Captains’ Meeting February 2015 Captains’ Meeting February 2015.
Knightswood Primary School House & Vice Captains present OUR FOOD JOURNEY 2014-2015.
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Transcript of Knightswood Primary School House & Vice Captains present OUR FOOD JOURNEY 2014-2015.
Our Story So Far
• We realised that there has been lots of wasted food and we wanted to change that.
• So far we have been weighing the wasted food every Tuesday and Thursday.
What have we found?
• We couldn’t see much of a pattern however when we encouraged children to eat up and especially when Mr Murphy did, we got less waste.
• We tried to get more adult volunteers and they help us now.
• When we have a house lunch we think there is less waste, we have a house lunch every month.
More information • We analysed the waste on one day and we
found that we could feed about 30 people a day from the waste.
Salad Milk Bread Fruit Soup Meat Potatoes PackagingNo of portionsPer average bag
2
21 12 2 1 6 6 50g
No of portions- 5 bags
per day
10 105 60 10 5 30 30 250g
No of people we could feed per day
30
No of people we could feed per week
150
No of people we could feed per year
6000
More information
• We found out that we could feed 150 people a week and 6000 people a year just from what we throw away.
More information • We had a ‘Clear a Plate’ day and this
resulted in MUCH less waste. • We will speak to everyone at assembly and
keep encouraging everyone to try hard.
Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Christmas Lunch
Day 6 Day 7 Day 8 Day 9 Day 10 Day 11 Day 12 Clear a Plate Day
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Waste (Kg)
Waste (Kg)
Our journey…
• We found out that most of the waste was fruit, so we made the fruit basket so that if someone didn’t want their piece of fruit in the basket and we would make it into frozen yoghurt or smoothies.
We are not encouraging the children to put it in there all the time we are just doing it in case they don’t want it. We want children to eat healthily.
The journey continues…
• We also know that lots of people throw out lots of milk everyday.
• 105 cartons were thrown out the day we looked at the waste.
• We have asked children not to take milk if they don’t want it.
• We have asked Mrs McIntosh to environmentally friendly cups so everyone can get water and we can recycle the cups.
…and continues
• BEBL (Better Eating Better Learning) is the website we post blogs on to explaining what we have found out.
• We have had multiple agency meetings.• We have House Lunches at the end of every
month to help reduce the waste.• We already have done PowerPoints on Food
Waste and Food Miles, showing all the children in the school these and how we all need to help.
Improvements so far
• We think that everybody is more aware of the need to cut waste.
• We don’t waste as much fruit and people get extra fruit.
• We think that the dinner ladies are going to help us by letting us help our self to some things.
• We have more adult coming to help us at lunch.• Some parents now know and have offered to help us.
Our plans…
• Our School Learning Community• Recipe Cards• Assembly Input• P7 Ambassadors• Up-to-date Information• Taste Experiences• Green Day (not the band) • Cordia• Let’s Grow • Paper• The wonderful BEBL
How healthy are the snacks you eat at break?This is how you might find out/help:• Older children could look at playtime and
give stickers• You could have fruit for sale at tuck shop
and healthy snacks
Portion 1
How healthy are your lunches?This is how you might find out/help:• Look at the menus and meet with the
dinner ladies• Look at what is being wasted and talk about
this with everyone• Plan to reduce the waste and recycle for
instance fruit• Encourage healthy packed lunches using
stickers and rewards
Portion 2
How do you know that children eat healthily in home?This is how you might find out/help:• Take an audit of a sample group, and find out what
children eat for, say breakfast• Include Healthy recipes in your newsletter/website• Invite parents and children to learn how to make for
example healthy soup• Talk about food in your lessons and at assemblies• Invite sports personalities to share their diet information
Portion 3
What other healthy food habits could help you become a really healthy school?• Encourage people to eat locally produced food and save
air miles• Encourage children and parents to use up leftovers• Encourage children and parents to learn to cook from
fresh by having taster sessions
Portion 4