News Archive
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
Small school success story: Crich Junior School in rural Derbyshire
Crich Junior School, in rural Derbyshire, we have just 50 pupils and – because of tight planning regulations for its Victorian building – no kitchen. Instead, we get lunches delivered every day from a primary school in Fritchley, a...
19 Mar 2013
Small school success story: Cambo First School in rural Northumberland
Our school – Cambo First School – is a tiny primary school near Morpeth in Northumberland which educates village children between the ages of 4 and 9. The school has only two classes, of mixed ages, with a total...
19 Mar 2013
Persuading children to eat their greens at Gayhurst Community School
At Gayhurst Community School in East London we use a “Captain’s Table” as an incentive for eating and behaving well in the dining hall. Many primary schools use this strategy. A table is laid every other week in our...
19 Mar 2013