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School Council Initiates Improved School Menu by Matt Lent

last modified 06 Mar 2008 at 12:59PM

What was going on

No picture currently available Tenby Junior’s School Council, in Pembrokeshire, decided to invite the school cook along to a meeting so that they could ask questions about how their school meals and portion sizes were decided upon.

What we did

The local authority sent a food procurement officer along to the school to discuss with the school council the possible options for changing the menu. A decision was made along with the school council that they would trial a ‘Funky Food’ menu, which included sandwiches, sausage rolls and fruit. This option however was not very well received by the pupils and it was therefore not continued after the trial period. As a ‘health promoting school’ Tenby have now decided to pilot a new scheme and a whole new menu is being developed.

What changed

The food will be bought from local producers and will be freshly prepared in the school. Samples of the new menu will be brought in to Tenby Junior in order for the school council to try it out and give feedback to the local authority and the rest of the school before the new menu is finalised.

Issue: School environment/facilities

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