Catering

The Kitchen

Launched in September 2025, The Kitchen at Toynbee School is our in-house catering service for pupils, staff, and visitors. Our vision is to create a vibrant, sustainable dining experience — from nutritious main meals to convenient “on the go” options — that supports health and wellbeing across our whole community. We are committed to serving high-quality, locally sourced meals that promote health, celebrate variety, and respect the planet. By offering outstanding value for money and ensuring every stakeholder — especially the most vulnerable — enjoys the best meal of their day, we aim to build a welcoming and supportive food culture that fosters community, wellbeing, and a lifelong love of good food.

Food safety and allergens

We are a nut free school - this includes all meals prepared onsite and any food that staff, pupils or visitors bring on the site.

We want to give pupils, parents and schools complete peace of mind that it’s safe to eat in school. We fully comply with the rules and regulations set out in Natasha’s Law on labelling which came into effect on 1 October 2021. If you have a food allergy or intolerance, it is important that pupils inform a member of team before ordering. They will be more than happy to provide you with a full list of the ingredients used in all our dishes allowing you to make an informed decision on what to eat.

Menu

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Got a question?

Please get in touch with our Catering Manager, Mel Parker, catering@toynbee.hants.sch.uk who will be happy to answer any questions over our provision.

The Kitchen is open throughout morning break and lunchtime.

When a pupil joins Toynbee, a canteen account is created for them. Parents and pupils can add to the value of their child's account in the following ways:
 
· By electronic transfer over the internet, using Arbor: Arbor Account Top Up
· By cash using the deposit machines located in the Canteen

The canteen account must be kept in credit at all times and pupils can check their balances easily.

Pupils entitled to Free School Meals will have their daily allowance (£3.40) added to their account after morning break ready for lunchtime. Any unused Free School Meal allowance will be removed from the account as soon as lunchtime is over.

When the canteen is open, pupils choose their meals & snacks and take the items to the till points where they are identified by way of biometric fingerprint recognition technology. The till point then electronically shows the till operator a photo of the pupil as confirmation of identity and the pupil then purchases their meal as long as they have enough money in their account to cover the cost of the items selected.

Parents can:
· Set a daily spending limit for the cafeteria account that can be amended on request. Please note accounts have a default level of £5.00 per day
· Log in to Arbor Parent Portal and see what you son/daughter has purchased each day.
· Notify the caterers of any dietary needs

If you need any further information, please email admin@toynbee.hants.sch.uk