Catering & Nutrition
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What’s your view on how school meals are currently being provided across the UK?
There has been enormous progress in the last seven years. So many schools are making the link between better food and a child’s attention and behaviour, putting lots of hard work into delivering a great lunchtime experience. We’re seeing the best results at schools where a member of the senior leadership team is coordinating the school’s approach to good food, finding out what children and parents want and working to deliver that.
Jamie Oliver recently said that Britain had done “unforgivably badly” when it comes to food education. What do you think? Teaching children how to cook healthy meals, giving them an understanding of what makes a balanced diet and a consistent message about eating well, should be right up there with teaching them how to read and write. We’re backing the suggestion of a minimum of 24 hours of practical cooking at each of Key Stages 1 to 3.
The National Centre for Social Research recently looked at the effects of extending free meals to all in two pilot areas of England. Is this a viable approach across the board?
Offering free school meals to every child in Newham and Durham helped make them more likely to eat a better diet at school, do significantly better in class – with an average of two months more progress by pupils at Key Stages 1 and 2 – and less fussy about what they ate at home. It was particularly interesting to see that the impact on attainment seemed to be strongest among those from lower income backgrounds, and those who weren’t doing so well at school before. It shows how important it is to ensure every child living in poverty gets a free school meal.
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ducation Today grabbed a quick chat with Jeremy Boardman, Senior Children’s Food Advisor at the Children’s Food Trust and got his take on school meal provision
Trio of new schools products from Planglow
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eading label and compostable packaging provider, Planglow, has launched not one but two vibrant new label designs – Enjoy and Gingham – along with a standard-fill sandwich wedge.
Both label ranges lend a splash of colour to the caterers offering and have been created especially to enhance bright, colourful modern environments such as schools or colleges. What’s more, Gingham and Enjoy have been designed to work with the company’s best-selling Natural Collection and Enjoy also fits perfectly on the brand new Standard-Fill Wedge - a more slender product than the traditional deep-fill wedges, created especially for more economical or reduced fat ranges.
Both Gingham, with an asymmetric frame that suggests a classic gingham table cloth or picnic blanket and Enjoy, with a textured-cloth design and ‘hand- stitched’ border, are both made in the UK.
What’s more, like all Planglow sheet labels, they can be simply and speedily overprinted with product information, logos, slogans and other branding elements using Planglow’s market-leading label printing software – LabelLogic - a PC and either a laser or inkjet desktop printer.
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Calypso’s Juicy Aid saves endangered species
Victor gas hot cupboards offer exceptional versatility H
ot cupboards from Victor Manufacturing are known for quality, reliability and robust performance.
As well as a full range of electric hot cupboards, Victor also manufacture gas model versions in its heavy-duty Peer and Sceptre bains marie hot cupboard ranges. The Peer and Sceptre units are available for use with either natural gas or lpg. Gas models feature a combined spark ignition, flame failure and thermostatic control. Units are supplied with a standard BSP gas connection.
All Peer and Sceptre range models are available as pass through with removable sliding doors to both sides with a choice of four lengths, ranging from 1200mm to 2240mm. Plain top units may also be specified in two tiers with separate controls to each cupboard. Bespoke models featuring tray slides, overshelves, heated gantries and drop down serving flaps can also be specified.
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Calypso’s Juicy Aid soft drinks range has reached its target to save 1000 acres of threatened rainforest with the World Land Trust (WLT) and their overseas project partners in Argentina. Calypso had
partnered with the WLT, a conservation charity, to save the Atlantic Rainforest in Misiones Province, Argentina and has raised significant funds in the process, which will go towards the protection and
preservation of the rainforest. Juicy Aid, a lightly carbonated 50% pure fruit juice and natural mineral water drink, donates a percentage of its sales to the WLT. Richard Cooke, Calypso’s Sales & Marketing Director said: “This cause resonates strongly with many young people who feel very passionate about global ecological issues. We will
certainly continue to safeguard these fragile environments and the endemic wildlife over the coming years.” Calypso Juicy Aid is school approved, counts as one of your ‘five a day’ and is available in three variants: Berry Aid, Citrus Aid and Apple Aid, in 330ml bottles.
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October 2012
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