Schools celebrate achieving ‘Food for Life’ awards again thanks to Educaterers!
Brownsover Community Infant School in Rugby is just one of a number of Warwickshire schools that is celebrating retaining its ‘Food for Life’ award from the Soil Association, after another successful inspection of the menu offered to pupils by school caterers, Educaterers.
The school retained its Gold Award from the ‘Food for Life’ scheme in recognition of the fantastic work they do to provide healthy school meals, great lunchtimes, and food education.
Following inspection by the Soil Association, the Educaterers menu offered to all infant, junior and primary schools retained its Silver Award status and the menu offered to all secondary schools retained Bronze Award, in recognition of the fact that Educaterers’ school catering teams serve local, fresh food made with quality ingredients, prepared and served in a way that takes school pupils’ health and well-being seriously.
This means that if schools have signed themselves up to achieve ‘Food for Life’ accreditation and Educaterers provide their meals, they automatically meet the criteria for the menu element of the Bronze or Silver standards – and Educaterers can work with schools to meet the Gold Award standard, as they have done with Brownsover Community Infant School.
Educaterers work with ‘Food for Life’ accredited suppliers, such as Lower Hurst Farm in Derbyshire, who supply the catering company with organic beef.
Terry Tredget, Managing Director of Educaterers, said: “’Food for Life’ is a brilliant scheme that recognises those schools, caterers and their suppliers that go the extra mile to provide healthy school meals and give pupils a great lunchtime experience.
“We’re delighted that Educaterers and our schools have been recognised by the Soil Association once again and offer our huge congratulations to the management and teaching staff, pupils and our catering team at Brownsover Community Infant School for retaining their Gold Award.
“When we source our ingredients, we seek out trusted suppliers to provide the freshest, most nutritious and highest quality produce available.”
The ‘Food for Life’ scheme rewards schools and their caterers for using locally sourced and ethical ingredients, that support the local economy and protect the environment for the future.
‘Food for Life’ standards are set by an independent Standards Committee, which is made up of industry experts from a wide range of sectors, and the award is inspected annually, during a visit from one of the Soil Association’s inspection team.
For more information on how your school can become ‘Food for Life’ certified, visit https://www.foodforlife.org.uk/catering/food-for-life-served-here/schools and email contactus@educaterers.co.uk to find out how Educaterers could support you.