Windsor has a commitment to providing quality catering services for our pupils and staff in both the main school and the sixth form centre. We provide wholesome, healthy and enjoyable meals at a competitive price. We recently installed a new servery and completely refurbished and modernised the dining area and we now also have a “cashless catering system.”

The Cashless Biometric System

The cashless catering system uses Biometric allowing us to deliver a more efficient and faster service.

Some of the benefits of this system include;

• 1. A more convenient way to pay for school meals – ie no more looking for change every morning.
• 2. By pre-paying direct to the school you know your child will be eating a wholesome healthy balanced meal in school, rather than spending their “dinner money” on sweets and crisps at local shops on their way to and from school.
• 3. Alleviating many of the associated problems with the use of cash in schools.
• 4. Queuing times are reduced through increased speed of service
• 5. Automatic free meal allocation – with these pupils remaining anonymous.
• 6. Pupils having control of their own catering accounts, and using the system teaches important life skills.
• 7. Enable the school to provide you as parents with information about what your son/daughter has spent their dinner money on.

Click here for information on how parents and pupils can use the cashless system.

The system uses an image of the fingerprint to create a mathematical identifier and then the fingerprint is disregarded. Only the number identifier remains in the system which cannot be reinterpreted back into a fingerprint. Click here for further information about how the system operates including answers to some frequently asked questions about biometric systems.