Healthy Eating Case Studies
Beaufort Community Primary School
Lunchtime
The catering staff and lunchtime supervisors have been particularly supportive and pro-active in improving lunchtimes for children. There is a popular Salad Bar. There are many ways to encourage good behaviour with lunchtime buddies, sunshine badges, award slips and display boards has been well organised and enthusiastically taken up. The lunchtime staff are appreciative of the support given to their initiatives by the links with assembly times when recognition and praise is given for good lunchtime behaviour. The lunchtime staff initiate, organise and supervise a variety of play activities including a ‘chill and spill’ area in the playground for children wanting a quiet area. Many children commented that they appreciated the many play choices available to them.
Danetree Junior School
Lunchtime Committee
A representative from each year group has been voted onto the lunchtime committee. Pupils take the top two issues from their year group back to the committee. Pupils felt their role so far had been both interesting and surprising! They hoped to make changes to the following (amongst others): increase the choice of sandwich fillings; increase the choice of hot foods e.g. curries; allow pupils who bring packed lunches to occasionally sit with their friends who have school dinners; have theme weeks e.g. Indian, Chinese, American; have more fruit. The dining room is shortly to be painted and the pupil representatives had been consulted about the choice of colour. The pupils had some innovative ideas about lunch times, such as giving some of the older pupils opportunities to take on a waitressing role to help the lunchtime supervisors.
Holland Junior School
Fruit Club
A very popular Fruit Club is now in place a break times. Anything between 35-68 pupils use it each day. Pupils pay £1.
St Dunstan's Catholic Primary School
Cool Milk!
St Dunstan's school has taken up 'Cool Milk', and it has proved really popular with the pupils. All admin is done centrally by Cool Milk staff. More details can be found at http://www.coolmilk.com/.
Woking High School
Swipe cards
Pupils use swipe cards for buying food from the canteen, no money is exchanged. Parents are able to have print outs of what types of foods their children are buying and parents can also put blocks on certain foods.
Breakfast club
Pupils are able to have breakfast at school and the school provides morning papers; pupils are able to watch morning news on the large TV screen.
Woodlands School
Visual Menu
One of the canteen staff members was very enthusiastic about the newly-developed visual menu and library of photos of foods. This is displayed on a daily basis according to the menu for the day. Pupils have responded well to the system, often approaching the canteen staff to go through the visual menu with them. It has helped them to develop their comprehension and literacy skills.