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‘Food and Fun’ this summer in Flintshire schools!
Published: 11/08/2022
Eight Flintshire schools saw 286 children aged 5-12 years benefit from this year’s Food and Fun programme.
This is the first year Ysgol Gronant and Ysgol Glan Aber have offered the programme.
Ysgol Treffynnon, Queensferry Primary School, Ysgol Maesglas, Ysgol Bryn Garth, Ysgol Bryn Gwalia and Connah’s Quay High school have successfully delivered the programme in previous years.
Food and Fun previously known as the School Holiday Enrichment programme (SHEP) has been delivered in Flintshire since 2018 and now in its fifth year.
Children attending enjoy a healthy breakfast, snack and a hot lunch provided each day by NEWydd Catering. Food and Fun has a keen focus on nutrition education, with children encouraged to try new foods and take part in practical food activities each week. Aura Leisure deliver a wide variety of sporting activities and interactive games alongside a broad offer of enrichment activities coordinated by each school. The children have enjoyed dancing, circus skills and drumming and the return of the most popular providers from recent years.
Flintshire Council’s Leader and Cabinet Member for Education, Welsh Language, Culture and Leisure, Councillor Ian Roberts and Chief Officer for Education and Youth Claire Homard visited two of schools delivering Food and Fun recently - Ysgol Bryn Garth and Ysgol Glan Aber.
Councillor Roberts said:
“This year, parents will be invited back into school to join their children for meals and activities, in addition to the provision of a recipe box for each child - consisting of healthy recipe cards, together with all of the ingredients for the children and parents to prepare at home. This is particularly welcome with the increase in the cost of living.”
Claire Homard said:
“Food and Fun would not be possible without the dedication of the staff in each school who keep their doors open for three weeks to deliver this programme for the benefit of the children. A huge thank you for their hard work and commitment and that is extended to all the partners involved in the delivery of Flintshire Food and Fun this year.”
YSGOL GLAN ABER
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Head teacher, Paul Noon (left) with Claire Homard and
Cllr Ian Roberts and children from Glan Aber and also
Kevin Hughes (governor), Claire Sinnott - FCC officer and
(in red) Sharon Lewis, Iwan Waters and Sarah Pellici
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YSGOL BRYN GARTH
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Claire Homard with students from Ysgol Bryn Garth
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Claire Homard with students and Lisa Igar Ysgol Bryn Garth Food and Fun coordinator (centre in red) Jen Waite in purple from Delyn Gymnastics along with an assistant from Delyn gymnastics
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Jane Edmund-Robinson from Newydd Catering with students
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