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Food4Life in schools Award


The Tameside School’s Food4Life Award is co-ordinated and managed by the Children Nutrition Team at the Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust.
The Food4Life schools award is a chance for schools to celebrate and be recognised for good practice around healthy eating and a healthy lifestyle. It is given to schools that show a whole school approach to the provision and promotion of healthy food. It also ensures that the food being served in school meets School Food Standards.  Part of the award involves us analysing the menus and making suggestions for alternatives where this is not the case. Schools in the 20% most deprived in Tameside are targeted first, however this award is offered to all schools in Tameside.
 

Click the case studies below to see what each school did do get the Food4Life award.


Take a look at what your school would need to do to get the award:

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Schools who sign up to an award are visited by a Nutrition Advisor to discuss the award criteria, the assessment also includes a visit at a meal time to observe lunchtime meal provision, as well as talking to a named representative, catering staff and children in the schools care. The award is assessed on a 3 tier scale which allows schools to achieve bronze, silver or gold standard. The Team support the school to work their way up through the levels of the award. In order to achieve an award the school work towards the criteria below:

The school must have:
  • At least 1 staff member must have received training from the Children’s Nutrition. Team (for Gold this must be a level 2 training course on Food and Nutrition or Cook and Eat Train the Trainer).
  • Healthy eating must be actively promoted in a variety of ways within the school.
  • Whole school food policies must be produced, promoted and regularly reviewed.
  • All food provided during the school day must meet the school food standards; this includes breakfast clubs, snacks, school meals, after school clubs.
  • Healthy packed lunches must be promoted.
  • The school must ensure that birthday treats and rewards are non-food items. 

Should you be interested in the award further for your school, please contact the Children’s Nutrition Team at Childrensnutrition@tgh.nhs.uk

The table below details Tameside’s fabulous Food4Life award holders:

Gold

Silver

Bronze

ARLIES PRIMARY SCHOOL HAWTHORNS SCHOOL  

ASHTON WEST END PRIMARY

ST GEORGE'S CE PRIMARY SCHOOL
 

BRADLEY GREEN PRIMARY ACADEMY

MICKLEHURST ALL SAINTS CE PRIMARY

 

DENTON WEST END PRIMARY SCHOOL

STALYHILL INFANT SCHOOL

 

DROYLSDEN ACADEMY
BROADBENT FOLD PRIMARY
 

GREENFIELD PRIMARY SCHOOL

STALYHILL INFANT SCHOOL

 

MILLBROOK PRIMARY SCHOOL

CORRIE PRIMARY

 

THE HEYS PRIMARY SCHOOL

YEW TREE PRIMARY

 

PAROCHIAL CE PRIMARY SCHOOL

 

 

PINFOLD PRIMARY SCHOOL

 

 

ST CHRISTOPHER'S RC PRIMARY SCHOOL

 

 

FAIRFIELD PRIMARY

 

 

WATERLOO PRIMARY SCHOOL

 

 

DENTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE

 

 

GREAT ACADEMY

 

 

ST DAMIAN'S RC COLLEGE

 

 

ST MARY'S CE PRIMARY SCHOOL

 

 

FLOWERY FIELD PRIMARY SCHOOL

 

 

ST RAPHAEL'S RC PRIMARY SCHOOL

 

 

MOTTRAM CofE PRIMARY SCHOOL