Your school is aiming to limit 'sometimes' foods in the school canteen and wide school community.

What are ‘Sometimes’ foods and drinks?

They include chocolate, confectionary, sweet drinks, crisps, chips, fried foods and some cakes, biscuits and pastry items that are high in fat, sugar or salt.

Make a plan to achieve 'Limit Sometimes' Foods'

• Use the Limit 'Sometimes' Foods Action Plan


• The Limit 'Sometimes' Foods Starter Pack Booklet is under review. send us an email for information.

• Use the Move Well Eat Well Annual Events calendar to promote the limiting of Sometimes foods on different occasions:
  • Events Calendar (pdf)
  • Events Calendar (accessible)

Resources for limiting 'sometimes' food at your school

• Fundraising

• School celebrations

• Class cooking and recipe ideas

• Non food ideas for classroom rewards

• Waste-free lunch toolkit - toolkit for teachers and families to encourage waste-free lunches


• Success Stories: ideas from other schools

• Extra resources that support Limit 'Sometimes' Foods

School canteen or food service:

• Breakfast club program - ideas and support

• Working with School Food Matters

• Creating a sustainable school canteen

Learning about and understanding 'sometimes' foods:

• Make contact with a dietitian to arrange a food and nutrition focussed discussion at a staff meeting.


• Find answers to common questions about children's eating.

Information to share with your school community

Newsletter inserts

(Save the jpg file to your computer, then insert the file into your newsletter. Please note that these may take some time to download)

• Packing a rubbish-free lunch


• Don't forget breakfast

• Lunchbox and snack idea flyers

Displays/posters

• icon (jpeg file)


• Healthy Plate poster


• Eat a Rainbow poster

Let families know they can visit the For Families section of this website to find fun ideas on how they can be active. No password is needed.

Curriculum materials

Our curriculum units are currently under review. Send us an email for more information.

Policy

A policy for health and wellbeing is part of a whole school approach to improving outcomes for children. We have a policy template available for all member schools to use and personalise to their school context.

Policy template