This year’s national figures for school lunch take up have been published by the School Food Truct and The Local Authority Catering Association this morning – with a 2.1 percentage point increase in primary schools (from 39.3% to 41.4%) and a 0.8 percentage point increase in secondary schools (from 35.0% to 35.9%). Many schools across Sheffield are working hard [...]
The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) is supporting the Sheffield Let’s Change4Life Programme with school growing. Seven schools have been identified to work as Lead RHS Growing Schools and will run workshops and training for nearby schools to attend to find out more about developing a school fruit and vegetable garden. The seven schools selected are: [...]
From September 2010 30 more Sheffield Schools will be recruited to a tailor made Let’s Get Sheffield Cooking Programme. This programme will build on the network of 41 Sheffield Let’s Get Cooking Clubs which run in schools and work with children and parents. The clubs will be run during the school day or as an [...]
“We are using a grant to set up an allotment with the environmental group. This cross curricular activity will enable us to use our own produce in cookery classes and in the new cookery club” The “Let’s Get Cooking Project” has really taken off in our school so thanks for your help with it “Throughout [...]
Tinsley Junior School’s kitchen last cooked a fresh meal on the premises in July 1994 and began receiving a transported daily meal from the neighbouring school from the Autumn term of that year. The footprint of the kitchen didn’t alter over the years and with the exception of a new serving hatch 5 years ago, [...]
Since achieving National healthy Schools Status in 2007 Sheffield Park Academy have gone from strength to strength in promoting healthy lifestyles to it’s pupils. The school was one of the first in the city to join up to the Sheffield Let’s Change4Life Programme and is being supported by the programme to implement a range of [...]
Firshill Primary School started the Healthy Breakfast Challenge in an attempt to get more families walking to school both to improve the health of the school community and to reduce congestion around the school gates. As long as they walk to school, children and parent carers can take up the offer of fresh fruit and cereal at [...]
A programme of support to Schools has recently started through the 4 Sheffield School Sports Partnerships. This has been launched in a number of primary schools and will run right throguh until the end of the academic year. The programme includes working with pupils to find out what activities they would like to do either [...]
Lots of schools across the city are looking at how they can promote healthy lunch boxes to both children and their families. Eating a healthy lunch at school whether it be a hot meal or a lunch box is equally important to help us keep healthy but also to help children to learn and behave [...]
This week I’ve been working on arranging a programme of training for Lunch Time Supervisors who have a vital role in suporting our school children during lunch times. In Sheffield we have hundreds of lunch time staff who work really hard every day to make sure pupils are safe and looked after as well as [...]
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