Aim:  to encourage students to develop a life-long understanding of effective nutrition

Objectives

To achieve this aim, students are:

• Served a balanced and healthy meal at lunchtimes
• Able to choose the amount of food they need
• Encouraged to eat the food they have chosen:

• Infants:  Tutors ensure that all students eat a reasonable amount, communicate with parents if there are difficulties, restrict snacks if necessary.
• Primary:  As with Infants, but with increasing leniency towards the older groups.  Encouraged to ask for the appropriate amount to avoid waste.
• Secondary:  Given free choice as to how much they eat.  Encouraged to ask for the appropriate amount to avoid waste.

• Discouraged from eating too many snacks and sweet drinks at break times
• Given classes in nutrition via the Science and PSHE programme. 

We encourage Parents to:

• Send only small amounts of food for snacks
• Send healthy snacks
• Talk to their children about their likes and dislikes
• Eat communal meals with their children each evening
• Inform tutors of any specific dietary needs

We encourage Staff to:

• Model sensible nutrition patterns