Education

Eight schools chefs cooked at the University of West London Ealing for a place in the final.

The session encouraged children to explore food through looking, smelling, touching and tasting. The TastEd classes aim to ‘inspire’ children to be adventurous and try new flavours.

The team received praise for their ‘innovative approach’ to delivering nutritious and well balanced meals to those within the education sector.

To celebrate the school hosted a themed lunch with frittata and cheese flan made using locally-sourced Leicestershire eggs.

From 7 June until mid-July all HC3S primary schools will be taking part in VegPower’s Eat Them To Defeat Them campaign, which aims to encourage children to consume more vegetables.

Helen Pountain joins as operations manager with the remit of managing and overseeing client sites including staffing, planning as well as training.

Pupils will be able to enjoy ‘Takeover Tuesdays’ which has a focus on offering ‘fun and exciting dishes’ with the aim of introducing children to new flavours.

Pisani, who made the switch to school catering in 2015, wants to improve the quality of school meals so that children can get excited about the food they eat.

The caterer partnered with Innocent Drinks, who run their ‘The Big Grow’ initiative, to provide schoolchildren with gardening kits, seed packs and gardening themed prizes.

Starting in June, Tilda in collaboration with ITV and Veg Power will be working with school caterers to educate children about the importance and benefits of eating vegetables.