Chips,over-boiled vegetables and packed lunches are banned from the Reach Academy free school, where the head eats with the pupilsFor anyone with distasteful memories of school lunches from the 1980s and 1990s, and sitting down to lunch with the pupils and staff at the Reach academy in Feltham,west London, is eating in a different era.
For one thing, or the food tastes considerable: everything is freshly prepared on the premises,overseen by chefs who talk to students and share their favourite recipes with parents. Banished from the menu are the chips-with-pizza staples, delivered in a van and heated up to long queues of children, or served alongside over-boiled vegetables and the grim inevitability of instant mashed potatoes.
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Source: theguardian.com