Nutrition and Catering – Flying Start Education Magazine

Flying Start Catches Up With DED Limited, a Market Leader In Cashless Systems

April 2, 2013 By Sonia Leave a Comment

A common notion is that Electronic Point of Sale (EPOS) systems are purely a replacement for the cash register and for many people, their main contact with such a system will be at the supermarket checkout. Whilst EPOS certainly brings the checkout into the 21st century, it also offers a number of other important functions within both the software and the hardware that have the ability to store, communicate and use the data gathered to interact with both user and school administrators. DED Limited, formed in 1983, is based in Lydd, … [Read more...]

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Flying Start catches up with Parry Catering Equipment

February 21, 2013 By Sonia Leave a Comment

Recent years have seen a growing attention being paid to the diet offered to our school children at all levels. Local authorities have realised that parents, in particular, will not settle for anything less than healthy nutrition being offered to their sons and daughters at school and college. The involvement of celebrity chefs in proving how this can be achieved on existing budgets has meant that educational establishments rely more than ever on reliable and efficient catering equipment. One such supplier is Parry Catering in Draycott, … [Read more...]

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Just add water

September 22, 2011 By Sonia Leave a Comment

School kid's interest in learning could be almost doubled by increasing their intake of water during the school day, according to a new survey commissioned by the Natural Hydration Council (NHC). The project was led by Dr Emma Derbyshire from Manchester Metropolitan University and involved 166 children aged 11-12 years St James’s C of E School & Sports College, Bolton. The children at St James’s were provided with three 500ml bottles of water during the school day for three weeks. After just three weeks with the extra daily water, … [Read more...]

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Learn to Munch a Healthy Lunch

April 11, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment

School is where children go to learn to read, write and add up – and in Lancashire, increasingly, it's where they go to learn important life skills, such as how to make healthier food choices. Opportunities that help young people learn about food, where it comes from and how to cook it have an important place in the classroom. This is particularly important when we live in a world where cooking know-how can be limited to putting together meals or snacks from pre-prepared, processed ingredients, and unhealthy food choices surround us. Astonishingly, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Nutrition and Catering Tagged With: Healthy Eating, School Dinners

School Celeb Chef Competition Extends

September 21, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

Celebrity TV Chef Simon Rimmer has extended the deadline in his national School Cooks competition after more than 250 schools sign up for the national cooking challenge in just two months. School Cooks is a nationwide schools’ competition in association with www.eatthechef.com which equips students with the knowledge and skills to deal with a range of issues they face as they grow up. It culminates in April 2011 with a competition which could win their school £10,000 worth of cooking equipment. School Cooks will provide every school … [Read more...]

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Innovate Services Hits the Mark

September 21, 2010 By admin 1 Comment

Innovate Services Ltd, the innovative catering supplier to the education sector, has today announced it has achieved the ISO9001 and ISO14001 quality standards, in addition to being awarded the Bronze Food for Life catering mark. The ISO9001 quality standard certifies that formalised business processes are being applied across our business, and the ISO14001 demonstrates that a core set of standards have been used for designing and implementing an effective environmental management system. Whilst the Food for Life catering mark is a Soil Association … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Nutrition and Catering Tagged With: Catering, Food for Life, Innovative Services