Healthy eating

 

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Golden Apple Award

Bury Council’s Food Safety Team and Bury Primary Care Trust’s Community Nutritionist designed the ‘Golden Apple Awards’ scheme. It was designed for nurseries wanting to help prevent tooth decay, improve nutrition and improve hand hygiene amongst children in their care. In 2005 approximately 60% of 5 year-old children in Bury had tooth decay. The Mulberry Bush Nursery Group understands the importance of good dental health and healthy eating. We feel we can make a difference through the meals and snacks that we provide, as well as through educating children and their families. The scheme involves limiting how often children have sugary drinks and foods and encouraging frequent hand washing. There are three grades within the 'Golden Apple Awards' scheme - bronze, silver and gold.

 

The criteria for achieving the gold award is as follows:

• A written snack policy is implemented, food and drinks containing sugar are only provided at snack time.
• A hand washing policy is implemented.
• All food is prepared in a hygienic manner, with no contraventions of the Food Hygiene Regulations.
• Fruit and vegetables are provided as a snack for children at least once a day.
• A "Sugar Free" reward system to be in place i.e. praise, stickers.
• Educational input from the dental / nutritional health / environmental health services at least once a year.
• At least one member of staff preparing food has a formal food hygiene qualification.
• Staff to actively encourage parents to continue the good work at home and eat 5 portions of fruit and vegetables each day.

 

We are very proud to have achieved a Gold standard 'Golden Apple Award' in each of our nurseries.