Children's Dining Room Auditing Tool
A useful tool to support school councils or SNAG (School Nutrition Action Groups) to audit the current dining room provision.
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Resources
Healthy Lifestyles
There are a range of curriculum linked resources (Key Stage 1 to Key Stage 4) to support the promotion of Healthy Lifestyles, including resources around healthy eating and physical activity.
Resources to support parental engagement and pupil voice work are also available on request.
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Resources
Family Food Support Leaflet
This document outlines some of the free support available to help families eat well in Manchester.
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Free School Meals Promotional Poster
This poster promotes and signposts Free School Meals.
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Active Travel Passport
To encourage safer active travel to and from school, Healthy Schools are running a competition for KS2 and KS3.
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Breakfast Club Audit Tool
This tool supports you to assess how your current provision could be improved.
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Core competencies for children and young people aged 5-16 years
The competencies represent core skills and knowledge around the themes of Diet (food and drink), Consumer Awareness, Cooking (food preparation and handling skills), Food Safety and Active Lifestyles (physical activity) and provide an essential benchmark.
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Creating a Culture and Ethos of Healthy Eating - Practical Guidance
Practical guidance on a whole school approach to healthy eating by the School Food Plan.
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School Food Standards (2015) Practical Guide
A practical guide to the School Food Standards for schools, their cooks and caterers.
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Physical Activity Audit Tool
This tool supports your school to identify where you could improve your physical activity provision.
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Walk and Talk Video
A short video to encourage young people to go for a walk and chat to their friends at lunchtimes round the school grounds rather than sitting down.
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Dining room Experience Audit and Improvement Tool
This audit tool for primary and secondary schools can be used to assess which parts of your school's dining room experience are going well and which may need improving. It also gives ideas for improvement. 1:1 support can also be offered.
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Milk and Water only Toolkit
The toolkit aims to help support the health of pupils by promoting drinking water and low-fat milk as the default options within the school environment.
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Food and Drink Policy (Secondary)
A sample food and drink policy which can be adapted and personalised as necessary. 1:1 support meetings are also available. Packed lunch policy template also included.
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Food and Drink Policy (Primary)
A sample food and drink policy which can be adapted and personalised as necessary. 1:1 support meetings are also available. Packed lunch policy template also included.
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Physical Activity Policy
Template physical activity/active play policy
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Packed Lunch Leaflets
Ideas and suggestions for healthy packed lunches on a budget. Available in Urdu, Bengali, Arabic and English.
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Active Boardgames
These games are ideal for primary pupils to play during breaktimes or lunchtimes
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