Date: 22/7/2008
The School Nutrition Award for Tower Hamlets is now entering its 6th year. It was developed by Children's Services Contract Services (the in-house school meal providers of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council) and the Community Dietitian (part of Bart’s and the London NHS Trust Nutrition and Dietetics Department). The award has been gaining increasing recognition within the primary and secondary schools in Tower Hamlets.
The award recognises the ‘whole school approach’ to food and nutrition issues within the local schools, providing recognition to the individual school catering service and nutrition-related activities e.g. breakfast clubs, grow your own garden, water provision, organised within the school.
The Conclusion
The school offers a breakfast club to all the pupils, they also offer after school cookery club, farm visits and a garden area growing a huge range of vegetables. There were also half a dozen three week old chicks as part of a hatch and breed scheme to allow children to understand about the life cycle.
The inspection team particularly noted good food and that the children were enjoying their food.
Two years ago the team achieved a Silver Award and this year they managed to maintain their standards and have won the Silver Award again.
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