Schools told to help on healthy packed lunches

According to Ofsted, schools should help parents who have low incomes who do not qualify free meals for their children. Two in five schools were failing to meet the requirements for healthy food and primary schools were weak at giving the pupils fruit at lunch. Advice should be given to parents about what to put in their children’s lunch pack, the report said. Report also said that parents with low incomes cannot afford to pay for school lunch. Healthy food is more expensive than donuts and crisps. Parents felt that it was more important to provide food that they knew that their children would eat instead of taken a risk that their children might not eat all day. Mick Brookes, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said ‘it is not the responsibility of the teachers to be lunch box inspectors’.

Comment: Parents really need to pack their children healthy food. A lot of studies show that healthy food, like an apple, helps you better to concentrate. Like the head teacher said, it is not the responsibility of the teachers, but I still think they have to make rules at schools for banning unhealthy food. In my time, when I was at primary school, we were not allowed to bring snacks to school. We had a shelve in class for our lunch pack so that the teacher could see what we had for lunch. To improve their skills and test results, the school and the parents have to think about what they can give them for lunch. What the parents said about that they would not take a risk that their children might not eat all day, they have to reconsider that, because eventually children are going to eat, they would choose hunger for healthy food.
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