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Take part in the Food for Life Partnership Roast Dinner Day - and you could be a record breaker!

18 August 2010

The Food for Life Partnership is inviting every school in England to take part in a Roast Dinner Day on Wednesday 29 September to celebrate all the fantastic work being done by the Cooks' Network and Food for Life Partnership schools. Find out how to be part of the celebration here.

Calling all dinner ladies, dinner men and public caterers!

15 July 2010
This year’s BBC Radio 4’s Food and Farming Awards are now open, and they are looking for nominations in the Best “Dinner Lady” / Public Caterer Award. So if you think your school cook or caterer fits the bill then get nominating! Deadline: 15th August.

Food for Life Partnership schools see school meal take-up increase by 16%

08 July 2010

As the School Food Trust publishes its official school meal figures today, the Food for Life Partnership annonces a 16% increase in school meal uptake in schools enrolled on the programme.

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Great Missenden primary school celebrates Silver award with Fern Britton

8 July 2010

Great Missenden Church of England Primary School in Buckinghamshire raised the bar on summer fêtes on Saturday 3 July, having invited former This Morning presenter Fern Britton to celebrate its Food for Life Partnership Silver award.

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Save our school dinners!

Join us in our campaign to save school dinners. If you care about the food your kids eat at school and want them to have the start in life they deserve, then please sign our online petition.

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Set up a food co-op or buying group

The Soil Association and Sustain, partners in the Making Local Food Work programme, have produced a handy fact sheet, providing you with all the information you need for setting up a food co-op or buying group in your school.

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Blog of the week - It's the season for tomatoes

Pupils at Seething and Mundham Primary School in Norwich have been busy growing tomatoes, and now it's time to cook them.

This is the last 'Blog of the week' for the summer term. Thank you to Organic Plants at Defland Nurseries for generously awarding gift vouchers to the winners.

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Case studies

Innovative initiatives to increase school meal uptake

Haworth Primary School

Yorkshire & Humberside

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Haworth Primary School situated in a rural village near the City of Bradford found increasing school meal uptake to be particularly challenging. Involving parents and educating the children about animal welfare are some of the initiatives the school introduced to ensure success.

Catering for change – How to adapt catering practices to the Bronze Criteria

Newland School for Girls

Yorkshire & Humberside

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Catering Manager Chris Johnson tells us how he overcame the challanges of meeting the Bronze criteria for Food Quality and Provenance, and what the benefits have been for Newland School for Girls in Hull.