A Healthy Week at the College
“Healthy eating is a way of life, so it’s important to establish routines that are simple, realistically, and ultimately livable.” Horace
The college community took part in The British Nutrition Foundation’s Healthy Eating Week from 12th-16th June 2023.
Activities included healthy snacks given out free to students in the atrium. These snacks included:
- Fruit kebabs
- Oranges and apples pieces
- Watermelon sticks
- Humous with pitta bread and vegetable sticks
- Rice cakes / bread sticks
- Flap Jacks
- Quern Nuggets with sauce
- Fruit infused water
The canteen did a fantastic job on offering healthy options each day to the students:
- Monday Breakfast / Break Vegetable Frittata / Lunch Chicken Fajita Pockets served on a bed of Salad / Vegetables
- Tuesday Breakfast / Break Beans on Toast / Lunch Veggie Dippers served with Sweet Potato Fries, BBQ Sauce Pots & Mixed Salad
- Wednesday Breakfast / Break Veggie Sausages / Lunch Chicken Skewers Served with Roasted Veg / Steamed Rice/Mixed Salad
- Thursday Breakfast / Break Mini Omelettes / Lunch Stuffed Mixed Peppers / Homemade Fish Pie topped with Sweet Potato Mash served with Vegetables/Mixed Salad
- Friday Breakfast / Break Scrambled Eggs / Lunch Vegetable Pizza served with Sweet Potato Fries Mixed Salad
Salad Pots, Fresh Fruit Salads, Yoghurts, Melon Slices, Grape Pots will be available all next week.
Alongside this the students from year 7-10 were given activities on healthy eating to complete in Form time.
The students really enjoyed the experience and none of the food went to waste.
Headteacher, Paul Stirling praised the initiative by saying “It can be difficult to avoid junk food, which makes maintaining a healthy diet more challenging. Even if you want to eat healthily, it can be enticing to choose something unhealthy.”
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