Her Mind, Body, and Spirit

Introducing Chartwells, and our Revitalised Boarding and Retail Food Offering!

The Trust Board announced our 2022-2032 strategic vision and core principles last year, and developing Her Mind, Body, and Spirit is one of these core principles.

Nurturing a student with modern, healthy, and nourishing food while she is at school, is an important part of caring for her wellbeing, supporting her to be happy and to learn at her best.

With that in mind, our management team recently reviewed our catering offering, and, earlier this year, Principal, Justine Mahon, announced that we have appointed leading company, Chartwells, to provide all our catering requirements across the College, including for our Boarding House, Tuckshop, Atrium Café, and functions and events.

Chartwells is a premium catering brand that is well known across both New Zealand and Australia.

While Chartwells provides the catering to a number of boarding schools in New Zealand, St Cuthbert’s will be the only school across Australasia to include its retail Tuck Shop and Atrium Café, in this premium food offering to our students.

The Chartwells’ menu has been developed by its head chef and former MasterChef winner, Brett McGregor, and is an exciting new offering for our students, staff, and parents.

The new food offering also included a renovation of our Tuckshop and Atrium Café, which have been modernised, to reflect a more delicatessen look (Café) and a market focus for the Tuckshop. The spaces are fresh and vibrant, offering wholesome, on-trend food, and outstanding service to our community.

There is now a separate Mojo Coffee cart in the Atrium (in blush pink of course!), with a dedicated barista, complete with sustainable coffee cups available to purchase. Using these keeper cups supports us with our CarbonZero 2030 goals; purchasers are contributing to planting a native tree through the ‘Trees that Count’ sustainability initiative – roughly every 37 hot beverages purchased at The Atrium Café using a reusable cup, plants one Native Tree & removes 0.63 tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere.

The food offering is really exciting, with girls able to choose from a range of delicious salads, sandwiches, readymade meals, chia pots, sushi, vegan options, and more. The food offering will be regularly refreshed with seasonal changes, and students will be able to provide feedback.

We encourage our parents and alumni to visit the Atrium after drop-off in the morning, with coffee available from 7.30am each weekday. All the food packaging is sustainable, including the bespoke Black Watch Tartan wrapping you will see on many of the items in the Atrium Café!

Refreshing our Historic Violet Wood Dining Hall

As part of Chartwell’s commitment to St Cuthbert’s, over the summer break, the interior of our historic Violet Wood Dining Hall was refurbished, with beautiful new stained flooring, and a totally new front of house modern servery and tables for our students. The renovated space is really stunning and inviting, while still keeping the important historic look and feel of the building. The addition of the new smoothie bar is proving to be popular with our boarding students!

The innovative, and delicious boarding menu, which will operate on a four-week cycle, is really enhancing our students’ boarding experience.