Food for Life
Food for Life is a five year National Lottery funded initiative, led by the Soil Association, to transform food culture in schools. After a long selection process Heathwood was chosen as a Flagship school in December 2007.
This is an exciting opportunity for the whole school community and as a Flagship School we receive support and advice in developing all aspects of food culture within the school. This includes school meals, cookery, growing and farm visits.
The school has developed a ‘School Nutrition Action Group' (SNAG). This group involves children, parents, staff, governors, catering providers and representatives from the Food for Life Partnership. The purpose of the group is to give all stakeholders the opportunity to help shape and form the school's ethos and policy.
The group meets on a termly basis and any interested parents are invited to attend. The dates and times of meetings are in the school newsletter.
The Food for Life Partnership has a series of awards for schools to work towards and at the present time the school is working towards the Silver Award.
On the food for life website (link at the top of this page) you can track our progress towards the Bronze, Silver and Gold Awards, look at the Blog and photographs of cooking and growing in school and FFL Events and visits.
