Food for Life Partnership

Transforming food culture, one school at a time.
Getting young people excited about growing and cooking local, seasonal and organic food, and learning about life on the farm...

Awards for schools...

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Award winning schools 2009

Current news & events

Food for Life Partnership Midlands awards ceremony

04 February -

Monty Don will present awards to Food for Life Partnership schools at the Soil Association annual conference.

Children's lunchboxes full of junk

A new study by Leeds University reveals that if the nutritional standards set for school meals were applied to packed lunches only 1% would comply.
Joanna Lewis, Head of Policy for the Food for Life Partnership, says:
“This research shows that packed lunches are no solution to our epidemic of diet related diseases and childhood obesity..."
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School dinner revolution

4 January 2010

Food for Life Partnership school meals advisor Jeanette Orrey is interviewed on the Food Programme (BBC Radio 4) along with representatives from Food for Life Partnership schools. The programme focuses on the current state of school food.

Five years on from Turkey Twizzlers

15 December 2009

Today The Guardian Education Supplement published a full page article focusing on how school food has changed since Jamie Oliver's Feed Me Better campaign. The article highlights the work of the Food for Life Partnership and Joanna Lewis, head of policy, and school meals adviser, Jeanette Orrey are quoted...

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Food, Inc and the Food for Life Patnership

Film-maker Robert Kenner visits St John the Baptist School in Hackney along with food expert and writer Eric Schlosser. Find out more about their film Food, Inc and watch a short video of their day learning about the Food for Life Partnership.

Blog of the week - The Cooking Bus comes to King's Road Primary

Pupils and parents from King’s Road Primary write about their visit from the Cooking Bus. Find out what they cooked and how it tasted!

TEACHER'S ACTIVITY PACK

Have your students watched our One Planet Food film? Download our new Activity Pack and get your class thinking about how what they eat affects the planet.

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Case studies

Kemi Atijosan - Eagle Solutions Services Limited

London

Find out more about Olukemi (Kemi) Atijosan and her work as a Food for Life Partnership Advisor and managing director of Eagle Solutions Services Limited. Through her work Kemi has helped a number of schools in London to transorm their food culture...

Getting good food out to all the kids

Nottingham County Council Catering

East Midlands

Nottinghamshire County Council Caterer was the first Local Authority caterer in the country to provide all its schools –mary and secondary - with Food for Life Silver food.