Cashless Catering
Upper Shirley High operates a Cashless Catering System
which has the following key benefits:
- Increased
speed of service, resulting in reduced queuing times,
- Facility for parents to pay on-line via the My Child at School App and view what their child has consumed at school,
- Reporting
facilities help decrease wastage and improve the overall efficiency of the
meal service,
- On a
daily basis, the system automatically allocates funds to the catering
accounts of those students on free school meals; students with free meal
entitlements remain anonymous.
Cashless Catering means that students and staff cannot use
cash to purchase snacks, drinks, or meals from the school canteen. No cash can
be accepted at our catering terminals, and all food is paid for by account.
Purchases of food and drink are deducted from catering
accounts in real time. The system automatically imposes a daily ‘spend limit’
of £6 for every student. This can be changed by written request to the school's
Finance Office: finance@ushschool.org.
Every student is allocated an individual catering account
and parents can deposit funds into their child’s account through our online
payment system. Alternatively, for those parents who do not have online access,
students can use one of the two 'top-up' machines located in the school foyer. Please
note, coins are not accepted.
The system uses three methods of student identification:
biometric finger scan, PIN number and student photo. We recommend that students
use the biometric system as it is the most secure method of identification.
Students can only be registered for the biometric system once we have received
written consent from parents; please see the ‘opt in’ form.
For more information, please contact the school's Finance
Office: finance@ushschool.org.