What if a school doesn’t have a canteen?
Promoting healthy eating across the whole school environment is an important and effective health promotion strategy. The Health Promoting Schools Framework is a model that involves the inclusion of activities that promote health, such as healthy eating, across the three areas of: teaching and the curriculum, the school organisation and environment, and families and the community. The ‘Go for your life’ Healthy Canteen Kit – Food Planner and the School Canteens and Other School Food Services Policy should be applied across the whole school environment. Schools without a canteen can still play an active role in providing healthy foods and promoting healthy eating in other areas such as teaching, providing healthy food choices at special school events, sporting days and excursions, implementing classroom fruit and water breaks, planting a school vegetable garden and celebrating National Nutrition Week with healthy fruit and vegetable activities.
