Education

The kitchen at Tredworth Junior School, Gloucester, served 243 salads, while Arthur Dye Primary School in Cheltenham dished up 99 salads, reported the Gloucestershire Council. Kirsty Pritchard, senior

Contract caterer for education, Chartwells, joined forces with Kent Works and Canterbury College to host a two-day event for catering, hospitality and cookery students in Key Stages 3 and 4 and NVQ le

Durham and Newham will provide universal Free School Meals (FSMs) to all primary school children and Wolverhampton will pilot an extension of the current eligibility criteria.

80 pupils from Southbroom Junior School in Devizes, Wiltshire, enjoyed MSC certified lunchtime fish dishes including a salmon starter and breaded pollack, all featuring the blue fish-tick logo of the

Let's Get Cooking clubs, backed by £20 million from the Big Lottery Fund, are a fun way to give children and their families the confidence to cook nutritious and tasty meals from scratch.

School nutrition employees must balance many roles and follow numerous federal, state and local regulations to ensure safe and healthy meals are available in schools.

The campaign's new TV ad, which launches today, urges families get up and about more in an effort to cut levels of obesity.

The deal worth £5.4 million over two years will see Chartwells catering for pupils at 94 primary schools in the county.

The Fuel 4 Kids, which launched in September 2008, has won the Local Authority award in this year's National Breakfast Club Plus Awards, run by ContinYou and supported by Kellogg's. The award recognis

BBC sports reporter Alison Walker was a key speaker at the launch, motivating the students with her talk on Healthy Active Lifestyles. Until the end of the school term, each S1 Form Class will work to