Education

ATL surveyed 870 teachers, lecturers, support staff and school leaders in schools across the United Kingdom about food in schools.

To date, it's proved such a winning combination that the number of primary children sitting down to school meals shot up to 48.7% in February - a 3% increase on December 2009. Lin O'Brien, head of Her

Twenty eight Year 8 pupils were asked to design and develop a nutritious dish as part of the school's National Healthy School Programme.

The lunch-time birthday parties have so far proved extremely popular with the students; there is a special area for party members, who can sign a birthday card which has been signed by all of Cucina's

This competition has been created to celebrate the art of letter writing and is open to students at schools and colleges across the UK.

The school is one of 10 schools from the Rotherham area chosen to take part in the Trust's consultancy project, which aims to evaluate the impact of effective marketing on school meal uptake.

The contract is worth in excess of £750k and has an option to extend by a further two years in 2012. This is the first Local Education Authority (LEA) contract DBC has been awarded under the Scottish

The Strategy sets the agenda for school food for the next four years and is all-encompassing covering breakfast clubs, mid-morning breaks, dinners and cookery clubs.

The only contract caterer to be listed, Brookwood ranked 54th in the list, up from the 81st position the company achieved in 2008 award. Among the reasons the company won its place is the effort inves

The challenge, involving 160 first year pupils, was this year supported by the school meals provider Pasta King.