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Llandeilo Primary School’s rollout of free school meals helps fight food waste with innovative new scheme
aim within the kitchen and during our cookery sessions is to develop our pupils’ and our wider community’s ‘Food Literacy’”. “We provide the opportunities for pupils to plant, learn about, grow, harvest, and then cook the foods they grow. We also offer this produce for families to cook with as part of our Bocs Bwyd Llandeilo initiative.” Recognising the value of a nutritious, healthy lunch at school, Llandeilo was keen to promote Universal Primary Free School Meals to their school community, especially those families who had previously been providing packed lunches – often at a significant hit to parents’ pockets. Karen Towns, Headteacher at Llandeilo, said that her team began a mission to promote free school meals – hosting talks with parents, sharing information about foods the children would be eating, and working to identify any barriers to uptake.
The Welsh Government’s rollout of Universal Primary Free School Meals alongside the Curriculum for Wales has helped a school’s community develop healthy habits and help fight food waste.
Llandeilo Primary School launched the ‘Bocs Bwyd Llandeilo’ scheme – a community project that involves collecting surplus food from local businesses and community donations, aiming to remove economic barriers for parents. The produce is used in school cooking lessons, eliminating the need for families to purchase ingredients, while helping cut down on food waste. Lynne Williams who leads on the cookery initiative at the school, said: “Our
She said: “Through developing Bocs Bwyd Llandeilo, our school allotment (Y Nyth) and school kitchen (Y Cegin), we have deeper understanding of and connections with our families within the school.
“Families feel cared for and important, and appreciate their wellbeing and personal circumstances being supported.”
Looking to the future, the school aims to continue supporting learners and their families, through both food education to establish healthy habits in its community and the uptake of Universal Primary Free School Meals.
https://llandeilocommunityhub.org/foodbank-information//
Coventry pupils awarded for eco-friendly projects in solidarity with global communities
Children in Coventry have received a global award and drawn praise from their local MP for making a difference to the planet and those in need. Pupils at St John Fisher Catholic Primary School, part of the Romero Catholic Academy, were joined by Colleen Fletcher MP and guests from a host of charities as they received the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD) LiveSimply Award for their community and environmental projects.
Initiatives included a recycling project with Team Recycle, with the school community donating milk cartons and bottle tops which led to the creation of 18,000 plastic medals for the 2023 Oslo Marathon. The school also worked alongside the likes of Coventry Food Bank and Langar Aid, which supports people facing homelessness and poverty, gathering 15 crates of food donations, creating meal boxes and visiting their headquarters to learn about how to support people in the community.
The pupils also wrote more than 100 emails and letters to their MP, Colleen Fletcher, prior to COP28, which led her to raise their concerns around climate change affecting the poorest countries with the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, Claire Coutinho MP. To support these projects, children in KS2 created the school’s first Eco Club, responding to Pope Francis’s call for all people to work towards a more sustainable world.
Pauline Finn, Vice Principal at St John Fisher Catholic Primary School, said: “We are absolutely thrilled to receive this award and bring together so many special guests who the pupils have worked with other the last
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“To have this opportunity to celebrate their achievements has been fantastic. We are incredibly proud of our pupils for the work they have done, and grateful for the support we’ve had from some inspiring organisations.”
www.cafod.org.uk/campaign/livesimply-award
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