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Leftover lunches are offered to pupils who want seconds and the rest are given to children to take home. “We can hold our heads high knowing it's gone home and there’s an opportunity for a family member to enjoy.” She said the lunches also gave children more concentration for learning in the afternoon. “It creates excitement and people are on a level playing field. No-one is coming with things for lunch like birthday cake from the night before. It’s quite uplifting.” The school supplies a weekly list to the providers with dietary requirements, including gluten free, vegetaria...

DAVID UNWIN/Stuff Compass Group sector lead for school lunches Ross Maclean and catering supervisor Elisa Metcalf inspect a container of lunches destined for a Manawatū school as part of the Government's healthy lunches in schools scheme. Providing thousands of lunches a day under the government’s lunches-in-schools scheme is a massive operation, so how do the meals get from the kitchen to the playground? Paul Mitchell finds out. The Ministry of Education’s Ka Ora, Ka Ako Healthy School Lunches programme, which expanded into Manawatū schools in February, aims to provide kids with a h...

“We encourage all the students to try it,” Fennessey said. Tina Johnson/Supplied Senior students at Opihi College tuck into the free school lunches. He said the healthy menu catered to different dietary requirements and the provider adjusted their delivery time to fit in with school activities. Staff members were surprised the children ate Mexican-style cauliflower and chipotle tacos which are quite spicy, and Japanese katsu chicken salad. “It’s really good to see students sharing the same meal, so everyone is the same.” JOHN BISSET/Stuff The primary school has a roll of about ...

Ross Intermediate School principal Wayne Jenkins said the programme was a positive step towards reducing barriers children faced when learning. “We know that a healthy, well-fed child learns better. This programme is also introducing students to a range of healthy and nutritious foods.” When Stuff visited Ross Intermediate at lunchtime on Wednesday, the supply of chicken buns and bananas were snapped up quickly, with children coming back to finish off the leftovers. Jenkins felt the school could best serve its pupils and community by setting up a kitchen and making the food itself. D...

Commercial contractors win school lunch tender 20 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM 5 minutes to read Eat My Lunch, whose chef Michael Meredith was pictured at Māngere Central School, is one of only two non-commercial operators to win new contracts for free school lunches. Photo / Jason Oxenham. Big companies have won most of the contracts to provide free school lunches next year, despite ministers' initial hopes that the scheme would create jobs for small-scale community groups. The social enterprise Eat My Lunch and the University of Canterbury Students' Association, a registered charity, are the only no...