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With current challenges needing greater flexibility, this new award will recognise and celebrate the progress schools and nurseries have made despite including tighter budgets, less time, and lower capacity.

The Food for Life approach to delivering healthy and sustainable school meals should be mandated nationally, a recent major farming event has been told. Soil Association Head of Policy Rob Percival joined celebrity chef Tommi Miers on a panel at Groundswell farming festival that discussed how schools should be serving better food produced by British farmers.

Food for Life schools in Medway have been busy growing and harvesting this spring and summer, whether on classroom windowsills, raised beds in the school garden or even in forest spaces.

Whether it’s working with the school caterer to ensure at least 75% of the menu is freshly prepared, or working with pupils to grow fruit and veg in the school garden, over 700 schools and nurseries in the UK are working towards a more healthy and sustainable future with Food for Life.

What a fantastic achievement for Birch Wood Area SEND School, who have achieved their Food for Life Silver Award!

Congratulations to Inspire Academy, who are the first school in Medway to receive the Food for Life Bronze School Award. 

How did you celebrate World Pulses Day? Find out how six skillful cooks from Leicestershire did.