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Students may bring a packed lunch but all students whether having a school meal or not are required to stay on site during the lunch break.
While the new Academy building is being constructed students will benefit from improved cafeteria facilities and good menu choices for lunch each day.
A new cashless system for school meals is being introduced. Each student and member of staff using the system will be allocated an account, much like a bank account. This information is held on a secure server and stores details of individual cash balances, records cash spent and cash received, records where money has been spent, on what food and the exact date and time the money was spent. Parents can pay in advance by cheque or cash for meals taken by their children.
It is a biometric system involving finger scanning.
Each scan is converted into a number and stored on the system against that individual. Once the finger scan has been taken it is automatically converted to numeric form. No register of fingerprints is kept and it is impossible to reconstitute a fingerprint from the numeric reference.
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