Eating Well - Living Well Schools Bradford

What we do:

This Living Well Schools priority will enable school leaders to build a culture of Eating Well within and beyond the school day, focusing on the provision of high-quality food, education, and messaging. Adopting a holistic approach to school food and nutrition will also include tackling food insecurities for children and families, supporting the community to access the support they need and reduce the associated barriers to learning. With a focus on the farm-to-fork process through growing & cooking in school, all children and young people will be afforded opportunities to develop positive relationships with food through enriching experiences, whilst building a culture of sustainability.

How we do it:

Living Well Schools provide support to embed Eating Well throughout the school day. Schools are catalysts for impacting children and young people’s dietary intake, through a positive and health promoting setting of high-quality food, education and messaging.

Schools can build a culture of Eating Well by addressing a renewed focus on school food and utilising food to enrich the school day. Whether that is running a dining hall review, integrating food into the English curriculum, cooking more savoury dishes during D&T, starting a growing club, planning a farm visit or hosting your first school nutrition action group meeting.

Through adopting this holistic approach, schools can instil lifelong positive relationships with food and health for children and young people and take their practical skills and nutrition knowledge beyond the school gates.

Why we do it:

Living Well Schools supports the vision of the Bradford Good Food Strategy by integrating the four key outcomes: creating an Eating Well culture, tackling food insecurities, community-led food growing and a sustainable food system for all, throughout the whole school approach to Eating Well and putting schools at the heart of communities.

Our Vision is: “To put accessible and nutritious food for all at the heart of Bradford’s policies and actions. We do this to reduce health and social inequalities, improve health and wellbeing, and create a secure and sustainable food system that works for people and strengthens our local economy”.