Tara Islam who is in P1 at Kinnaird Primary School in Larbert, Scotland, shares her favourite meal.
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Category: <span>health and wellbeing</span>
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2017 Blog – Celebrate 2017 International School Meals Day
By Dr. Janey Thornton, former Deputy Under-Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services, USDA. As I think back over my years serving as Deputy Under-Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services at the United States Department of Agriculture, some of my fondest memories center on International School Meals Day. I was so excited as I...
March 9, 2016March 9, 2018
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2016 – Westfield Primary, York, England
2016 – Westfield Primary, York, England Westfield Primary in York were happy to share their tasty, healthy school lunches!
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2016 – The Greenland Academy, Halifax, England
2016 – The Greetland Academy, Halifax, West Yorkshire, England Greetland Academy cooks more than 1,000 meals a day, all meeting the new food standards. It supplies 6 local primaries with dinners, has a gardening club run jointly with parents, and has held a farmers’ market selling the pupils’ produce. Headteacher Amanda Bennett explains how the West...
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2016 – Taylor Shaw Smoothie Bike Roadshow, UK
2016 – Taylor Shaw – Smoothie Bike Roadshow Background After the success of participating in ISMD 2015 by developing the ‘International Bake Off’ with our school in Sheffield connecting with two schools (Pakistan and America) via the British Schools Council Online, Taylor Shaw wanted to be involved in The fourth International School Meals Day theme...
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2016 – Food for Life
2016 – Food for Life Food for Life, a Soil Association initiative, aims to transform food culture and the food environment in schools, early years and health settings. A healthy, affordable and tasty school lunch was on the menu, thanks to groups of brilliant young people!
March 9, 2016March 9, 2018
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2016 – Cooking and growing together: Dumfries, Scotland
2016 – Cooking and growing together, Locharbriggs Primary School, Dumfries, Scotland The staff and pupils at Locharbriggs Primary School, Dumfries have been very busy learning with their school meals staff and wanted to share some of the photographs and comments. During the small group food sessions the Primary 6 children really worked hard when listening and following instructions...
March 6, 2016March 9, 2018
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2016 Blog – Are you ready for #ISMD2016?
I can’t quite believe that it’s almost the fourth International School Meals Day. March 3rd sees us celebrate this year’s theme promoting ‘Fresh Local and Healthy’ School Food. The diversity of school meal programmes around the world can be seen daily in the media and with the Global Goals http://www.globalgoals.org still in the minds of many governments, the...
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2016 Blog – Looking ahead to ISMD this year
Dr Alasdair Allan, MSP, Minister for Learning, Science and Scotland’s languages, talks about International School Meals Day 2016, on Thursday 3 March 2016. It has been a busy year since International School Meals Day 2015 when I visited Stornoway primary school to see the excitement of pupils getting ready for a skype call with Rosemary...
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2016 Blog – ISMD: in a word…
There’s one word I particularly want to focus on from the theme of International School Meals Day 2016, and it’s this: healthy. Because as the UK government gets ready to publish its national child obesity strategy, it’s worth remembering that one thing that connects schools across continents is that they have more contact with children...