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Healthy eating in schools
Healthy eating in schools is currently very much in the news as schools across the country invent ways to encourage pupils to manage a nutritional diet. Several initiatives have been launched to achieve this and A2Z Core IT Solutions has worked with Cyclone Industries to develop the perfect interactive product to ensure pupils get the most out of school dinners. It’s a fingerprinting scanner that records details of what pupils buy in the canteen and then sends a written report to parents. So families can be involved and informed on the diet of their children and be reassured it’s not pizza and chips every day!
Biometric scanning is great fun as there is no need for swipe cards and
student’s press on their thumb prints onto an interface that produces the
read-out parents will be sent with their bill. It was partly inspired by Jamie
Oliver’s Feed Me Better campaign to promote better meals in school, resulting
in the acceleration of an increase in budget from the government. The £50,000
pound scanner has the added advantage of removing the need to carry cash to
school so improves student safety and reduces the risk cash can cause.
Roy Ballam, Senior Education Officer at the Nutrition Foundation said anything
that helps parents to know what is being served and what’s being chosen
supports the whole school approach to healthy eating. He said 'Parents by and
large have a great interest in what’s been eaten in school and sometimes have
no idea what might be traded by the pupils, e.g. swapping a banana for a
Penguin. Anything that gets parents’ involvement is good to go for.'
To deal with the parental concerns, the school nutrition action report becomes
a necessity. 'It’s important to engage parents and not let them get scared.
They’ve got other things in their lives and you must be realistic.', 'The
School Food Trust will be set up in September with the Taste of Success project
which will provide a reward process for the good work being done in schools as
teachers are doing their best to work hard with limited resources.'
The National Healthy School Standard was launched in 1999 to promote physical
and emotional well-being by equipping pupils with the skills and attitudes to
make informed decisions about their health. The biometric device can play an
important role in this; students will think more closely about their choice of
meal, particularly if they know it will be run past Mum and Dad at home!
A healthy school understands how important it is to invest in health, as it
will in turn raise levels of pupil achievement and improve standards of
learning. This is why Loughborough Grammar School backed the development of the
product and Humphrey Perkins High School in Barrow-upon-Soar is the first
school to adopted it, even before Jamie Oliver’s campaign! They all recognised
the need to provide a school meal system that is conducive to improving
learning.
Every local Education Authority is working with the Primary Care Trusts to
maintain a local healthy schools programme. A healthy school is one that is
successful in helping pupils to do their best and build on their achievements.
It is committed to ongoing improvement and development.It can help schools to
achieve Healthy School status as it will provide evidence impacting against
health inequalities and social exclusion. The Biometric Fingerprint scanner
will help fulfil these aims. It can help schools to achieve Healthy School
status as it will provide evidence impacting against health inequalities and
social exclusion.
Jane Roberts of the Leicestershire Healthy Schools Team said the scanner was a
very unique and original idea. 'It emphasises a healthy whole school policy
towards improving the physical and emotional well-being of children. It shares
the aims of the Food in Schools Toolkit that is being disseminating to promote
breakfast clubs, healthy cooking and a positive school dinning environment.'
the device is useful in that encourages parents to be involved, something they
are all working together to achieve.
Healthy eating in schools is currently very much in the news as schools across the country invent ways to encourage pupils to manage a nutritional diet. Several initiatives have been launched to achieve this and A2Z Core IT Solutions has worked with Cyclone Industries to develop the perfect interactive product to ensure pupils get the most out of school dinners. It’s a fingerprinting scanner that records details of what pupils buy in the canteen and then sends a written report to parents. So families can be involved and informed on the diet of their children and be reassured it’s not pizza and chips every day!
Biometric scanning is great fun as there is no need for swipe cards and
student’s press on their thumb prints onto an interface that produces the
read-out parents will be sent with their bill. It was partly inspired by Jamie
Oliver’s Feed Me Better campaign to promote better meals in school, resulting
in the acceleration of an increase in budget from the government. The £50,000
pound scanner has the added advantage of removing the need to carry cash to
school so improves student safety and reduces the risk cash can cause.
Roy Ballam, Senior Education Officer at the Nutrition Foundation said anything
that helps parents to know what is being served and what’s being chosen
supports the whole school approach to healthy eating. He said 'Parents by and
large have a great interest in what’s been eaten in school and sometimes have
no idea what might be traded by the pupils, e.g. swapping a banana for a
Penguin. Anything that gets parents’ involvement is good to go for.'
To deal with the parental concerns, the school nutrition action report becomes
a necessity. 'It’s important to engage parents and not let them get scared.
They’ve got other things in their lives and you must be realistic.', 'The
School Food Trust will be set up in September with the Taste of Success project
which will provide a reward process for the good work being done in schools as
teachers are doing their best to work hard with limited resources.'
The National Healthy School Standard was launched in 1999 to promote physical
and emotional well-being by equipping pupils with the skills and attitudes to
make informed decisions about their health. The biometric device can play an
important role in this; students will think more closely about their choice of
meal, particularly if they know it will be run past Mum and Dad at home!
A healthy school understands how important it is to invest in health, as it
will in turn raise levels of pupil achievement and improve standards of
learning. This is why Loughborough Grammar School backed the development of the
product and Humphrey Perkins High School in Barrow-upon-Soar is the first
school to adopted it, even before Jamie Oliver’s campaign! They all recognised
the need to provide a school meal system that is conducive to improving
learning.
Every local Education Authority is working with the Primary Care Trusts to
maintain a local healthy schools programme. A healthy school is one that is
successful in helping pupils to do their best and build on their achievements.
It is committed to ongoing improvement and development.It can help schools to
achieve Healthy School status as it will provide evidence impacting against
health inequalities and social exclusion. The Biometric Fingerprint scanner
will help fulfil these aims. It can help schools to achieve Healthy School
status as it will provide evidence impacting against health inequalities and
social exclusion.
Jane Roberts of the Leicestershire Healthy Schools Team said the scanner was a
very unique and original idea. 'It emphasises a healthy whole school policy
towards improving the physical and emotional well-being of children. It shares
the aims of the Food in Schools Toolkit that is being disseminating to promote
breakfast clubs, healthy cooking and a positive school dinning environment.'
the device is useful in that encourages parents to be involved, something they
are all working together to achieve.