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Home > 'Go for your life' Canteen Advisory Service > What if my school doesn't have a canteen?
What if my school doesn't have a canteen?Promoting healthy eating across the whole school environment is important for effective health promotion. The health promoting schools framework is a model that involves the inclusion of activities that promote health such as healthy eating across the 3 areas:
Schools without a canteen can still play an active role in providing healthy foods and promoting healthy eating in other areas such as teaching in the classroom, ensuring fundraising activities are healthy, providing healthy food choices at special school events, sporting days and excursions, implementing classroom fruit break and water programs, planting a school vegetable garden and celebrating National Nutrition Week with healthy fruit and vegetable activities How can we make changes when our canteen is off-site? If possible, involve the off-site food service in the development of your school food and nutrition policy. Get their input on your school nutrition policy committee, so they feel involved and will be more likely to be supportive. Provide clear communication of your intention and why you want the children at your school to eat healthy food. Just as a school with a canteen would write a canteen policy, include a statement of nutrition and healthy food guidelines, within the tender and/or contract document you provide to the off-site business or catering company. Provide them with supporting information and resources, such as the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development’s Guidelines for School Canteens and Other School Food Services, healthy canteen buyers guides and details of any upcoming canteen training or workshops you hear of. Acknowledgement
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