BACA restaurant
Breakfast Club
BACA’s Breakfast Club runs from 7.30-8.10am before each school day. It is open to ALL BACA students and provides a free breakfast in thanks to our partnership with Magic Breakfast. Students are offered their choice of cereals, bagels with various toppings and juice or milk.
Magic Breakfast is a UK charity that provides schools with free healthy breakfasts. Together with a strong network of corporate partners, individuals and schools they ensure that over 16,000 children in 450 schools have the best possible start to each school day. BACA is the first secondary school in the South East involved in Magic Breakfast and we are proud to have partnered with this fantastic charity that enables us to offer free breakfast for all of our students.
Through the breakfast club students are offered the best possible start to each day. Eating breakfast improves concentration and learning, and ultimately helps students to achieve great results.
Find out more about Breakfast Club.
BACA CATERING
Our latest Lunch Menu can be viewed here.
We are excited to introduce Aspens as our new catering partner, bringing fresh, nutritious, and delicious meals to our school community. Aspens is dedicated to providing a balanced and healthy menu, which adheres to school-based standards and caters to all dietary needs, ensuring that every student is properly fuelled and hydrated for learning.
Below, you'll find more information from Aspens about their menu offerings, their commitment to quality, and how they aim to make mealtimes an ejoyable and social experience.
We are always in the mood for good food!
We only work in the education sector so we know what our customers want. Mixing this knowledge with an understanding of what’s hot in the food world sparks creativity and excitement in our chefs. Our kitchens provide delicious home cooked food each day and cater for individual dietary requirements.
Streateries is our secondary meal offer where everyday has a theme. Featuring Global cuisines, customised offers and food on the move, we are bang up to date with the current trends whilst still ensuring that there is a place on the menu for the comfort of our familiar school dining hall favourites. Each day the menu includes as standard a street food dish, a hand held version, vegetarian/vegan choices along with a selection of sides.
Our Deli Kitchen brand is for the popular standard Aspens hot and cold offers. This can range from Authentic Italian pizza and pasta, Hacienda Mexicana’s burritos, rice pots and sides and Voulez Poulet’s house rub chicken, dogs and sides through to our range of healthy sandwiches, paninis, wraps, jacket potatoes, salads, fruit and cold dessert pots.
Special Diets
Special diets are an integral part of our catering provision, whether as a result of an ethical or religious belief or a food intolerance or allergy. To register any special diets as a requirement please complete and return the special diets form to the school as soon as possible.
Our Planet
We work closely with our clients and suppliers to be as environmentally friendly as we can. By making lots of small changes, we can make a big difference. We care about the future and continue to focus on responsible sourcing, using seasonal produce, increasing our focus on plant-based recipes, making our menus more sustainable, keeping waste to a minimum and reusing and recycling to reduce the impact we have.
BIOMETRIC
An update to our biometric trust e-cashless system supplied by Civica has been installed; we require the consent of at least one parent in order that the biometric information of your child can be processed. Please be assured that this information remains within the school and that the biometric information taken is an algorithm and not an actual fingerprint.
If you choose not to have your child registered, the school will provide alternative methods of identification such as a Smart Card. The preference of the school is to use biometrics as this is more secure and faster than any other method of identification and we appreciate your co-operation with regards to this matter.
All students that do not use Biometric will be issued with a plastic card when they start at the Academy, which can be used to pay for food in the school canteen. The Biometric or cards can either be topped up with money via the Squid online system or by using the cash loading machine which is located in the Atrium next to the lift. It is the student’s responsibility to keep their card safe, replacement cards can be issued at the cost of £5 for each replacement. The canteen does not take any cash to pay for food so it is important that students remember to bring their cards daily to school.
If you have not given consent and wish to do so, please contact the school office at office@baca-uk.co.uk