Food for Life Partnership

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St Gregory & St Patrick's Catholic Community School

Primary

This school is achieving SILVER

SILVER schools serve school meals on plates, not flight trays, and a range of locally sourced and organic items are served. All chicken, bacon and sausages served are Freedom Food certified or free range and no fish from unsustainable sources is served. The school has a cooking club, and pupils get to cook with and eat the produce grown in the school growing area. Parents and the wider community get involved in food education via food-themed events.

Our Mission

St Gregory & St Patrick's Catholic Community school is Committed to providing high quality food for its pupils and the local community. The school is an in-house provider of meals and is fortunate in that the kitchen is run by two very able trained cooks .The school  has a very high uptake of school meals with over 98% of children recieving a meal. The kitchen also provide breakfast and food for our berfore and after school clubs. The school invites parents from a class inturn to share a meal with their children each week. On Fridays the school cooks meals for the local community and after the meals visitors are entertained by the children through song or dance.Cumbria County Council recognises the school as a beacon of excellence and encourages other school to visit.

The school has plans  to spend £100,000 upgrading the kitchen so that we can become a community facility serving local needs. in 2008 the school intends to make sandwiches for our parents and local people. We already provide traybakes and cakes for local people. In the future the school could provide meals at weekends and holidays.

The School Kitchen is viewed as a central and important part of the school where the principles of food for life are encouraged and positive changes have resulted with  a change in the eating habits of our children who from 2008 will range from age 2 to7. The school links food to the curriculum and we have been recently re-accredited with The Healty Schools Award.