More fruit was on the menu at Hayfield School in Upton recently after the school joined forces with its United Co-op store on Manor Drive.
Townfield Primary and Metro’s Catering’s collaborative approach to school dinners has brought calm and composure to lunchtime sessions.
St John Plessington Catholic College in Bebington have taken extra steps this year with exam preparation and provided students taking mock exams with a bottle of water and a banana to ensure they're well fed and watered!
All primary schools in England, Scotland and Wales, working towards KS1 and KS2, are eligible to take part in the Grow Your Own Potatoes project. Schools register by visiting www.potatoesforschools.org.uk or calling 01865 782276 before 8th February 2008. It’s completely free for schools to take part and they will receive a growing kit containing two varieties of seed potatoes, an interactive height chart to track the progress of their plants and a £5 voucher towards the cost of compost and a container. Planting starts in March and there will be a first prize of a digital camera for the school that grows the heaviest weight of potatoes, as well as regional runners-up prizes of gardening vouchers when the crops are harvested in June!
The Million Meals campaign will focus on helping schools make the changes that we know will make a difference to the take-up of school meals by pupils. Schools will be asked to sign up to the campaign by pledging to support four key principles that will help increase the numbers eating school food and deliver all the associated benefits to the pupils and the school.
Hungry for Health
A Performance Workshop for Key Stage 2
Children watch as Jenny - who hates fruit and vegetables - is taken by the Fairy Codmother, meeting a host of crazy characters who introduce her to the world of healthy eating, and what a fun place that can be!
The messages of the performance are then reinforced in a fun and interactive workshop. Children can play games, answer questions and learn songs, which all help to keep the healthy lifestyle message at the forefront of their minds.
The whole session is a timesaving and affordable way of helping the children in your school to become Hungry for Health.
Small grants for Year of Food and Farming Projects
Last week the School’s Challenge Fund launched in the North West and email was sent around to all schools registered on the megamap inviting them to submit applications for up to £150 to help support then in taking part in a schools cooking, growing or farming activity. For many this will mean the difference between being able to take their class out to visit a local farm and see what really happens on farms. For more information and an application form place email louise.hare@gonw.gsi.gov.uk or call 0151 224 2943.