to book activities for the school holidays. Guide at the link below.
Club4 Parent Guide – Christmas 2024
Local Foodbanks
Surplus to supper – Sunbury Cricket Club TW165PS
Every weekend there is a surplus shop where you can pick up some surplus food in exchange for a small donation
Jubilee Church Shepperton TW179EE
bagsoffood@jubileechurchshepperton.org
St Saviours Church Sunbury TW167TP
community@stsaviourssunbury.org.uk
St John’s Church Walton KT123JQ
info@waltonhersham.foodbank.org.uk
The Beacon Church Chertsey KT169AS
info@runnymede.foodbank.org.uk
Salvation Army Ashford TW153JY
staines@salvationarmy.org.uk
St Peters Church Staines TW197ER
info@mannafoodbank.org.uk
The Pavilion Stanwell TW197ER
info@stanwellfoodbank.org.uk
Further Financial Assistance
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