Meals

All meals in House are compulsory. We always take a register and we also use this as a roll call. Please be prompt to mealtimes. If you have any specific dietary requirements your parents will be required to fill out a form ahead of your arrival so that appropriate catering can be put in place with our Chef manager.

Mealtimes are as follows: Breakfast Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 7.15am Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday: 7.30am Sunday: 9.30am (if there is a morning service), 11.00am Brunch (if there is an evening service)

Lunch Monday – Friday 1.00pm Saturday from 11.00am (depending on matches) Sunday 1.00pm (unless there has been Brunch at 11.00am, in which case there is no lunch) Supper Monday – Friday 6.10pm Saturday 6.00pm Sunday 6.00pm (unless there is an Evening Abbey Service, in which case it is at 5.30pm)

When arriving for mealtimes, please queue up in the corridor until the member of staff on duty says you can come through. You must wear something on your feet! At breakfast and supper, girls tend to sit with their year groups. On Mondays you will sit with your ‘families’ for lunch.

From Tuesday to Friday at lunchtime there is a seating plan. You will either sit with your Tutor or will be allocated a mixed-age table. At lunchtime, you must wait until everyone on your table has finished eating their main course. The youngest girls on the table then clear the plates before the eldest serve pudding, which will already be on the table. All girls must wait until everyone has finished eating before the table

is then cleared. Please wait quietly until everyone has finished. The Chaplaincy Prefect will then say Grace. Please remember table manners in the dining room. For example, no elbows on tables, don’t talk with your mouth full etc. If your Tutor is in for lunch, then remember to be good hostesses. Make sure your Tutor is comfortable and has a glass of water poured. Please chat to them – they have made an effort to come and spend lunch with you. The dining room is a mobile-free zone. Please do not take your phone out (in the dining room) –expect it to be confiscated if it is seen!

Takeaways You may order takeaways on Saturday evenings. However, you need to get permission from the member of staff on duty beforehand. You must also wait downstairs so that you can watch for the delivery driver and your takeaway must arrive before 9.00pm.