Catering

St Bede's operates a cashless system for students buying food and drink at school.  Students access their canteen accounts via fingerprint recognition at the tills.  Accounts can be checked and topped up by parents/carers using their Wisepay account. To access Wisepay, please click on the following LINK, or use the app. For more information about Wisepay, please follow the link to our Finance and Wisepay page, here.

Students can spend up to £6.00 per day on canteen food. Most students opt to use the canteen at break and lunchtime so ensuring students are left with funds for the main meal at lunchtime is the best way forward!

f you would like to increase or decrease the amount your child can spend, please email finance@stbedes.cambs.sch.uk.

Please note; We will send out reminders when accounts have low balances but would urge you to routinely check your child's balance on WisePay to ensure your child has sufficient funds if they wish to purchase food from the canteen. St Bede's reserves the right to lock any accounts which are regularly overdrawn.

Change of Catering Provision – September 2025

We are pleased to announce that from September 2025, our catering services will be provided by Innovate.

We would like to extend our sincere thanks to Pabulum for their service over the past six years.

Innovate brings a strong track record of success in other Cambridgeshire schools, and we are excited to welcome them to St Bede’s. They will be working closely with our current catering team to deliver an exciting new food offering that we hope will be well received by all.

Further details, including sample menus and additional information, can be seen, below:

Key Information:

Payments

School meals will continue to be paid for via Wisepay. Please ensure your account is topped up ahead of the new term.

Free School Meals (FSM)

The daily spending allowance for free school meals will be up to the value £2.75 from 1 September 2025, which equates to the price of the main meal deal. The limit is refreshed daily.

From September 2026, new eligibility criteria comes into effect which will increase the number of households eligible for FSM. Please follow this LINK for more information.

You may be eligible, this year:

We look forward to this new chapter in our school catering and warmly welcome Innovate to our community.

WEEKLY MENUS (the autumn term begins with menu 2):