Healthy eating - The Marlborough School

THE MARLBOROUGH SCHOOL POLICY DOCUMENT
HEALTHY EATING
Aim
• To ensure that all aspects of food and nutrition in school promote health and wellbeing of
pupils, staff and visitors to the school.
• To encourage our pupils to develop positive attitudes to becoming healthy members of the
community by :
• only providing food, including snacks, which are nutritious and healthy,
• encouraging participation in exercise and fresh air,
• including a range of healthy issues in the curriculum and linking the curriculum to
food offered in school,
• working to the principles of Every Child Matters,
• following the healthy eating guidelines issued by the DCSF
• To ensure that all food products used in the school kitchen meet the minimum nutritional
standards and that ingredients will only be purchased from reliable sources.
• For free, fresh drinking water to be accessible at all times.
Objectives
• To work towards ensuring that the policy is accepted and embraced by governors, staff,
pupils, parents and the wider school community.
• To integrate these aims into all aspects of school life, in particular food provision within
school, the curriculum and social activities.
• To create appropriate environments in which to eat and socialise, in particular, facilitating
eating sitting at a table.
• Behaviour Management Policy does not include food as a reward.
• To ensure vending machines sell only healthy options.
• To encourage those who bring packed lunches to school to support the school’s eating
policy by having healthy, balanced packed lunches.
• The school will not participate in any incentive schemes which encourage the collection of
tokens from foods which should be eaten in moderation eg. Collecting chocolate wrappers
or crisp packets.
• To establish a breakfast club.
• To develop the potential for growing fresh produce in the school grounds.
• To promote the catering service through the website, a termly newsletter and internal
promotion.
• To ensure a vegetarian option is available and, where possible, endeavour to provide food
meeting individual requirements ie on religious grounds, dietary – low sugar etc.
• To ensure that the nutritional standards for the provision of food in school prescribed in
the Nutritional Standards for School lunches Regulations are complied with :
Monitoring and Evaluation
• The governing body will receive annual reports on the extent to which the food provision is
conforming to the Regulations in terms of content, cost and provision, and the number of
pupils receiving free school meals.
• Surveys of pupils and parents will be undertaken at regular intervals to establish the level
of satisfaction with the quality of meals offered.
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SUMMARY OF NUTRITIONAL STANDARDS FOR SCHOOL LUNCHES
More Fruit and
Vegetables
More Oily Fish
Bread
Drinking Water
Healthier Drinks
Not less than two servings per day per child; at least one should be
vegetables or salad and at least one should be fruit.
Oily fish such as mackerel or salmon should be served at least once
every three weeks.
Bread should be available at lunch every day.
Free, fresh drinking water should be available at all times.
The only drinks served should be water, pure fruit juices, milk, yoghurt
and milk drinks with less than 5% added sugar, smoothies, low calorie hot
chocolate, coffee and tea. (NB Artificial sweeteners could be used only in
yoghurt and milk drinks, or combinations based on yoghurt or milk.)
This means sweetened fizzy drinks which have little nutritional value are
no longer allowed.
These foods are now restricted or no longer allowed
NO Confectionery
NO Savoury Snacks
NO Salt
Condiments –
Restricted
Deep-Fried Foods –
Restricted
Manufactured Meat
Products –
Restricted
Confectionery such as chocolate bars, chocolate-coated biscuits and
sweets should not be available for lunch.
Savoury snacks such as crisps should not be available for lunch. Only
nuts and seeds with no added salt, sugar or fat are allowed.
Salt should not be available at lunch.
Condiments, such as ketchup and mayonnaise, should only be available
in sachets.
Meals should not contain more than two deep-fried foods, such as chips
and batter-coated products, in a single week.
These products, such as chicken nuggets, burgers and sausage rolls,
may only be served occasionally, and only providing they meet standards
for minimum meat content and do not contain any prohibited offal.
Date of Policy: 2 nd February 2011
Date of Review of Policy: February 2014
Reviewed by the Governors’ Pupils and Personnel Sub Committee
Signed by Chair : ……………………………………………..
Date : ………………………………………………………….
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