Healthy Eating

The food children experience during their early years can play an important part in shaping lifelong habits.

We take our responsibility around nursery food seriously and aim to provide enjoyable, balanced experiences while helping children develop knowledge and confidence around food.

This reflects the philosophy of the existing Healthy Eating page, which emphasises balanced menus, quality food and helping children make healthy choices.

Children enjoy very nutritious, well balanced meals and snacks that are freshly prepared each day by the nursery cook. The excellent food hygiene standards and practices ensure that the food prepared for the children is healthy and planned to meet their individual dietary needs. There are excellent systems for ensuring that children who have allergies do not come into contact with any foods that may cause an adverse reaction, which include the child’s photo and a brief description of what each individual is allergic to. Children are helped to manage their own food needs through self serving their snack and lunch. This helps the children to develop their independence in this area and enables them to take responsibility, and this is a priority of the staff team, who support the younger children to achieve.

Children very successfully manage their own food intake under the careful supervision of the staff. The children’s mealtimes are vibrant and sociable; they thoroughly enjoy chatting to staff and friends as they eat together.’ (OfSTED 2008)