Healthy Eating at Porter Croft

Eat Smart Sheffield

At Porter Croft Academy, we are working alongside Eat Smart Sheffield to support healthy eating.

Eat Smart Sheffield's mission is to provide, children, their families and the wider community the confidence, skills and knowledge they need to cook, grow and enjoy good quality affordable food.

Food for Life Award

Porter Croft has been awarded a Bronze Level towards the Food for Life Award.

In the coming months we are warking towards gaining the silver accreditation.

To support us encourage children and families to adopt healthy food choices we are also enrolled on the Food for Life Award. Please click on the links embedded on the pictures to find out more about these programmes.

The Food for Life Award is a nationally recognised benchmark which guides settings through four areas of development to embed a good food culture: Food Quality, Food Leadership & Culture, Food Education and Community & Partnerships (with the addition of Parental Engagement for Early Years).

Why get involved?

Pupils in Food for Life schools are twice as likely to eat their five-a-day, and 45% of parents report eating more vegetables as a result of their child’s school being in the Food for Life programme.

Food for Life’s pioneering ‘whole setting approach’ means that a good food culture is embedded throughout the school, from the lunch times to the classroom.

Taylor Shaw School

Meal Menu

Food is delievered to Porter Croft by Taylor Shaw School Catering.

Taylor Shaw embrace the School Food Standards and plan imaginative and diverse menus to suit the needs of the children and your school.

Menus are not only delicious but packed full of energy and all the nutrients that children need to support their growth and learning. Menu and recipe ideas are brought to life in our kitchens by our creative team of experts.

Pupils are involved in aspects of the menu planning from generating ideas to sampling the products.

Eat Smart Sheffield Packed Lunch Guidance

Packed lunches can contribute to almost a third of a child’s weekly food intake, therefore we want to encourage healthy packed lunches for those children who bring them into school.

As such, the following guidance has been designed to help you to provide a healthy and nutritious packed lunch for your child to help give them the best chance possible.