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Whole School Approach to increasing school meal take-up in East London Secondary Schools Jillian Pitt MSc Nutrition RNutr Food Matters Live 19.11.2015

What is ‘Whole School Approach’?

• Establish SNAG/School Council

• Support a Food Policy Action Plan

• Consult with parents/staff and pupils

• Work with cooks and caterers

• Consult with Heads and Senior Management

The School Food Plan

The School Food Plan reported on the state of school meals nationally in July 2013 and provided a set of actions for government, heads and Local Authorities.

5% Increase

Whole School Approach

School Food Standards

• Mandatory Standards apply to ALL schools from January 2015

• Applies across the whole school day

• Backed by School Food Experts

• Designed to help school chefs/cooks use their creative skills

Challenges to increasing school meal take up

• School Food not seen as a priority

• Secondary schools more difficult to engage with than primaries

• Parent/carer school presence low

• Lack of space in dining halls

• Busy schools – focussed on Ofsted inspections and academic attainment

The Task Ahead…

Child Health Profile of Waltham Forest

•Above national average for obese Yr 6 children Over 14,000 children under 16 years living in poverty

•6th most deprived London Borough out of 33

•FSM eligibility higher than national average

•Ref source: Public Health England Child Health Profiles June 2015

Enrolled Schools in East London

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Secondary Schools

Junior Schools

Meeting the Challenge

• 39 Enrolled Schools in total

6 Junior Schools

33 Secondary Schools

• 9 Training Sessions completed

• 10 out of 15 Boroughs engaged

• 20 Kick start portfolios given out

• 15 Action Plans completed

Action Plan: Personalised Plan for schools

Online personalised action plan for your school to identify actions, track progress and record improvements

Dining experience Marketing and engagement Good food, low price

Make lunchtimes cool

• Nutritious delicious food

• Attractive dining area

• Cashless system and staggered queuing

• On-site policy

• Theme and celebration days

• Come dine with us

Tastier Lunches

• Grown in school garden

What worked

• Committed and enthusiastic SLT and school staff

• Cooking Bus; Training sessions and webinars

• Competitions

• Incentives and Prizes

• Face-to-face visits – enrolments and Action Plans

• Linking up with Healthy Schools leaders in specific boroughs

• Engaged caterers

• “Last chance” message

The Focus on Food Cooking Bus comes to Waltham Forest

Cooking Bus Twilight Session

Cooking Bus Salad Off Competition

• Bridge and Claw • Taste and Win

Cooking Bus Food Tech Teachers

Let’s Cook with Chefs!

That was fun!

Want to find out more…

Contact the Food for Life team:

T: 0117 314 5180

Email ffl@foodforlife.org.uk Web:www.foodforlife.org.uk

Going Forward

• Government commitment to mandatory Cooking in the Curriculum for KS2 – 3

• Ofsted Common Inspection Framework to monitor health and wellbeing of students

• Mandatory School Food Standards in all schools

• School Food Plan resources

• Growing Partnerships

Healthy Schools London • In partnership with Health Education

Partnership working across 3 London Boroughs

• Uses a whole school approach to food education, cooking and food growing skills

• Supports Ofsted inspection for the health and wellbeing of children

Healthy Schools Award

Bronze Four criteria: 1. Healthy Eating; 2. Emotional Wellbeing; 3. Physical Activity; 4. PHSE Healthy Eating – whole school food policy development, healthy packed lunches, after school snacks, campaigns e.g. Change4life, training on delivering cooking in the curriculum and cooking clubs, curriculum resources, staff training modules tailored to schools’ needs Physical Activity – advice and training for schools on promotion of physical activity messages

Healthy Schools Award Silver Once achieved Bronze Award • School identifies two health priorities to form part of an

improvement plan.

If healthy weight, nutrition or physical activity is chosen, the school will be helped by nutritionists or physical activity specialists to

develop an improvement plan Gold • Team will help school in delivery and evaluation of improvement

plan Schools will be provided with staff training, parent workshops,

activities with pupils and support with food provision

Jillian Pitt, Mytime Active

Programme Manager & Nutritionist – HS Bronze awards

jillian.pitt@mytimeactive.co.uk

Keely Sunderland, Mytime Active

Programme Manager & Nutritionist – HS Silver and Gold awards

Keely.sunderland@mytimeactive.co.uk

David Millard, Health Education Partnership

Healthy Schools Co-ordinator

david.millard@healtheducationpartnership.com

Want to find out more or book a meeting?