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Bring home the harvest for British Food Fortnight
British Food Fortnight is inviting all schools in the UK to enter a harvest lottery to win their place in Westminster Abbey this October...
16 May 2013
John Vincent’s blog on Mumsnet
John Vincent writes about his experience of school food in the 70s and 80s and reflects on how much better school food is today: I was at school in the 1970s and 1980s. At Chase Side Primary School in...
30 Apr 2013
Review your school food for the Sunday Times
School meals have come a long way from the days of soggy chips, turkey twizzlers and deep-fried hamburgers. School dinners are now generally pretty good – though there are still some where it could be improved. The Sunday Times...
30 Apr 2013
Annabel Karmel joins LACA, and The School Food Plan to launch small school pilot
The government’s school food advisers have enlisted children’s food expert Annabel Karmel MBE, to help develop a food programme that will enable small schools...
24 Apr 2013
Ashton Vale Primary School visit Fernhill Farm
As part of Ashton Vale Primary School’s Food For Life project the school has been making strong links with Fernhill Farm on the Mendip...
11 Apr 2013
London schools help shape plan for better school food
Teachers, parents and school cooks from across London are to join forces to help shape the future of school food in England. On Monday 25 March, Grey Coat Hospital School in Westminster will host the last of seven school...
25 Mar 2013
Using food to bridge the achievement gap: Greenfields Community School
Nottingham is Britain’s poorest city. Half a mile from the city centre, surrounded by housing estates beset by social problems, is Greenfields Community School. Some 60% of our pupils are eligible for free school meals. 80% come from an...
19 Mar 2013
Teachers eating with children: the Reach Academy in Feltham
Here at Reach Academy in Feltham, south west London, we believe that pupils have a good attitude to food because their teachers eat with them. The children sit at long tables, family style, with teachers scattered among them. Before...
19 Mar 2013
Taking the catering in house: Woodham Academy
Lunches at our school – Woodham Academy – a 760-strong secondary school in County Durham – used to be a sorry affair. The food (provided by a private caterer) wasn’t cooked, so much as reconstituted. Everything we served was...
19 Mar 2013
Small school success story: Mickley First School in rural Northumberland
Mickley First School in rural Northumberland is a small primary school. We have 63 children with a nursery class of up to 24. The school had a catering contract with the local authority until I arrived 2½ years ago....
19 Mar 2013
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