On Tuesday this week the PhunkyFoods team descended on the beautiful Palace of Westminster for a celebratory drinks reception to mark 10 years of PhunkyFoods. In that time we have reached over 1500 primary schools, SEN and early years settings; delivering healthy eating and physical …
Urgent call for obesity task force
Timed to coincide with back to school week we have another call from health professionals for real action against childhood obesity. You can read more on that here. I’m not sure another committee is truly the answer; but I do know we need to keep …
New School Food Standards Published
This week saw the arrival of new school food standards from the Department for Education in England. The new standards, which are designed to make it easier for school cooks to create imaginative, flexible and nutritious menus, will become a legal requirement for schools in …
Improving the nation’s diet: Five Phunky Top Tips
As a nation we’re still eating too much sugar, salt and saturated fat, and not enough fruit & veg, fibre and oily fish, according to data published by Public Health England last week. There’s also a risk of vitamin D deficiency across all age groups, …
PhunkyFoods welcomes free school meals
A big PhunkyFoods ‘like‘ for Deputy PM Nick Clegg’s announcement that all 5-7 year old children in England will receive free school meals from next September! (1) At a time when family budgets are being squeezed in all directions, diseases caused by nutritional deficiencies such …
North Duffield Primary treats MP to tasty lesson
Selby and Ainsty MP, Nigel Adams was treated to a tasty lesson on healthy eating during his visit to North Duffield Community Primary School today. After joining in with 30 pupils in a hands-on, ‘Back to Basics’ food preparation lesson as part of the PhunkyFoods …
‘Active Schools’ should be the norm
A vital role for schools in helping reverse the half-century epidemic of physical inactivity is highlighted in the first of two reports from the All-Party Parliamentary Commission on Physical Activity (1), which was set up in 2013. UK Chief Medical Officers recommend that all children …
Croydon children get Phunky!
Croydon Council is set to embark on a two-year initiative to encourage healthy eating and tackle childhood obesity with the introduction of the award-winning PhunkyFoods programme pioneered by Harrogate-based Purely Nutrition. The programme will be targeted at primary schools in the borough in areas of …
MP has fun with PhunkyFoods at Wykeham Primary
Fun was had by all on Friday 31 January when Member of Parliament for Scarborough & Whitby Robert Goodwill visited Wykeham Primary during a PhunkyFoods session. The MP – along with every pupil in the school – enjoyed making and eating our famous PhunkyFoods ‘Super-Crunch‘ …
Latest childhood obesity figures for England published
Newly published figures from the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) for the school year 2012/13 show that obesity levels have “stabilised” according to Public Health England (1). Yet there’s no room for complacency – over one in five (22%) of children in Reception (age 4-5 …
