Sugar smart 2025/26

    This service is available for Academies and Maintained schools

    Description:

    The Sugar Smart School Package helps schools create a healthier school food environment and achieve the Sugar Smart School Award. It provides tailored support with staff training, parent engagement, policy writing, and pupil-focused activities, embedding sustainable initiatives to improve pupil, parent and staff health and promote lifelong healthy habits.

    Year 
    Academic year 2025/26
    Benefits 

    This package will:

    • Assist your school in achieving the Sugar Smart Award, promoting healthier food and drink choices throughout the whole school.
    • Directly assist you in achieving your Healthy Schools London Silver awards with a focus on healthy eating.
    • Help meet Ofsted criteria for Personal Development by promoting healthy lifestyles and positive choices.
    • Improve pupil attention, attainment, and reduce absenteeism by fostering better nutrition and health habits, which support focus and overall wellbeing.
    • Help schools previously part of the Healthy Zones programme to maintain, refresh, and build upon their initiatives, while helping schools that were not part of this programme become a Healthy Zone.
    • Provide expert assistance with writing and updating food policies, lesson plans, parent letters, and baseline surveys.
    • Provide expert guidance from a health improvement officer to stay on track, save time, and make an impact.
    • This package includes training, implementation support, policy development, and resource toolkits to ensure the healthy eating initiatives are sustainable, embedded, and impactful.

    Additional / buy back services 
    Office hours:

    Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm.

    Service directors:

    Julie Lewis

    More detailed information:

    This package includes 14 hours of expert support to guide your school in creating a sugar-smart environment and achieving your Sugar Smart School award. Activities on offer include:

    • Food audit: Analysing the food and drink provided in your school to identify areas for improvement.
    • Staff INSET focused on implementing sugar-smart initiatives and embedding them into school culture.
    • Parent workshops on topics such as sugar swaps, healthy lunchboxes, or food budgeting.
    • Pupil activities to raise awareness about sugar consumption and promote healthier habits, such as:
      • Sugar smart assemblies
      • Creating sugar displays to educate and inspire.
      • Running the Stop the Pop challenge to reduce sugary drink consumption.
      • Organising taste-testing sessions to encourage trying new, healthier foods.
    • Policy writing support: Revising or creating whole-school food policies to align with Sugar Smart goals.
    • Baseline and endline surveys with pupils and staff to measure the impact of the programme.
    • Healthy School London Silver award on the theme of reducing sugar or healthy eating.

    This Package Also Includes:

    • Free access to four central trainings for staff on topics like reducing sugar in packed lunches, healthy snack swaps, and embedding a sugar-smart culture.
    • Two tickets to the Health Improvement Conference.
    • Two drop-in days to help you progress towards Healthy Schools London awards.
    • Three primary or high school PSHE network meetings to share best practices and learn new strategies.
    • The new, professionally designed PSHE scheme of work
    Provider:

    Health Improvement Team, Children and Families.

    Contact:
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    Last updated: 17 Feb 2025