Schools and nurseries across the Bath and North East Somerset area will be celebrating National School Meals Week from 31st October – 4th November.
Bath & North East Somerset Council’s school meals service, which supplies over 60 primary schools and nurseries, will mark the week by launching a new school menu.
Some schools will also be holding a Mexican themed day– featuring tacos, fajitas or burritos – on Tuesday 1st November.
The school meals service, which recently achieved the prestigious Silver Food For Life Catering Mark, will also be encouraging more families and children to try school meals for the first time.
Cllr Martin Veal (Conservative, Bathavon North), the Council’s Cabinet Member for Community Services, said: “This is about celebrating the quality of meals on offer in our schools and thanking all the staff for all the hard work they put in.
“The fact our school meals service holds a Silver Food for Life Catering Mark clearly shows that we are providing fresh, local, organic , healthy and ethically-sourced food to our school children.”
Local food suppliers are also being asked to get involved in a new school food contract, which makes it much simpler to supply fresh produce into schools.
The contract came into place in September, but local food suppliers can still get involved.
Find out more at http://www.bathnes.gov.uk/foodcontract or call Linda McCalister on 01225 477273.
