EB top ten: outstanding school catering
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Lowerplace Primary School, Rochdale
The catering team at Lowerplace works hard to produce a varied, exciting and delicious school menu. All meal choices are healthy – the school meal menu includes a choice of two hot meals each day, as well as freshly prepared sandwiches and jacket potatoes with a variety of fillings. During themed meals and special weeks to celebrate festivals and sporting events, the catering team adapts the menu to suit. The catering team were presented the Excellence Certificate from the Greater Manchester Healthier Catering Award earlier this year and has a Food Hygiene rating of 5.
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