Healthy school meals

Schoolchildren in Royal Greenwich enjoy healthy, fresh-cooked meals made from fresh ingredients, every day.

The healthy menus were first introduced in 2004 with the close involvement of Jamie Oliver who was working on the 'Jamie's School Dinners' TV show.

When the new menus were rolled out, take-up of school meals in primary schools rose initially by 2-3 per cent over the first two years, then levelled out.

The menus mean that many schools in the borough no longer use packaged foods in their school meals, other than tinned tomatoes for sauces and the occasional serving of frozen peas.

All but five of the borough's 88 schools now use the Royal Borough of Greenwich's in-house catering service. The service also supplies meals to one private school in the borough and one grant-maintained school in a neighbouring borough.

Around 2.9 million meals are served in Royal Greenwich schools each year.