Canteen News
Congratulations!
I’m very pleased to let you know that Boat Harbour Primary School has earned a SILVER SmartFood Award for 2021. Well done to Mrs Susan Bowers and the wonderful canteen volunteers for preparing and serving up a tasty and nutritious range of canteen-made meals and snacks throughout the year. The SmartFood Award (formally the Canteen Accreditation Program) is a best practice model for food service management that recognises a school’s dedication to the health and wellbeing of its school community. I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the wonderful work that Mrs Bowers, the canteen volunteers, School Business Manager Elizabeth Knight, Teacher Merian Ellis and your school community have done to earn this award – it is a fantastic achievement!
Four very important things were completed in order for your school to achieve the SILVER SmartFood Award. These were:
- Boat Harbour Primary School created a set of guidelines and procedures about how your canteen is managed.
- Your canteen meets your local council food safety requirements. This means that your canteen is a safe and hygienic place in which to store, prepare and sell food and drinks.
- Mrs Bowers tried out many different options and developed a menu that includes a range of fresh and tasty ‘everyday’ food and drinks, many of which were made from scratch in the canteen such as wraps, pizzas and salad bowls with seasonal specials like sushi or hot pastas and soups.
- Boat Harbour Primary school submitted 2 activities that were carried out within your school community that promoted healthy eating and sourcing produce from the school food garden.
I would also like to acknowledge the wonderful efforts of the volunteer breakfast club team who have been able to provide students with warm toast and a variety of fresh fruits at least three times a week. This is a very valuable addition to Boat Harbour Primary’s whole school approach to eating well. We look forward to continuing to work with and support the new school canteen food team at Boat Harbour Primary into 2022, and beyond!
With best wishes from Tina Ingram and the School Food Matters Team.