Fuelling Young Minds
At Chartwells, we create lifelong memorable moments at 1,800 schools nationwide. We're committed to making nutritious, delicious food available to every pupil, and our menus are created to ensure healthy bodies and minds.
As leading primary school caterers, we know how important it is to get children excited about food whilst educating and encouraging them to develop positive relationships with it. Our menus and concepts make it fun for pupils, with multi-sensory themed days throughout the year that encourage pupils to try something new.
Providing exceptional learning experiences
Our dedicated team of nutritionists and primary school food ambassadors drive key initiatives and deliver fun, interactive activities, raising school meal uptake in the process.
Every year, we deliver around 50,000 fun, educational sessions as part of our award-winning ‘Beyond The Chartwells Kitchen’ programme. Meanwhile, through our Super Yummy Kitchen initiative, we encourage pupils and parents to bring our recipes to life at home!
We also work directly with Chef Allegra McEvedy, known for her cookery work on CBBC's Step Up To The Plate and Junior Bake Off, who creates her own range of exciting new dishes exclusively for our primary schools. Read more about our food education for young minds:
Medical diets
We understand the anxiety that can come from managing medical diets. That's why we have a stringent Medical Diet Policy in place, with our primary objectives being to keep pupils safe and ensure they can enjoy school meals with their friends.
Hear from one of our Chartwells Schools parents about the medical diets process and how her son enjoys our delicious school meals daily, despite handling multiple allergies.
Find out more about our Medical Diet policy below:
Spotlight Sessions
At Chartwells, we’re redefining the way young minds learn about food and wellness.
Chartwells' Spotlight Sessions are a new digital resource created specifically for KS2 teachers, designed to enhance nutrition and food education in schools. Each term, a new Spotlight Session will focus on a different engaging and thought-provoking topic.
Our food and menus
We connect with parents and children nationwide to discover exactly what pupils love. We then use that research and feedback to create our seasonal, healthy menus and activities.
We keep our values-driven menus exciting and up to date with changing needs and tastes, as well as sustainably sourced and highly nutritious ingredients.
Talk to our business development team
Whether you’d like to discuss how our school and education catering experiences could inspire your pupils or students, or you’re interested in partnering with our brilliant teams across the UK, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. We’re always happy to help! For all other enquiries, please visit our other enquiries page.
Email: enquiries@chartwells.co.uk
Phone: 0800 917 6818