On the 15th June ISS Education took part in a very special birthday picnic. School Food Matters (SFM), invited children from 50 London schools to come to Westminster for a celebration in the beautiful College Gardens at Westminster Abbey. SFM were celebrating their 10th birthday, and as luck would have it ISS Education turned ten […]
Colin Harvey joined ISS Education in November 2016 to head up our Food Development Team. Originally from Malta, Colin now lives in Essex with his wife Dawn with whom he has three children. Having started his career working in hospitality & chef management, he made the move to education catering in 1994. We caught up with him to find […]
At ISS Education we care about animal welfare. For this reason, we only use free-range eggs in our homemade dishes we serve in schools. We have even been granted the Good Egg award by Compassion in World Farming, for our commitment to only use eggs from cage free hens. Thanks to places like LJ Fairburn […]
This year marked our 5th annual ISS Education Chef of the Year competition. On 26th May, sixteen talented school and college cooks from across ISS Education gathered at the new Chefmanship Centre inside the Unilever HQ, Leatherhead to compete for the title. Contestants had to prepare a two-course menu. These had to include chicken or […]
On the 25th May we held a special Food Education Event Day (FEED) in Bracknell Forest. The ISS Education catering team were there to welcome pupils and teachers from seven local schools to The Education Centre at Easthampstead Park, where the event took place. Children aged from 5 to 11 came along to learn about […]
We hope you enjoyed our Green Fingers Growathon week! To support schools in educating pupils on where their food comes from, this spring we provided each school we provide lunches at with a gardening kit! These included the following : A 40 cell propagator Flower pots (10 small, 3 larger) Compost Seeds […]
In the run up to Christmas we teamed up with celebrity chef, Mark Sargeant, for a mini tour of Devon, visiting three schools in the county to spread the word about great healthy food and to get children excited about cooking (with a sprinkling of Christmas treats along the way!) Mark and ISS Education’s first stop […]
From November, all of the apples we use in our schools, colleges and universities will be both British and organic! They are grown by father and son John and Mike Thorn who started Rudford Farm from scratch, planting 17 hectares of disease resistant apple varieties such as Santana, Red Topaz and Modi. They produce around 200 m tons […]
Universal Infant Free School Meals 2014 has seen some significant changes in the world of school food. One of these changes was implemented by the government, from September of the same year, every pupil in reception, year 1 and 2 would be eligible for free school meals. Good food and good food culture has been shown to lead not […]
Green Fingers 2014 – I’m a vegetable, grow me out of here! Much to our delight, several schools joined us for our annual gardening promotion week during the spring! I’m a vegetable, grow me out of here! was created to try to encourage pupils to take an interest in the food they eat and its […]
