Food for Life Programme

Food for Life brings schools and their surrounding communities together around the core ethos of healthy, tasty and sustainable food.

The programme is about more than just food on the plate; it considers where food comes from and how it’s grown, cooked and experienced.

It is about developing a good food culture by understanding how food is grown, learning about sustainability, making connections with health and the impact we make on the environment, and caring about what we eat and how it was produced or reared.

The more we understand about where our food comes from, how we farm and process it, how we cook and eat it, the more we can build a good food culture, and educate future generations to respect our food, our health and our wider environment.

We are at the start of our journey to achieve the bronze award which will support us in taking on a whole school approach. This approach will see us grow our own food; organise trips to farms; source food from local producers; set up school farmers’ markets; hold community food events; provide cooking and growing clubs for pupils and their families; serve freshly prepared, well-sourced meals and provide an attractive dining environment so lunchtimes are a positive feature of the school day.