WHOLE SCHOOL FOOD POLICY

Introduction:

In line with the school’s commitment to the general well being and health of the pupils, the school recognises the need to promote a whole school food policy that promotes and provides children to develop healthy eating habits.

Aims:

1. To encourage a healthy life style in children to enhance their learning potential and help them to carry this forward into their lives outside school.

2. To promote and embed healthy life long eating and lifestyle habits.

These will be achieved by:

1. All members of the school community adopting a positive approach to healthy life style and diet.

2. A senior member of the school staff (Mr Priestley, Deputy Headteacher) having overall responsibility for the healthy school policy and its implementation.

3. Ensuring that all food provided in school, including Out of School Care, complies with our general healthy eating procedures.

4. Encouraging those parents who provide their children with packed lunches to adopt healthy eating guidelines when selecting the contents of the lunch box.

5. Ensuring that children have access to healthy and appealing food and also to drinking water within the school.

6. Ensuring that the curriculum promotes healthy eating and safe food preparation and storage practices.

7. Ensuring that we enable children to enhance their knowledge and understanding and promote positive, healthy attitudes towards diet and life style.

8. Ensuring that meals in school are part of an enjoyable and safe experience.

9.  Ensuring that food provision in the school reflects the ethical and medical requirements of pupils and their families e.g. religious, ethnic, vegetarian, medical, and allergenic needs.

Monitoring and Evaluation

This policy will be reviewed on a regular basis (at least every two years.)

It will be reappraised in the light of any new developments and changes.