Annual Report 2019-20

TASMANIAN
SCHOOL
CANTEEN
ASSOCIATION INC
N N U A L R E P O R T
A
O R 2 0 1 9 - 2 0 2 0
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encourage a whole school approach to nutritious
To
eating.
TSCA is a trusted, reliable organisation
The
nutrition and food service information, advice and
for
2025 all Government and Non-Government schools
By
a food service are working with the TSCA. 50% of
with
schools will have Gold status and Tasmanian
accredited
will have access to healthy, safe, fresh, local,
children
processed, culturally appropriate and
minimally
'everyday' food and drink.
affordable
OUR PURPOSE
OUR VISION
support for schools and the broader community.
OUR MISSION

Collaborative
Evidence-based
for eating ‘everyday’ foods
Advocates
and supportive
Flexible
Equitable
of local produce
Supporters
the past couple of years, a number of Tasmanian
Over
Government Policies have influenced and shaped
State
work. These documents address a population health
our
and acknowledge and support the work of
perspective
Healthy Tasmania 5 Year Strategic Plan -
o
the Student Health Initiative.
incorporating
Grow, Make, Protect – Tasmanian Agricultural
o
Framework (2016)
Education
Child and Student Wellbeing Strategy (2018 –
o
2021)
OUR VALUES
At the TSCA we stand for being:
OUR LINKS WITH
GOVERNMENT POLICY
the TSCA. In particular, the;
Our work has been acknowledged in the Departments of Education's Child and
Student Wellbeing Strategy Implementation - 2020-21: Physical Wellbeing and
the Environment. The TSCA has been linked in to Actions 2: Provide schools with
resources to support healthy eating. Exciting times for addressing how we feed
children well whilst they are at school.

CONTENTS
TSCA Board
Page 5
Our Year in Summary
Page 6 - 15
Canteen Accreditation Program
Page 16
Student Health Initiative
Page 17
Feeding the Children Project
Page 18
Breakfast Program
Page 19
Well Fed Tasmania
Page 20
Churchill Fellowship
Page 21 - 22
Oral Health Tasmania
Page 23
Linking up with Hawthorn
Page 24
Canteen Awards
Page 25
National Meeting
Page 26
Accredited Schools list
Page 27

Patron
TSCA
Milbourne of Masterchef, numerous cookbooks e.g. Ben’s
Ben
continues to be our Patron and advocates our cause. He
fame,
at our National conference on Friday the 13th
present
of Ben Milbourne
PHOTO
Julie (EO) at the launch
and
the Make it Tasty Make it
of
cookbook.
Well
BOARD
MEMBERS
Jared Dickason - President
Olivia Salmon and Elizabeth Knox- Vice President
Emily Ridler - Treasurer
Maree Taylor - Secretary
Committee Members
Carol Hilyer
Julieanne Kregor
Kathy McInerny
Tory Ross
Alison Holmstrom
Scott Edwards
Trail and Channel 10 food program – Ben’s Menu and Food Lab
September, 2019.
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OUR YEAR IN SUMMARY....
The Tasmanian School Canteen Association Inc (TSCA) ) has enjoyed a very successful year
despite the disruption of COVID - 19. Our operations continue to be strong due to the
funding provided by the Department of Education (DoE) and Department of Health (DoH).
We have kept our major work – the Canteen Accreditation Program (CAP) – vibrant and
applicable to schools and their communities. The Student Health Initiative has also been
pivotal to our daily work. The Student Health Initiative funding has come to an end as of the
30th of June, 2020, but we are working with the DoE for a transition in focus through the
Child and Student Wellbeing Strategy. Some of the highlights of the last 12 months include
hosting the National Canteen Association meeting (refer to page 26), Julie Dunbabin's
Churchill Fellowship( refer to pages 21-22)and the projects that emerged in response to
COVID - 19 (refer to page 18).
TSCA OPERATIONS
Our Strategic Plan (2017-20) and our Annual Plan (2019) that are developed with our
partners the Community Dietitians (DoH), and Curriculum Officers (DoE) continue to shape
both our work and our goals for the organisation. We continue to focus on health literacy
through the resources and information that we share through the HelloTas training program
offered by the Tasmanian Council of Social Services (TasCOSS), Primary Health Tasmania
and the Department of Health’s health literacy training.
CANTEEN MANAGERS
Our work with Canteen Managers in Government and Non-Government schools continues
to be our major focus and our engagement with them continues to grow and develop.
Canteen Managers are increasingly seeking advice from the TSCA, as trusted advisors (one
of our values), regarding nutritional school lunch options. This has been measured through
the growth in schools becoming TSCA members and also their canteens becoming
accredited. We continue to be impressed with the quality and local sourcing of food that
many Canteen Managers are serving to Tasmanian children and their ability to adjust their
service delivery to match the evolving and exciting message of enjoying food. Canteen
Managers and the TSCA staff continue to enjoy a mutually rewarding relationship as we all
grow and learn together in developing new and interesting ways to serve canteen cooked
food from local and seasonal ingredients for Tasmanian children to enjoy.
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YEARS
TSCA TEAM
The TSCA team always work effectively and professionally with
Tasmanian schools to support them to participate in the Canteen
Accreditation Program. Our successes for this reporting period include:
77% of schools with a canteen or food service are engaged with us. This figure
was 73% last year. 188 schools from a possible 243 schools with a canteen or food
service are either accredited or working towards accreditation.
101 accredited schools, up from 86 schools last year. 80 of these schools are
Government schools and 21 are Non-Govt schools.
A continued increase in the number of High schools, District High Schools and
Colleges becoming involved with us.
48 of the 49 Government High and District Schools are now
engaged with us, of which 21 are accredited
4 of the 8 colleges are engaged with us
Our first became college became accredited at a Bronze
level and they were our 100th accredited school.
93 of 118 Govt Primary schools with a canteen are engaged with us, of which 58
are accredited.
We are so pleased with these results and recognise that it has been a team effort to
achieve this. The graph below illustrates how the TSCA has continued to increase
school engagement from 2013-2020.
NUMBER OF SCHOOLS
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Tina Ingram joined the team in 2018. She is based in the North West region. Tina has
engaged with numerous schools that we were having difficulty connecting with. Having
Tina on the ground, as a local, is paying dividends in canteen engagement and has
resulted in an increase in accredited schools in the region. Since Tina has joined the team
8 schools in the North West schools that have become accredited for the first time or
have rejoined the program.
Jen Lea, Program Officer in the south, has continued her focus on the Student Health
Initiative work, particularly with Clarendon Vale Primary School and Clarence Plains Child
and Family Centre’s ‘Love in a Lunchbox’ project, which is in it’s final year of a very
exciting Action Research Cycle approach enabling and empowering grass roots change
in choosing nutritious food over less nutritious food. Due to COVID - 19 the major
component of Love in a Lunchbox an expo didn't occur but instead there was a focus on
feeding the children lunch for a month. Jen also had a key role in developing a mental
health document for schools.
Laura Cini, Program Officer in the south has taken on the lead of our organisation
becoming a health literate one. She has also taken the lead in strengthening our
Volunteer infrastructure and was a key organiser in the National Canteen meeting. Laura
also took a key role in developing the 4 page document outlining the Canteen
Accreditation Program.
Maria Scanlon, Program Officer in the North has taken on the lead role in reviewing our
5 year old ‘School Canteen Handbook – a whole school approach to healthy eating’. We
are planning for this to be completed by the end of 2020.
Kirsty Grierson, TSCA Administrator and Project Officer continues to keep us all on
track. She has produced some great resources and maintains and updates our website so
that it is relevant. Kirsty acted in Julie Dunbabin’s role during October through to
December whilst Julie was on her Churchill Fellowship and did an excellent job.
During the year Julie Dunbabin, Executive Officer embarked on her Churchill Fellowship
to research the factors that enable school lunch programs to impact positively on student
health and wellbeing (refer to page 21-22).
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Funding partners, the Department of Health (DoH) and the Department of Education
Our
want measurable returns on their investment in health promotion through our
(DoE)
Accreditation Program, which due to our growing school membership, interested
Canteen
membership, our accredited school numbers increasing and evidence that the
Corporate
school approach to healthy eating message is being consolidated through our work
whole
the work of our partners, we are certainly meeting our Key Performance Indicators.
and
TSCA continues to value and appreciate working with the DoH’s Primary Health
The
Dietitians and the support and professionalism that we receive from the DoE’s
Service’s
Curriculum Officer – Health and Physical Education and Project Manager of
Principal
Curriculum.
are part of the Government’s Healthy Tasmania Five Year Strategic Plan (July 2016),
We
the Student Health Initiative (SHI) component. Of the possible 87 Government
through
that were identified as part of the SHI, 58 schools have received funding to work on
schools
student health initiatives. 56 of the 87 identified schools are 2019 members of the
their
and Banana Smoothies being
Berry
up at a community event in
served
FUNDING PARTNERS
TSCA.
We continue to implement the evaluation outcomes from the TSCA Evaluation Report.
These include the professional development needs of Canteen Managers, refining the
program’s requirements and changing the accreditation program’s name to Smart Food
Award in 2020 which have all been actioned, or are being actioned, through a planned
approach. We also continued our collaborations with the Menzies Institute for Medical
Research and the University of Tasmania on researching sales data to measure the trends
in the type of food children purchase from the school canteen. The project 'measuring food
and drink sold over the counter at a school canteen' trialed an app developed by the
University of Tasmania to test whether Grade 5/6 students and canteen staff could use the
app to record what food and drinks were sold over the counter. We compared sales
recorded by students or canteen staff using the app to sales counted by a research team
member. We found that there was good agreement between the two methods.
Gagebrook.
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of Family Food Patch
PHOTO
the TSCA setting up the
and
Fed Tasmania Food Van
Well
Montrose Bay Park
at
PARTNERSHIPS
The TSCA continues to enjoy effective collaborative relationships with a number of
organisations and programs.
Some highlights of our collaborations include the following:
Our partnership with the DoH Dietitians continues to strengthen the
CAP’s outcomes. The Dietitians are paramount to the Program’s menu
section, provide the latest nutritional information to our team and school
communities through newsletters, website information, TSCA Product
Guide, workshops and support our delivery of health literacy work with
Canteen Managers.
Our partnership with the Local Government Environmental Health
Officers is of great importance due to their link to the food safety
component of CAP. Our joint focus has been on reviewing and
streamlining the form requirements for the School Canteen Handbook,
as well as addressing the food safety training needs of canteen staff.
The Move Well Eat Well (MWEW) alliance continues to be strong with
shared knowledge and support provided to MWEW and CAP schools.
We have worked with MWEW and Family Food Patch (FFP) to deliver the
"eating well and moving more" messages at schools and communities,
through the Well Fed Tasmania food van. This was linked to MWEW
funding to celebrate schools involved with MWEW and the TSCA.
10

of Family Food Patch
PHOTO
TSCA's display of easy
and
and ready to go
healthy,
ideas at an event in
snack
The oral health message of drinking water and reducing the amount of
sugary foods on the school canteen menu continues to be supported
through our CAP and our work with the DoH’s Oral Health team at various
community events.
The School Health Nurse (SHN) and TSCA alliance continues to work
positively and constructively. We work collaboratively with the nurses to
address Student Health Initiative needs and other food service related
issues as they arise. An example of this partnership is the work that has
been happening at Cosgrove High School. During the early stages of
COVID - 19 the Foods Teacher with the support from the SHN and
ingredients from Loaves and Fishes have worked with a group of students
to cook 'ready to eat' meals. These were then distributed to vulnerable
people in our community.
Goodwood
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• Our dear friends at Family Food Patch (FFP) and the Child Health
Association Tasmania (CHAT) continue to make our TSCA work so
enjoyable due to the comraderie and our shared goal to support our
communities to raise healthy, happy children. We have partnered with
CHAT and the FFP program in the development of our ‘Well Fed
Tasmania’ mobile food van which was launched in August, 2018. Whilst
COVID - 19 has slowed our work down (5 months under lockdown) we still
travelled 5000km. Our van can pop up in schools and communities to
promote eating simply prepared, local, seasonal produce and on site
educational sessions for parents, Canteen Managers and children. We
also completed a project with FFP, Clarence City Council and Rosny
College to develop vignettes of recipes from Family Food Patch’s
ABC/123 Cookbook (funded through 26TEN) that showcases simple and
yummy recipes using ten everyday vegetables.
• This year, our work with the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden
Program and the MONA 24 Carrot Program has again strengthened and
we have seen a number of schools with fantastic produce gardens
embrace the canteen operation at their school through providing garden
produce for the canteen menu. Of the 14 24 Carrot schools, 12 are
accredited with the TSCA, 1 is working towards accreditation and 1
school doesn't have a canteen.
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• The Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens (RTBG) partnership
with the TSCA to promote the growing, harvesting and cooking
of garden grown fruit and vegetables continues to develop. We
have a plot at the RTBG produce area and plan to share what
to grow and how to cook via social media and workshops. We
hosted the National School Canteen meeting at the RTBG
utilising their meeting rooms for the workshops and outdoor
spaces for lunch. We were able to showcase our jointly owned
with CHAT 'Well Fed Tasmania' food van - providing lunch for
the delegates.
• Eat Well Tasmania (EWT) and the TSCA have worked
energetically together throughout 2019/2020 to share the
message that Tasmanians need to eat more vegetables and
fruit. The TSCA has continued to support EWT through their
#vegitup and #getfruity campaigns by promoting the message
in schools and through the Well Fed Tasmania food van.
• We continue to focus on our Corporate Partnerships. Our
partnership with Hill Street Grocers continues throughout the
State. They have generously provided a 10% discount for school
canteen managers' food bills. Hill Street Grocers has a strong
commitment to supporting local producers and to child health
and wellbeing, which fits in beautifully with our mission and
values.
• Our partnership with Mures Fish is still a strong relationship
and the promotion of fish on the school menu remains a focus
for the TSCA.
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but certainly not least, we would like to thank and
Last
the TSCA Board members for their contribution on a
acknowledge
basis. Our Board continues to develop and grow with
volunteer
and provides the TSCA staff with focus, support and
experience
in achieving our vision and mission of the TSCA. During
guidance
reporting period we have embarked on a new strategic
this
process as our current strategic plan will be completed by
planning
2020.
June,
year we said farewell to both Elizabeth Knox and Scott
This
Elizabeth contributed greatly to our Board over the past
Edwards.
of years and Scott although only on the Board briefly had
couple
into the food and safety section of the Handbook. We wish
input
Our partnership with Loaves and Fishes continues to develop
with a focus to address food insecurity and the responsible use
of surplus food across Tasmania. They see a Tasmania where
good food is not wasted and no person needs to go hungry.
Their production and distribution of food relief provides real
jobs and education pathways. They operate a business model
which pushes them organisationally to long term sustainability.
We are currently working on some canteen lines with them that
are at least Amber rated. Products such as burgers that are
packed with vegies, meatballs, fruit muffins, bliss balls, home
style party pies (with vegies) and real chicken nuggets!!
Tasmanian Healthy Family Food Coalition - encouraging all
Tasmanian Families to enjoy tasty, seasonal, locally grown and
produced food, and improving food literacy was formed to
enable the three non government organisations - TSCA, CHAT
and EWT to pitch to the Premiers Economic and Social Recovery
Advisory Council in addressing our recovery from the impact of
COVID - 19. This is in relation to moving from emergency food
relief to food security in schools and communities.
TSCA BOARD
them both all the best in their future adventures.
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have achieved so much this year with our school engagement
We
from 73% to 77% and we anticipate another busy year
increasing
of us. We will continue to focus on increasing the number of
ahead
schools and school food services, supporting
accredited
development, advocating for a different way of
professional
children whilst at school through DoE funding and funding
feeding
from a Healthy Tasmania grant enabling us to pilot the
received
of a sit down school lunch cooked from scratch in 3
delivery
in Term 4, 2020. Our revised School Canteen Handbook
schools
be ready at the end of 2020 which will include a fresh way of
will
school menus, a platinum level of accreditation and our
assessing
program name, Smart Food Award.
new
Well Fed Tasmania food van has definitely enhanced our core
The
and also enabled us to address gaps in community food
work
however we need to explore ongoing funding for the
education,
of the food van.
operation
State ‘Child and Student Wellbeing Strategy’ (2018-2021) has
Our
us with a robust structure to communicate and work with
provided
DoE. The focus for schools in 2020/21 is on Physical Health and
the
Environment. Action 2 of this focus links the TSCA to provide
the
to support healthy eating. The COAG Ministerial
resources
on Healthy Food and Drink choices at School – the Good
statement
evaluation focus on our service continued over the past 12
Our
as too did our work with Menzies and UTAS on the
months
on the sales of foods in canteens as well as the
influence
of sales data. However, as always, our primary aim for
collection
is to continue to see an increase in schools with a
2020/21
working with us to achieve the Government's aim that by
canteen
our state will be the healthiest in the nation". Canteen
"2025
supports all Tasmanian children having access to
Accreditation
tasty and safe food and ensures that ‘everyday’ foods
nutritious,
normal and easy choices.
are
Practice Guide was signed but not launched.
J A R E D D I C K A S O N
J U L I E D U N B A B I N
TSCA President
Executive Officer
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CANTEEN
ACCREDITATION
PROGRAM
We are excited to have 101 accredited Government and
Non Government schools. (We had 86 schools accredited at
this time last year). This means that 101 schools have
achieved the following as part of our program:
Have a school ‘healthy food’ policy
Comply and go beyond the requirements regarding food
safety as per Local Government and State Food
Regulation requirements.
Have had their menu assessed by our team of Dietitians
at either Gold, Silver or Bronze level.
Provided evidence of a whole school approach to
healthy eating that links with the canteen where
possible. 3 examples for Gold, 2 for Silver and 1 for
Bronze.
Graphic showing Accredited and Partcipating Schools
Participating
47.1%
Gold
30.9%
FIGURE 1.
According to Wikipedia, an
Bronze
5.8%
Silver
16.2%
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the preceding
throughout
year.
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STUDENT HEALTH
INITIATIVE
The State Government’s Student Health
Initiative (2016 – 2020) continued to shape our work but
came to a close in June,2020. Identified schools were
able to apply for funding of up to $10 000 a year over a
four year period to address school needs with community
partners in the areas of healthy school canteens and
breakfast clubs, kitchen garden and agricultural initiatives,
physical activity, drug education and relationships.
As part of this Initiative it was stipulated that Government
schools with a canteen are to have commenced a process
to achieve canteen accreditation with the TSCA to be
able to access the funding. 87 schools were identified for
the Student Health Initiative(SHI). 58 schools are currently
funded through the SHI and are currently engaged with us
in varying degrees.
32/ 58 SHI schools are accredited.
19/ 58 SHI schools are working towards
accreditation.
4/58 are not engaged with the TSCA.
3/58 have no school canteen.
We have enjoyed working with Clarence Plains on their Love
in a Lunchbox 4 year project. This was in partnership with
FIGURE 1.
Clarendon Vale Primary School and Clarence Plains Child
According to Wikipedia, an
and Family Centre. This was one of the SHI projects
annual report is a
undertaken.
comprehensive report on a
company's activities
throughout the preceding
year.
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PHOTO
prepared by schools for Tasmanian families by Rokeby and Waverly Primary Schools
Food
DURING COVID- 19
FEEDING THE
CHILDREN PROJECT
The Feeding the Children Project was initiated by the TSCA and implemented in partnership
with Loaves and Fishes Tasmania (previously Second Bite), Family Food Patch
(CHAT) and other organisations such as Rotary Clubs. During this time of COVID 19 we know
that Tasmanian schools are working closely with families to support their school communities.
In numerous schools around the state, Canteen Managers and school staff (eg, Home
Economics teachers, Foods support staff and School Business Managers) are cooking meals to
share with their school families during this time of uncertainty.
TSCA has teamed with Loaves and Fishes Tasmania to deliver ingredients to schools. It is
amazing what the following ingredients can make: potatoes, carrots, onions, apples, rolled
oats, long-life milk and where possible, beef mince, chicken cuts and sausages.
Recipes from the TSCA and and Family Food Patch, as well as activity cards based on the
basic ingredients have been well used by the schools involved.
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MAP
Breakfast Programs statewide.
Showing
DURING COVID- 19
BREAKFAST PROGRAMS
During the time where schools were in lock down, due to COVID 19, the TSCA, with the support
from TasCOSS, began to gather data around School Breakfast Programs. This information has
provided us with a snap shot of which schools are providing Breakfast Programs, how they are
sourcing the food and who are running the programs. 66% of Tasmanian schools provide a
Breakfast Program.
Has a Breakfast
Program
Does not have a
Breakfast Program
No response
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of Rosny College
PHOTO
recipes.
filming
of the food van with
PHOTO
Officer Maria (TSCA)
Project
Canteen Manager
and
Radford at
Patricia
District High
Winnaleah
School
below of Julie (TSCA) in the food
PHOTO
at Dover District School
van
The Well Fed Tasmania Food Van developed in partnership with the Child Health Association
of Tasmania and their Family Food Patch program has been out and about. Obviously this
has been slowed down due to COVID 19 restrictions but during the last half of 2019 events
were held in schools at Winnaleah, Queenstown, Dover and at community events in Ouse,
Goodwood, and Bagdad. In addition to these events, we completed working with Clarence
City Council and Rosny College media students to present 10 everyday vegetable recipes in
small videos on location in the Clarence area. These recipes are from the Family Food
Patch ABC/123 Cookbook.
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CHURCHILL
FELLOWSHIP
no confectionary available from the
Last year Julie was fortunate enough to travel
for eight weeks, as part of a Churchill
school.
drinks were either water or milk. There
Fellowship, to seven countries to see how
children are fed their school lunch. She visited
were no juices or fizzy drinks.
the USA (Chicago, Washington D.C.),
England, Scotland, Finland, Italy, France and
Evaluations of these lunch programs
showed an increase capacity for
Japan.
The consistent components of her findings are:
social interaction and skills
academic outcomes
All children were provided their school
concentration and focus after lunch
lunch by the school. There were no lunches
or snacks coming from home (except for a
increased attendance.
few exceptions in England).
Canteen staff were paid for all the time
that they worked – there were no volunteers
in the canteen but there were volunteers
supervising children whilst they ate.
There was great pride in the use of local,
seasonal and organic ingredients.
Children were provided with at least 25
minutes to sit, talk, enjoy and eat their meal
before going out to play. Equal time given
to eating and playing.
There was little choice on each day – it was
a set meal for all students – particularly so
at primary school. The menu changed daily.
This was an agreed menu for each term,
planned with the school and local
government team made up of canteen
staff, dietitians, teachers and parents.
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The infographic below provides an overview of the findings of the Churchill Fellowship

of the food van at the
PHOTO
with Kirsty (TSCA)
launch
Emma from Family Food
and
Patch.
are some of the
Below
prepared in the van
snacks
the postcard resources
and
as part of the
developed
ORAL HEALTH
TASMANIA
The TSCA was excited to be a part of a Clarence City Council initiative which saw new oral
health resource kits launched in October, 2019. Family Food Patch developed 4 eye catching
postcards with simple, key messages: eat well, drink well, brush well, stay well. The key
stakeholders with Oral Health Services Tasmania, Child Health Association Tasmania, Family
Food Patch were Population Health Services, Health Promotion South, TSCA, and Move Well Eat
Well - Early Childhood Award Program. These resources are now available to share with parents
and children at schools and community events.
project.
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LINKING UP WITH HAWTHORN
FOOTBALL CLUB
The TSCA partnered with the Hawthorn Football Club’s four pre-game activities before their
Tasmanian matches during 2019. These were hosted at the Harvest Market in Launceston as
part of Hawka’s Fork – a program to entice children to taste some of the produce from the
market. This partnership was halted in the 2020 Football season due to COVID 19.
PHOTO
Hawka and Hawkette with Kirsty
and the Hawk's Community
Ambassador, Curley.
PHOTO
Julie and Curley at the
Harvest Market cooking
up some salmon.
PHOTO
A selection of delicious fresh
FIGURE 1.
vegetables at the Harvest Market.
According to Wikipedia, an
annual report is a
Many children and families try the food on offer. There are
comprehensive report on a
company's activities
always many questions about the TSCA and people are keen
to take a copy of the recipes.
throughout the preceding
year.
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CANTEEN AWARDS
A very big congratulations to all the winners from the 2019 Canteen Awards.
Triabunna District School won first place in all four categories of the Awards: Canteen
Volunteer Award, Environmentally Friendly Canteen Award, Canteen Manager of the Year
and Minister’s Award for Best Whole School Approach to Healthy Eating linked to the
School Canteen. For the judges to choose the one school to receive all four awards is very
unusual; we’ve not ever seen this happen. Well done Triabunna!
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NATIONAL CANTEEN
ASSOCIATION'S MEETING
The TSCA hosted the National Canteen Association meeting in September, 2019 at the Royal
Tasmanian Botanical Gardens. This was a fantastic two-day event attended by representatives
from each state and territories. The Well Fed Tasmania food van catered for lunch on the first
day with a selection of soups followed by apple crumble for dessert. We had guest speakers Dr
Deana Leahy from Monash University presenting on the role of food in schools, Chris Ogden
from the Queensland Association of School Tuckshops talking about creating a community
canteen, and TSCA Patron Ben Milbourne discussing the important role of food in schools. All
the delegates were treated to a wonderful paella lunch on the second day cooked and served
by students from Austins Ferry Primary School and their 24 Carrot Kitchen Garden program
team. Each state and territory presented a report on their work for the last 12 months. It was
exciting to hear about each states programs and future projects. Delegates were impressed
with how our state works in partnerships with other likeminded organisations and the state
government to have happy, healthy children.
PHOTO
Students from Austin's Ferry Primary School
serving paella to the participants of the National
Meeting.
PHOTO BELOW
Participants of the National Meeting with TSCA
patron Ben Milbourne.
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ACCREDITED SCHOOLS
Albuera St Primary School
Rokeby Primary School
Bayview Secondary College
Andrew Creek Primary School
Austins Ferry Primary School
Rosebery District High School
Burnie Primary School
Campbell Town District High
Bagdad Primary School
Rosetta Primary School
Collinsvale Primary School
School
Bellerive Primary School
Sacred Heart Primary School
East Ulverstone Primary School
Clarence High School
Blackmans Bay Primary School
(Geeveston)
Gagebrook Primary School
Deloraine Primary School
Bowen Rd Primary School
Scotch Oakburn College
Glenorchy Primary School
Deloraine High School
Brighton Primary School
(Elphin Campus)
Howrah Primary School
Hobart College
Cambridge Primary School
Snug Primary School
Jordan River Learning Federation
Invermay Primary School
Campania District School
Somerset Primary School
Senior School
Montrose Bay High School
Clarendon Vale Primary School
Stella Maris Primary School
Kingston High School
Riverside Primary School
East Launceston Primary School
St Aloysius Senior School
Lenah Valley Primary School
Oatlands DHS
Exeter Primary School
St Aloysius Junior School
Montello Primary School
Fahan School
St Brigids Catholic School
Mount Stuart Primary School
Goulburn St Primary School
St Michael's Collegiate School
New Town High School
Havenview Primary School
(Junior/Middle/Senior Campuses)
Ogilvie High School
Herdmans Cove Primary School
St Peter Chanel Primary School
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic PS
Hillcrest Primary School
St Virgil’s College Senior School
Prospect High School
Holy Rosary Catholic School
Taroona High School
Ridgley Primary School
Huonville Primary School
Triabunna District School
Sacred Heart New Town
Huonville High School
The Friends School
St Johns Catholic Primary School
Kingston Primary School
The Hutchins Junior School
St Josephs Catholic School Queenstown
Lauderdale Primary School
Warrane Primary School
St Mary’s College Jr
Lindisfarne Primary School
Waimea Primary School
Scottsdale Primary School
Lindisfarne North Primary School
Woodbridge School
Springfield Gardens Primary School
Margate Primary School
Yolla District School
Sheffield School
Miandetta Primary School
Strahan Primary School
Montagu Bay Primary School
Swansea Primary School
Moonah Primary School
Tarremah Steiner School
Mowbray Heights Primary School
Westbury Primary School
New Norfolk Primary School
Windermere Primary School
Norwood Primary School
Winnaleah District High School
Perth Primary School
Wynyard High School
Princes St Primary School
Zeehan Primary School
Richmond Primary School
Risdon Vale Primary School
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