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Serving Free School Meals at Chingford Foundation School!!
“We fed the whole school for the week free!
We served well over 4,000 main meals and 1,500 sandwiches, 1500 baguettes, 5,000 cookies, 2,000 hot desserts and boxes of fruit and water!
The value of meals served was £13,500 that week – a record! Compared to typical sales of approx £5,000
Walthamstow Borough Council funded the whole week and it was a great success bar the chaos in the dining room with such large numbers.
Paula and her team did extremely well and I also helped on the first day.
I crock sealed 1,600 cookies within 3 hours.
God only knows how Paula managed that week – I am extremely proud of her and the team. I am delighted that we as Pabulum did extremely well and coped brilliantly.”
Carol Smith, the Deputy Head, was very happy and proud of us.
Vasos Lazarou, Operations Manager
About the Million Meals campaign
A revolution is underway in school food. Since September 2006, every pupil taking a school lunch is guaranteed, by law, a balanced, nutritious meal.
We now need to make sure they are eating them and the 'Million Meals' campaign aims to do just that.
Stay on Site Guide
The School Food Trust now has a published a guide for introducing a Stay on Site Policy in your school for Million Meals schools.
For many schools a stay-on-site policy has provided a number of opportunities to support improvements in the health and well-being of children and young people. These benefits include increased access to a healthier diet, improved afternoon attendance and increasing use of lunchtime clubs, all of which have a positive impact.
Not a school - you can still register your support for the campaign and help us to help schools make sure that more children are heating healthy, nutritious food and fulfilling their potential.
"The health and wellbeing of children is a passion we all share. That's why I am giving the Million Meals campaign my full backing and I urge all schools to join up"
The Rt.Hon. Ed Balls MP
Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families