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Healthy Eating

Schools provide a unique setting making a real difference to children’s nutrition, eating behaviours and overall wellbeing for later life.

In this section you will find information, support and excellent practical tools to help schools with all aspects of food and healthier eating including pupil leadership and pupil voice programmes.

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Resources

School Food Ambassador guidance and toolkit.

School Food Ambassador guidance and toolkit.

Over 30 practical resources to encourage pupils to take a proactive role in their school’s food provision to help improve quality, increase uptake of school meals and enhance the dining experience and school food beyond lunch times.
  • Cohorts: KS1, KS2, KS3, KS4, Primary, Secondary
  • Categories: Curriculum/teaching, Leadership/management, Policies
  • Audiences: Teachers, School Staff
  • Price: £35.00
Whole school food policy guidance

Whole school food policy guidance

This digital downloadable guidance booklet will support your school to develop or review a whole school food policy to support Ofsted judgement, meet compliances and ensure your school is working towards the outcomes of the Childhood Obesity Plan.

 
  • Cohorts: KS1, KS2, KS3, KS4, KS5, Primary, Secondary
  • Categories: Leadership/management, Policies
  • Audiences: Teachers, Governors, School Staff
  • Price: £35.00
Packed Lunch guidance and toolkit

Packed Lunch guidance and toolkit

Over 30 practical tools to help you really make a difference to the quality of packed lunches at your school.
  • Cohorts: Early Years, KS1, KS2, KS3, KS4, KS5, Primary, Secondary
  • Categories: Leadership/management, Policies
  • Audiences: Teachers, Governors, School Staff
  • Price: £35.00
Family Food Leaflet

Family Food Leaflet
  • Audiences: Teachers, Parents, Governors, School Staff
  • Price: Free
Sample primary and secondary breakfast menus

Sample primary and secondary breakfast menus
  • Cohorts: Early Years, KS1, KS2, KS3, KS4, KS5, Primary, Secondary
  • Audiences: Teachers, Governors, School Staff
  • Price: Free
Cooking in schools - Sample risk assessment

Cooking in schools - Sample risk assessment
  • Cohorts: Primary, Secondary
  • Categories: Curriculum/teaching
  • Audiences: Teachers, Governors, School Staff
  • Price: Free
A quick guide to increase your take up of school meals

A quick guide to increase your take up of school meals

This two page quick guide will give you low cost and no cost ideas for how you can encourage more pupils to take up the offer of a school meal.
  • Cohorts: Primary, Secondary
  • Categories: Leadership/management, Statutory Guidance, Planning, Policies
  • Audiences: Teachers, Parents, Governors, School Staff
  • Price: Free
HENRY Poster

HENRY Poster
  • Audiences: Teachers, Parents, Governors, School Staff
  • Price: Free
HENRY Leaflet

HENRY Leaflet
  • Cohorts: Primary
  • Audiences: Teachers, Parents, Governors, School Staff
  • Price: Free
HENRY 5-12 Referral form

HENRY 5-12 Referral form

Please complete this form on behalf of a parent/carer with their consent. 

It can also be completed by a parent/carer themselves 

All forms should be sent to HENRY5-12@leeds.gov.uk 

Please visit HENRY 5-12 Parent's page | School Wellbeing to find out more

  • Cohorts: KS1, KS2
  • Categories: Planning, Policies
  • Audiences: Teachers, Parents, Governors, School Staff
  • Price: Free
Secondary and Post 16 governors' guidance: Supporting the health and wellbeing of pupils.

Secondary and Post 16 governors' guidance: Supporting the health and wellbeing of pupils.

The aim of this guidance is to provide information to secondary and post 16 school governors/ trustees to support the health and wellbeing of pupils. It includes key information and guidance, governor checklists and questions for governors to ask in school. 
  • Categories: Leadership/management, Policies
  • Audiences: Governors
  • Price: Free with Active Schools + SLA subscription or Free with Leeds SLA subscription
Primary governors' guidance: Supporting the health and wellbeing of pupils.

Primary governors' guidance: Supporting the health and wellbeing of pupils.

The aim of this guidance is to provide information to primary school governors/ trustees to support the health and wellbeing of pupils. It includes key information and guidance, governor checklists and questions for governors to ask in school. 
  • Categories: Leadership/management, Policies
  • Audiences: Governors
  • Price: Free with Active Schools + SLA subscription or Free with Leeds SLA subscription
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Training

Free school meals and tackling poverty in schools

17 Jan 2024 13:00

Supporting schools to remove hunger as a barrier to learning.

  • Course type: Full day
  • Audience: Frontline staff, learning mentors, leadership, school business managers, pastoral staff, inclusion team etc.

Virtual: Free bitesize session: Promoting healthy eating behaviours through the primary curriculum

25 Jan 2024 15:45

An online workshop to support primary staff involved in the planning or delivery of the PSHE and/or Health Education curriculum.

  • Course type: Skype/online meeting
  • Audience: Senior Leaders, Teachers, and support staff from all primary settings.

eLearning: Free School Meals - core training

This training course is ideal for anyone who works with children and families.

  • Course type: Elearning
  • Audience: School administration, inclusion team, senior leadership, learning mentors, family support workers, catering staff, parent support advisors or school business managers etc.

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