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03 April 2025
Congratulations to Holy Cross Primary School in Leicestershire, who have achieved the Food for Life Bronze Award!
Holy Cross enrolled into the Food for Life programme in July 2024 and since then have been hard at work improving their school food culture. Their first step was to set up a SNAG – a school nutrition action group – made up of pupils and staff who want to effect change.
Staff and pupils at the school receiving their award.
In November they celebrated Cook and Share by creating a recipe book, which featured recipes from pupils and their families, and distributing it to pupils and their families via ClassDojo. Since then, they’ve been encouraging pupils to try out recipes at home with their siblings and parents.
Alongside these milestones, the school has been introducing growing and cooking activities throughout the school day across all year groups. Pupils have been planting coriander seeds in paper pots and are looking forward to cooking with fresh coriander and trying it as part of their school meals. One pupil shared: "I have enjoyed the growing, planting and learning about compost."
This spring, the school will be taking part in Plant and Share, a Food for Life campaign which provides resources and advice to get everyone growing. So far, they’ve created a display to highlight the benefits of growing and have been sharing radish and coriander seeds as well as resources on making a ‘rot bot’ – a mini composter – and identifying bees.
As well as the direct impact of this work, Alison Danvers, the Food for Life lead at Holy Cross, has also been pleased to see teachers and staff improving their technical skills through their work with Food for Life, such as creating PowerPoints to share news about good food and deliver assemblies to the whole school with the SNAG. She also shared: “The Food for Life work has made a difference by teaching [our] children where their food comes from."
Their SNAG display.