Appendix 1: Pilot schools summary
School
Baseline
Elson Infant
School
The headteacher supports Historic relationship issues between office/ New chairs.*
school meals and already kitchen staff and lunchtime supervisors.
Tucasi (October 11).
actively promotes school
Cost likely to be an issue for parents.
meals to new parents.
Meal deal.
Do not have Tucasi.
Redecorated kitchen.
Could improve servery area.
Gomer Infant Positive. School has been
School
working on improving
lunch boxes. The trend for
hot meals is increasing
(nearly all Year R eat).
Good arrangements for
lunch time supervisors in
place.
Emerging issues/priorities
Interventions
Outcomes
Improved eating environment.
Uptake increased by 1.7%.**
Not happy with HC3S picnic lunch option.
Pupil voice project.
Encourage staff to eat.
Meal critic activity.
Do not have Tucasi online and interactive
whiteboard (IWB).
New purpose built waste unit.*
Queue lengths have reduced,
and children are reported to
behave better in the dining
hall.
Tucasi on-line (16/4/12).
Uptake down 5%.**
More opportunities to cook would be ideal.
Cost likely to be an issue for parents.
Cafe style.
Meal deal.
Promotion of HC3S.
Work with parents.
Gomer Junior School meals not actively Low income families.
School
promoted but the
Monitor impact on behaviour.
headteacher was
(2nd tranche)
supportive and interested White board option for Tucasi.
in the project.
Promote HC3S and school meals.
Encourage staff to eat.
HC3S whole school training.
Parent and children taster days.
Improve lunch time arrangements.
Meal critic activity.
Meal deal.
School meal/lunchbox activity.
Healthy food fayre including
taster session.*
Not completed but in
progress:
Top table.*
Raised awareness of school
meals in school.
Uptake increased by 5%.**
School
Baseline
Emerging issues/priorities
Interventions
Outcomes
Harrison
Primary
School
Slow to engage with
project. Have good
healthy school approach
and trying to tie in but the
headteacher has not been
actively involved and
progress is slow.
Till in the dining hall and arrangements to
pay.
Meal critic activity.
Increased awareness of school
meals and lunchtime
arrangements.
(2nd tranche)
Long queues.
Mess after first sitting (raised by children).
Capacity.
Pupil voice work.
Meal deal.
Salad bar.*
Not completed but in
progress:
Uptake has increased by 3%
but it is expected that this will
increase further once Tucasi is
in place and the Year 6 servery
has started.
Tucasi due to go in September
12.
Trial trolley service to Year 6
class will happen in September
12.
Horndean
Junior
School
The headteacher made it
clear this is not a priority.
The school have taken the
grant but shown no
commitment and refuse to
respond to calls over
grant spend.
Lack of commitment by school.
The school has taken the grant
but not responded to any
Capacity of the hall could be increased
requests to meet and discuss
with another row of tables. The school are
interventions.
against this.
Issues regarding food quality over past
year.
Lunchtime supervisors – recruitment/mmt
Tucasi on-line.
Increased awareness of school
meals.
Uptake has increased by
13%** although there has been
little active support for
increasing capacity which is
still very much needed and can
be easily achieved by an
additional row of tables.
Promotion of HC3S.
Lee on the
Solent Infant
School
The headteacher eats
with the children once a
week and had some
concerns about the food.
Hot meals and packed lunches separated
Meal critic.
I year group eat sandwiches in classroom. Weekly school council meetings
to be held over hot lunch.
Dining room is dark and uninspiring
Top table.*
Servery is dull.
Staggered sittings.
Promotion of HC3S products and services;
Meal deal.
Tucasi whiteboard.
Display boards.*
A review of lunchtime
arrangements has reduced
queue lengths.
Uptake increased by 9.5%.**
School
Baseline
Lee on the
The hall had a nice feel
Solent Junior but is cluttered with PE
School
equipment. Only 55
minutes is available for
(2nd tranche)
lunch.
Emerging issues/priorities
Interventions
Outcomes
Only 55 minutes available for lunchtime.
Meal critic.
Hot meals and packed lunches separated
Meal deals.
Increased awareness of school
meals. Improved dining room
layout.
I year group eat sandwiches in classroom. New tables.
Promotion of HC3S products and services. New chairs.
Tucasi.
Salad bar and additional bread
rolls.*
Uptake increased by 8%.**
The major interventions and
changes have yet to go in.
Not completed but in
progress:
Working on use of drama room
to increase capacity but
problems with this.
Review lunchtime arrangement
so hot meals and packed
lunches can sit together.
Northern
All children can eat
Infant School together in one sitting.
The school have fully
engaged and actively
promoted school meals
once invited onto the
project.
Tucasi system.
Strong pupil voice work.
HUB.
Meal critic.
Promotion of HC3S products and services. Active joint working with junior.
Lunchtime arrangements to enable friends Linked with Healthy Schools.
to eat together.
Tucasi.
Encourage staff to eat school meals.
Lunchbox/school meal
Parent and pupil tasters.
comparison.
Lunchtime arrangements to
allow hot meals and packed
lunch to sit together.
Meal deal.
Actively promoted in school.
Staff eating with the children.
Pro-active approach to
promoting school meals now in
place. Uptake has increased
by 47%.
School
Baseline
Emerging issues/priorities
Interventions
Outcomes
Cafe style layout.
Cookery competition.*
Parents to lunch.*
Northern
Junior
School
All children can eat
together in one sitting.
The school have fully
engaged and actively
promoted school meals
once invited onto the
project.
Tucasi system.
New tables to increase capacity.* The Healthy Schools manager
who has lead the project is
HUB.
Strong pupil voice work.
leaving. There are also
Promotion of HC3S products and services; Meal critic.
changes senior leadership.
The active promotion of school
Encourage staff to eat school meals.
Active joint working with Infant.
meals at Northern Infant
Improve process for taking a free school
Linked with Healthy Schools.
should have a positive impact
meals (FSM).
on the Junior school. However
Lunchbox/school meal
this is a school with the
comparison.
potential to achieve a similar
Lunchtime arrangements to
step change in uptake.
allow hot meals and packed
Introduction of Tucasi and the
lunch to sit together.
family service should go some
way to this.
Meal deal.
Uptake down 2.4%.
Actively promoted in school
Not completed but in
progress:
Tucasi.
Family service.*
Orchard Lea
Junior
School
(2nd tranche)
Dull dining room and the
servery is closed off. All
children eat in the hall.
The school have taken a
lot of time to fully engage
with the project.
Dull and cold Dining Hall.
Hot meals and packed lunches are
separate.
The servery is hidden away so children
are unable to see the food on offer.
Promotion of HC3S.
Hot meals and packed lunches
can sit together.
Meal critic.
Pupil survey.
Parent focus group and
lunchbox/school meal
comparison workshop.
The school has engaged
towards the end of the project
and now seems more
interested in improving
lunchtimes. Some
improvements have been
brought in but most are
planned in September 12.
Uptake is currently down 13%.
School
Baseline
Emerging issues/priorities
Interventions
Outcomes
Plan to enhance servery.
More work is needed to
engage with parents.
Not completed but in
progress:
Considering a top table and
table cloths to enhance the
dining hall.*
Considering Tucasi.
Would benefit from further
publicity and promotions
targeting parents.
Peel
Really low uptake school.
Common
Historic relationship
Infant School between lunchtime
supervisor and kitchen.
(2nd tranche)
Relatively new head is
keen to improve school
meals.
Tucasi.
Pupil voice.
Customer Care – build relationships.
Meal critic.
Cost.
Meal deal.
Promotion of HC3S.
New tables.
Tucasi.
Increased awareness and
promotion of school meals.
The changes have not yet
been implemented so further
increases to uptake should be
achieved.
Uptake increased by 4.4%*.*
Tasters.
Decorated servery.
Not completed but in
progress:
Will introduce top table and cafe
style layout after September
2012.*
Purbrook
The hall is a nice
Infant School environment although
very noisy. The
(2nd tranche)
headteacher is supportive
but very busy.
Capacity.
Tucasi.
Hot meals and packed lunches are
separate.
Cafe Style arrangement.*
Queuing.
Noise.
Parent focus group.
Meal critic activity.
Introduced milkshake as a
Raised awareness of school
meals and resulted in changes
to lunchtime arrangements.
Uptake increased by 21%.**
School
Baseline
Emerging issues/priorities
Interventions
Food not cooked on site.
dessert.
Do not have online payment.
Meal Deal.
Adult chairs.
Packed lunch and hot meals
able to sit together.
Outcomes
Introduced table monitors.*
Swanmore
Primary
School
(2nd tranche)
The headteacher set out
by being very definite
about school meals not
being an important part of
the school day. This was
reflected by lunchtime
arrangements. The school
has not actively engaged.
Capacity issues, Year 5 and Year 6
children eat packed lunches in their
classrooms.
Packed lunch and hot meals are
separated in the hall.
Meal critic activity.
Meal deal.
Parent focus group
A temporary US has been in
place for most of the project.
The school appears to be more
engaged in improving school
meals. Improved relationships
between school and HC3S.
Uptake increased by 18%.**
Relationship issues between headteacher
and unit superviser.
Food tasting.
Sterile eating environment – children are
squashed in. Bench style seating.
Healthy eating talk and ready
steady cook.
A trolley service to the Year
5/Year 6 block would be ideal but
has been turned down by the
head.
Whiteley
Primary
School
(2nd tranche)
Room for big
improvements in
lunchtimes but the
headteacher is keen to
support to achieve this.
Pupils have been actively
involved.
Increase capacity of the dining area.
Meal critic activity.
Improve dining environment.
Meal deal.
Enable friends to sit together regardless of Second service in Year 5/Year 6
whether they are eating school meal or
common area – children eat in
packed lunch.
classroom and outside with
friends having a packed lunch.*
Cashless catering – Tucasi on-line.
Tucasi introduced.
Recruitment of lunchtime supervisors –
Lunchtime supervisors – customer care.
Food quality/waste.
Children wearing coats to eat.
Increased promotion of school
meals and awareness of the
need to make improvements at
lunchtime.
Year 5/6 new servery has been
really successful although the
results will not be reflected in
the Spring 12 figures.
Uptake increased by 18%.
School
Baseline
Emerging issues/priorities
Interventions
Outcomes
Wicor
Primary
School
Operation Manager has
recently agreed to
undertake a questionnaire
with headteacher. The
headteacher is particularly
interested in dining
arrangements and would
like advice on layout and
reducing noise. There are
issues between the unit
supervisor and school
staff.
Improve dining experience.
Meal deal.
Increase capacity.
Set up successful system for
lunchtime staff - indoor and
outdoor learning support
assistants with a play lead for
outdoors.
Changing the layout of the
dining room and introducing
allocated tables has led to
improved behaviour. Year 6
children no longer feel rushed
to eat their meal.
Reduce noise.
Reduce queuing.
Improve servery.
Monitor impact on behaviour.
Use as example of best practice for
Tucasi.
Cost – meal deals.
HC3S promotion.
Encourage staff to eat with children.
Build relationships – Customer care.
Pupil voice project has resulted
in changes to the dining room
layout – children now sit at
allocated tables.
The school is committed to
improving lunchtimes and are
looking forward to a new unit
supervisor in the kitchen who
they have helped to recruit.
Not completed but in
progress:
Uptake increased by 10%.**
New tables.*
Salad bar.
Possible improvement to the
servery.
Notes:
* = Grant funded intervention
** = Uptake figures are based on a comparison between the Spring Term 2011 and Spring Term 2012 and are in addition to the average
County wide trend increase of 5.7%. The uptake figures for the second tranche pilot schools would be better compared using Summer
2012 or even Autumn 2012 data as many of the interventions were not in place and promoted in time to be reflected in the Spring Term
figures.