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Getting parents involved: Barons Court Primary School

Getting parents involved has huge benefits for all schools, especially small ones like Barons Court Primary school in Southend. We have only 186 pupils. Until two years ago, we had no food service of our own, meals were delivered...

19 Jan 2013

Farming in schools: Phoenix High School

Phoenix High School is very far from a rural idyll. Located right in the middle of the socially deprived White City Estate in west London, with the six lane A40 roaring in the background, our school is perhaps the...

19 Jan 2013

Demanding more from existing caterers: Ashley Church of England Primary School

The food at our school, Ashley C of E Primary School in Walton-on-Thames, used to be pretty uninspiring. It was brought in pre-cooked by council caterers and dished up into plastic flight trays at a small serving hatch. Unsurprisingly,...

19 Jan 2013

Cutting queues: Glasgow secondary schools

In August 2009, seven secondary schools in Glasgow decided to keep all their ‘S1’ (year 7) children on site during the lunch break, in a bid to encourage them to make healthier choices. This experiment – dubbed “The Big...

19 Jan 2013

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