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Enfield Catering Services is awarded the Silver Catering Mark! Enfield Catering Services are pleased to announce that we have been awarded the prestigious Silver Catering Mark from the Soil Association for all its Primary and Special schools. Highfield school was chosen for the inspection and the Inspector praised our Chef Naz Unuvardir for the food served at lunchtime stating it was “healthy, colourful and with the best salad bar he had ever seen in a school”. What is included in the Silver award? Using seasonal and locally-sourced produce – for example many of our salad items are from the Lea Valley We only use free-range eggs, and they are locally- sourced Our food is freshly cooked on site Strong commitment to animal welfare and all the meat we purchase is classed under a Farm-assurance scheme Using MSC-certified fish (i.e. sustainable fish and not contributing to the problem of over-fishing) Using some organic foods e.g. our milk and our oats Healthy and nutritious menus which meet the nutrition standards Universal Infant Free School Meals What you need to know From September 2014, all pupils in Reception, Year 1 or Year 2 were able to receive a school meal at no cost to the parent or guardian. School meals in Enfield are healthy, tasty, social and fun. Choosing a school lunch for your child/children will help save you approximately £400 per year per child if you take up the offer. We are making an extra 4,000 meals a day across Enfield as a result of this! It is really important that you still register your child for Free School meals if your child is in Reception, Year 1 or Year 2 – to ensure the school receives extra funding for your child’s education (“The Pupil Premium”). It is still necessary to register your child for this even if you do not want your child to receive a free meal. Please ask at your child’s school office, or call Pupil Benefits on 020 8379 5367 if you haven’t already completed this form. Continued on page 2 www.myschoollunch.co.uk/enfield Introduction Welcome to the first edition of our newsletter and we hope you enjoy reading the articles which we want to share with you! Please note that we regularly update our website with news and this can be found at www.myschoollunch.co.uk/enfield Enfield School Meals Newsletter Enfield School Meals January 2015

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Page 1: Enfield School Meals Newsletter · New food labelling law From December 2014, all food businesses had to be able to provide information on 14 allergens (listed below) for every recipe

Enfield Catering Services is awarded the Silver Catering Mark! Enfield Catering Services are pleased to announce that we have been awarded the prestigious Silver Catering Mark from the Soil Association for all its Primary and Special schools. Highfield school was chosen for the inspection and the Inspector praised our Chef Naz Unuvardir for the food served at lunchtime stating it was “healthy, colourful and with the best salad bar he had ever seen in a school”.

What is included in the Silver award?• Using seasonal and locally-sourced produce – for

example many of our salad items are from the Lea Valley

• We only use free-range eggs, and they are locally-sourced

• Our food is freshly cooked on site• Strong commitment to animal welfare and all the meat

we purchase is classed under a Farm-assurance scheme

• Using MSC-certified fish (i.e. sustainable fish and not contributing to the problem of over-fishing)

• Using some organic foods e.g. our milk and our oats• Healthy and nutritious menus which meet the nutrition

standards

Universal Infant Free School Meals

What you need to knowFrom September 2014, all pupils in Reception, Year 1 or Year 2 were able to receive a school meal at no cost to the parent or guardian. School meals in Enfield are healthy, tasty, social and fun. Choosing a school lunch for your child/children will help save you approximately £400 per year per child if you take up the offer. We are making an extra 4,000 meals a day across Enfield as a result of this!

It is really important that you still register your child for Free School meals if your child is in Reception, Year 1 or Year 2 – to ensure the school receives extra funding for your child’s education (“The Pupil Premium”). It is still necessary to register your child for this even if you do not want your child to receive a free meal.

Please ask at your child’s school office, or call Pupil Benefits on 020 8379 5367 if you haven’t already completed this form.

Continued on page 2

www.myschoollunch.co.uk/enfield

IntroductionWelcome to the first edition of our newsletter and we hope you enjoy reading the articles which we want to share with you! Please note that we regularly update our website with news and this can be found at www.myschoollunch.co.uk/enfield

Enfield School Meals Newsletter

Enfield School Meals

January 2015

Page 2: Enfield School Meals Newsletter · New food labelling law From December 2014, all food businesses had to be able to provide information on 14 allergens (listed below) for every recipe

New food labelling lawFrom December 2014, all food businesses had to be able to provide information on 14 allergens (listed below) for every recipe/food they produce. These allergens are defined as foods that have most commonly been reported to cause an allergic reaction in people.

They are:

• Cereals containing gluten

• Crustaceans (e.g. prawns)

• Eggs• Fish• Peanuts• Nuts (e.g. almond,

cashew, Brazil nuts)• Soy

• Milk• Celery• Mustard• Sesame seeds• Suphur dioxide (used

as a preservative e.g. in dried fruit)

• Lupin• Molluscs (e.g.

mussels)

This information can be presented in various ways – either on the menu itself, on charts etc. In Enfield Catering, this information is available on our website www.myschoollunch.co.uk/enfield or via our email address.

Please contact us through our website, or email [email protected] if you would like any further information. We can cater for most medically-confirmed allergies.

New nutrition standardsIn January 2015, the new food standards will be in place and are designed to make it easier for Caterers to create imaginative, flexible and nutritious menus. These school food standards are intended to help children develop healthy eating habits and ensure that they get the energy and nutrition they need across the whole school day.

If you would like to find out more about the standards please visit the School Food Plan website www.schoolfoodplan.com or Children’s Food Trust website www.childrensfoodtrust.org.uk or email us on [email protected]

Support to increase your school meal take up Did you know that your schools can get a free package of support funded by the Department for Education for junior, middle, secondary, PRUs and special schools – including academies and free schools – with below average take up to help increase school meal numbers?

As well as helping to ensure the long-term viability of a school meal service, increasing access to good school food has the potential to support health and wellbeing priorities around healthy weight and reducing health inequalities. Furthermore, increasing access to good food has the potential to kick start a process of improving behaviour, attainment and attendance at the same time.

Each eligible school will receive FREE a support package worth over £2,000 that includes up to six training events for school leaders, caterers and school cooks, a tailored action plan, range of resources and advice from specialist regional staff. This support will be delivered by school food experts the Food for Life Partnership to eligible schools across London. With the new school food standards now in place there is no time like the present to improve your school food provision.

Applications are now open, so to quickly check whether you are eligible and to register your school please visit: www.foodforlife.org.uk/takeup or email Jillian Pitt at [email protected] for further information.

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What about my children in years’ three to six?If your family receives certain benefits or is on a low income, your other children in years’ three to six could also be eligible for a free school meal. It costs nothing to apply but could save you money and the school receives the extra funding for your child’s education. To find out if you qualify, and how to apply, either:

• Ask at your child’s school• Visit www.enfield.gov.uk• Or call the Pupil Benefit Helpline on 020 8379 5367

(8.30am – 12pm then 2pm – 4pm).

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Photo GalleryPlease see below some photos from various events and theme days in the past year...

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Left: Chinese New Year at St Andrew’s N14

Right: Fruit platters at Capel

Manor Primary School

Below, Rita and Kay (Area Supervisors) with Penny, our Chef from Enfield

County School

Above: Trying out our food at our menu

tasting evening

Right: The ladies serving at Latymer All

Saints

Below: Julia and Wendy

(Catering Managers) with

Mary (Area Supervisor)

Left: Indian day at Galliard

Above: Kay, Julia and Jane (Primary Area Manager) at Enfield Play Day

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About our food...We are very proud of the food we serve in Enfield and have worked hard to improve the menus even further. We are accredited with the Soil Association’s Silver Catering Mark; recognition that our menus are freshly prepared and using quality ingredients.

Did you know...

• Our fish is Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certified? To find out more about sustainable fish visit www.msc.org

• All our eggs are free-range and come from a family-run farm in Hertfordshire.

• Our washed white and red potatoes are from a farm that has been growing potatoes in Essex and selling them at London markets, such as New Covent Garden since 1881.

• Our Cucumber, Peppers, Courgettes, Spring Onion, Red Onion are all grown in the Lea Valley area.

• Our meat comes from a wholesale butcher and is all “Farm Assured” as a minimum – i.e. from farms that satisfy UK animal welfare standards.

• Our English strawberries come from a family farm in Essex, who have been running the business nearly 130 years!

• Animal welfare is important to us, we have switched to a cleaning product that is BUAV-approved (i.e. not tested on animals), and sourced from a local company in Enfield.

School Food PlanThe School Food plan is an agreed plan that has the support of the Secretary of State for Education to help improve meal uptake and passion around school food. Further information and the plan itself can be found at www.schoolfoodplan.com

Myles Bremner (Director) and Leah Schabas from School Food Plan team visited two of our school kitchens. They spent time with our Head Cooks; Liz Guerin at Lavender School, and Letitia Frimpong at Wilbury School preparing and serving the food i.e. seeing what it is actually like to work in one of our kitchens. Leah said afterwards “Myles and I had a fantastic time – one of the highlights of the past year!”

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Welcome to our new schools!

Myles and Leah in Wilbury kitchen

Enfield Catering welcomes the following schools into our service: • Oakthorpe Primary School• Meridian Angel Primary

and our new Head Chefs:• Louis Francis (Bowes)• Sheren Brown (Brettenham)• Hatice Mustafa (Oakthorpe)