Here at Woodend we have a Healthy Eating Committee. At our first committee meeting for the year, we worked on defining our purpose and directions. This is our purpose:
Healthy eating and drinking at Woodend Primary School is about improving the health and wellbeing of our children. We can do this by:
- Providing healthy food and beverages and support students and families to make better choices about their consumption
- Promoting nutritious and healthy choices
We reference the Government of South Australia’s Right Bite Healthy Food and Drink Supply Strategy for South Australian Pre schools and Schools to ensure we are consistent with the recommended guidelines.
Our committee consists of canteen staff, parent volunteers and representatives of school leadership. Student volunteers support the canteen program. We also consult with students during times of planning and decision making.
We avoid marketing commercialized products where possible. We aim to promote produce that is freshly made to families.
In our efforts to continually improve our choices on our ‘Woodies Goodies’ menu we will let you know items that we have available or are about to trial. We are always in need of volunteers to assist us prepare more nutritious and healthy choices. If there is any day of the week that you can spare 15 minutes, 30, 45, 60 or 90 minutes – any amount of time, we would be very grateful of your help. All you need to do is call in at our canteen or let front office staff know of your interest. Our friendly canteen staff are: Helen Lewis, Di Thomas and Lee Francis. They would be very welcoming and happy to see you volunteer in the canteen!
Two recent snack items we have available are:
- Fruit salad cups – a variety of fresh seasonal fruits in a cup $1.00
- Yoghurt cups – low fat vanilla flavoured yoghurt topped with fresh fruit 50c
You can encourage your child to buy one and give them a try! They are nice and cold and taste delicious especially on a warm day. We look forward to seeing you as a volunteer and or your child coming to buy at our canteen.
March 8, 2016 at 3:55 pm
Sounds great, well done 🙂
March 10, 2016 at 10:32 pm
Thank you for your encouragement Heidi. We will continue to make improvements.
March 10, 2016 at 10:05 am
I like the sound of healthy eating at the school. Makes us more of a healthy school rather than a non-healthy school.
March 10, 2016 at 10:20 pm
Thank you for your feedback Mason. We do want to promote this about our school and you can encourage friends to try the healthy options at our canteen. We need to spread the word.
March 10, 2016 at 10:07 am
Does this mean that there is going to be more healthy foods and drinks than before???
March 10, 2016 at 10:28 pm
Yes there will Josh! Take a look in the canteen and ask the canteen staff to talk through the changes.
March 10, 2016 at 10:07 am
Really Nice thx 😍😍😍🏅🏅🏅🏅
March 10, 2016 at 10:08 am
The canteen should take the price down of the fruit cups so that when kids have spare change they think ” hey, I have enough for a fruit cup.
March 10, 2016 at 10:29 pm
I will take this to our Healthy Eating Committee Toby. Thank you for your idea.
March 10, 2016 at 10:12 am
I like the idea of more healthy food
March 10, 2016 at 10:30 pm
Thanks for your feedback Josh. The Healthy Eating Canteen committee are doing their best to make improvements.