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Summer 2021
Nottingham Catering
Parents Newsletter
It has been brilliant to see all the children back in school after the lockdowns we have
had this year and we hope the children enjoy their summer holidays.
In this issue we want to tell you about our exciting food displays and tasters for the
“Eat Them to Defeat Them,” campaign, TastEd (Taste Education) and lots more. We
also have some job opportunities.
Our catering teams are very excited about starting another academic year in Septem-
ber; we have new menus, exciting new theme days and a range of activities all hap-
pening for the new school year.
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Swap It campaign
Carbon Neutral Nottingham 2028
As part of Nottingham City Council’s commit-
ment to becoming carbon neutral we have
engaged with three Nottingham Trent Univer-
sity (NTU) students that have worked with us
for a 16 week placement. They have looked
We ran a ‘Swap It’ campaign in May encourag- at ways to measure our carbon footprint,
ing children to swap their usual meat school identified areas needing change and are
meal for a vegetarian meal to help reduce going to suggest possible solutions.
carbon dioxide emissions.
Rufford Primary School achieved 431 swaps Food Vouchers and Free Fun
over the course of a month thanks to the
brilliant work of their catering team. The FREE Fun and Food is on offer this Summer
pupils at Rufford Primary regularly eat vege- for children entitled to Free School Meals.
tarian meals as our catered schools usually Supermarket e-vouchers will be sent out
have one meat free day a week throughout through schools offering £15 per pupil
the year. for each week of the holidays. Please ask
your school for details.
Kumar Murugan, who works at Rufford Prima-
ry School as a chef supervisor said: “I like to Holiday Activity Clubs will be providing FREE
engage with the children and I always have a outdoor activity sessions and
chat with them when they come up to the packed lunches during the holidays - find a
hatch so when I told them about ‘Swap It’ a session near you by visiting
lot of the children really got on board with it.”
Read more about our Quorn Swap It cam-
paign at
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We have some very exciting
displays and tasters for schools
as part of the Eat Them to
Defeat Them campaign to get
our children eating more veg.
Tomatoes transformed into spiders, evil peppers turned
into pumpkin masks and veg in all sorts of other guises
have been appearing in participating schools.
Featuring the vegetable of the week looking and tasting
not quite like they’ve ever known it before, the children
at Welbeck Primary School have been enjoying six weeks
of displays and tasters.
Deputy Head, Ronan Cobbe said: “Eat Them to Defeat
Them has been a roaring success at Welbeck! It’s given
the children the chance to try veg in lots of different
taster dishes and the majority of the children have been
trying the foods and collecting rewards.
Ronan added: “Children have been tracking how much veg they eat at home too. The displays
have been really creative and fun and shown how veg look as they grow.”
Veg character, Podster the pea came along to peas week where children enjoyed savoury pea
pancakes, chilli and black pastry tarts with mint pea topping, sugar snap peas with a sea-
soned pea dip and stir fry with spring onion, chilli, peas and sugar snap pea.
Here’s what the children had
to say:
“I love Eat Them to Defeat Them!”
“I don’t usually like veg but when the
school makes them I like them.”
“The spiders were great and the peppers
looked scary with the eyes.”
“I have to eat my veg to get my stickers!”
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TastEd (Taste Education) Our Food Development Chefs are bringing a
fresh fruit and vegetable experience into the
classroom.
Encouraging children to explore food by
looking, smelling, touching, listening to and
tasting the food, TastEd (Taste Education)
classes inspire children to be adventurous
with trying new flavours.
The children, turned ‘Food Explorers’ in
reception classes at Seely Primary School
have been enjoying an hour of Taste Ed for
six days.
Rebecca Hughes, Design and Technology
Lead, said: “I think the children absolutely
loved TastEd. They could not stop talking
about it during the week and they are still
talking about it now.
To focus on listening, the ‘Food Explorers’ put
a piece of celery in their mouths and then
covered their ears so they could listen to the
noise it made as they ate it, next up was
banana and sugar snap peas.
Food Development Chef, Beth Marriot sparked the children’s imagination with questions about
the sounds and the tastes of the food. The children shared mini white boards to write down
what they thought: “Crunchy, salty, squishy, slimy, sweet and delicious!”
Teachers and parents have noticed the difference. Rebecca said:
“I have noticed that the children will now explore more food at lunch time, and they will at least
try something new. Even if they do not like it, they are proud they have tried it. Parents have told
me children have used the tasting skills when eating their dinner and a few parents said their
child tried a new food they would not touch before.”
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Space Day – 20th May 2021
We hope the children enjoyed Space Day!
“It’s been great to see the Catering Teams getting on
board with Space Day, their cakes and biscuits were very
inventive,” - Lisa Fox, Education Catering Manager.
We had some great feedback from Natasha Kelly, the
Head Teacher at Rise Park, she said, “The catering team
worked so hard on Space Day and the days preceding it,
to make Space day a real success in school.”
Upcoming Theme Days New Menus for September
We are working on an exciting “Welcome Our Development Chefs have been out
Back” theme for September and supporting taste testing the food and getting feedback
all schools with welcoming the children back so they can put together our exciting new
to school meals and we’ll be celebrating the menu, with a return to more warm meals for
Goose Fair on 2nd October 2021, as well as the autumn term. We’ve been sharing them
Bonfire Night, Diwali and Christmas. school and pupils as it’s a great way to
engage with your children to get their feed-
New Starters back.
We’re looking forward to welcoming the new Food for Life Served Here
pupils starting school in September and have
got our starter packs ready for them. We’re delighted to have been awarded Gold
and Silver Food for Life Awards this year
Job Opportunities showing that our school food is healthy,
ethical, and uses some local and organic
We regularly have opportunities available ingredients. We received the silver award in
for people to join our school catering teams 57 school catering sites and have received
at https://jobs.emss.org.uk/ the gold award in two of our school catering
sites as we worked in partnership with the
school to gain their gold FFL certification.
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Free School Meals
With Eat Culture lunchtime is the favourite part of the day! It’s a great way of get-
ting children into healthy eating habits and trying new foods.
Children have many choices, like lighter options, traditional roasts and delicious
new dishes. All schools offer a vegetarian option every day and many of the city’s
schools provide a halal menu.
Our catering teams will ensure that there is something for everyone and children
have unlimited salad, bread, fresh fruit and water at each sitting.
Your child can enjoy free school meals if they are in:
• reception class
• year 1
• year 2
And if you are in receipt of certain benefits your child can
continue to have free school meals when they move into
Key Stage 2.
It’s easy to apply for Free School Meals.
Apply Here:
https://www.gov.uk/apply-free-school-meals
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