1. Copyright © Eagle Solutions Services 2012, All Rights Reserved Food: An Academys Secret Weapon Yinka Ewuola, Director Eagle Solutions Services Or any Schools ^

2. E AGLE S OLUTIONS S ERVICES : Supporting Excellent Education and Nutrition Today, for a Better Tomorrow What do you think about, when you hear the words School food?

3. E AGLE S OLUTIONS S ERVICES : Supporting Excellent Education and Nutrition Today, for a Better Tomorrow Why is food so important when considering the change to academy status? Because Food affects EVERYTHING! Nutrition Finance Business Community Social Academics Facilities Mgmt School Leadership BehaviourDevelopment

4. E AGLE S OLUTIONS S ERVICES : Supporting Excellent Education and Nutrition Today, for a Better Tomorrow Its all about

5. E AGLE S OLUTIONS S ERVICES : Supporting Excellent Education and Nutrition Today, for a Better Tomorrow Great places to start 1.Look at whats happening with your school food at lunch time 2.Look at your clubs 3.Look at how food supports your curriculum Back to 1: Look at the kind of service you have, as the easiest way to unleash the power of food is with An In House – or Self-Managed Catering Service

6. E AGLE S OLUTIONS S ERVICES : Supporting Excellent Education and Nutrition Today, for a Better Tomorrow Whats it all about? In House Catering is not just about Good/ Better Food – Its about changing the schools, childs, teachers and communitys relationships with food – Its about empowering a school to use food as an educational advantage – Its about making the catering spend work harder for the school – Its about putting another resource in the teaching toolbox – It is about changing the futures of tomorrows choosers

7. E AGLE S OLUTIONS S ERVICES : Supporting Excellent Education and Nutrition Today, for a Better Tomorrow Key Features An In House, or Self-Managed Catering Service is a service where: – The catering team are direct employees of the school – The school takes responsibility and control for the delivery of the meals – The school gets to decide what goes on the menu, who they get food from, and most importantly how lunchtime fits into the other activities at the school

8. PLEASE NOTE: No matter who provides your Catering Service, the School and its Governors are FULLY and LEGALLY responsible for the statutory requirements of the service In House catering does not give you additional legal responsibilities E AGLE S OLUTIONS S ERVICES : Supporting Excellent Education and Nutrition Today, for a Better Tomorrow

9. A Brief Comparison In House Catering You pay for what you use You control menus & choose suppliers You control spend You take profits You have another team directly under your control You have flexibility Outsourced Catering You pay for what you use + margins to the provider You negotiate with provider whose priorities may not match yours Un-transparent spend Provider takes profits You have a team working in your school, but not directly under your control. The service can only really adapt to the changing needs of the school at the point of renegotiation. Flexibility & ControlFixed & Rigid E AGLE S OLUTIONS S ERVICES : Supporting Excellent Education and Nutrition Today, for a Better Tomorrow

10. A Recipe for Success 1.Strong and definite plan for set up 2.Insider Industry Knowledge 3.Provisions for the Transition Process 4.Help with the Implementation Stages 5.I NDEPENDENT C HECKS AND B ALANCES TO KEEP YOU ON TRACK ON AN ONGOING BASIS

11. E AGLE S OLUTIONS S ERVICES : Supporting Excellent Education and Nutrition Today, for a Better Tomorrow The Financial Business Case It works for every type of school Every size of school Creates a bespoke solution that lasts ad infinitum – as it adapts with the school Eliminates the Schools catering tender costs Financially: – It is cheaper – Rather than simply being a cost centre, catering can actually become a revenue stream. – Because of the other opportunities, the money you were spending anyway becomes an investment in other areas. – Proof of the Pudding: not one of the case study schools has had to put up meal prices to parents... Lowest locally by 35p per day and Knowledgeable Expert Advantage

12. E AGLE S OLUTIONS S ERVICES : Supporting Excellent Education and Nutrition Today, for a Better Tomorrow The Educational Business Case Provides a school with Educational Opportunities unlike any other medium because of Foods universal nature – Food Weeks – Constant Menu Consultation Process – Enterprise Challenge (Student Snack Shop) – School Grown/ Made Produce – Veg Box Scheme – Social Skills: Good Manners Week These are some of the things that will teach beyond normal classroom learning, will support teaching and learning and has been recognised by Ofsted in school reports as an excellent means for reducing the inequalities of different groups (Multi-sensory learning for boys and children with SEN)

13. E AGLE S OLUTIONS S ERVICES : Supporting Excellent Education and Nutrition Today, for a Better Tomorrow The Nutritional Business Case In house Catering provides superior nutrition to the other catering options as it allows the school to be treated as an individual – Good quality food – Focus on local sourcing – Fresh cooking as standard – Passing cooking skills to children and their families – Educating children about nutrition and food choices – Making food enjoyable (Superdooper Spag Bol) An in house catering service give the school an extensive opportunity to help students and their families to access to nutrition and education about food that they would not ordinarily have.

14. E AGLE S OLUTIONS S ERVICES : Supporting Excellent Education and Nutrition Today, for a Better Tomorrow A great starting place to transform a school Lets now consider your school food culture

15. E AGLE S OLUTIONS S ERVICES : Supporting Excellent Education and Nutrition Today, for a Better Tomorrow Chestnuts Primary School Chestnuts is a growing school that has achieved so much in the last 7 years of their service Were able to realise an initial influx of £42,000 of funds from additional income and cost reduction in the very first year Have continued to keep the catering service financially viable year on year having made surpluses for reinvestment all but one year Continue to use the flexibility for the service to change and adapt No increase in cost to parents in 6 years (lowest school lunches cost to parents in the borough) Celebrated food culture – Londons only FFLP Gold Award Food Culture (min 30% organic, 50% local sourcing) Continued emphasis on skills for life, cookery on the curriculum each week Enterprise project where students have been running the snack shop and make all business and financial decisions Meal uptake percentage over 80%

16. E AGLE S OLUTIONS S ERVICES : Supporting Excellent Education and Nutrition Today, for a Better Tomorrow Food… has the power To Improve education and academics Motivate the toughest critics Inspire long term change Transform your school culture Integrate your school community Reach out to the wider community Improve childrens life chances Challenge beliefs Teach about other cultures Change the lives of todays choosers and tomorrows parents Make serious cash for the school Make the catering spend work harder and better for the school Save time for the teaching and admin staff

17. E AGLE S OLUTIONS S ERVICES : Supporting Excellent Education and Nutrition Today, for a Better Tomorrow So What? If any of this is of interest, come and talk to me: (yinka@eaglessl.co.uk, 0207 241 7160)yinka@eaglessl.co.uk If youve never considered it before, but are considering it now, thats great – we have a very special offer to support and assist the TES SBMs…

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