Supplies breakfast food to registered schools free of charge, giving all students an equal opportunity to receive a nutritious breakfast on a regular basis.
Food and Nutrition
School Breakfast Program
nom!
Foodbank WA’s nom! programs are engaging, face-to-face healthy eating and cooking programs which can be tailored for different audiences, including school-aged children, youth, and parents. Programs aim to improve participants’ knowledge and understanding of nutritious foods, and build skills and confidence to prepare healthy foods. nom! is tasty learning for life!
Foodcore Nutrition Services Inc. (previously known as WASCA)
Foodcore Nutrition Services Inc. (previously known as WASCA) assists school canteens and other food services to provide and promote healthy choices and operate economically viable and professional businesses. We do this by empowering food services with training, practical tools, information and advice as well as working in partnership with schools and the wider community, government, food industry, workplaces and other non-government organisations.
Examples of services include: CORE Finances Training, Canteen consultancy, Food Safety Supervisor Training, Bespoke nutrition workshops, Advisory service.
Crunch&Sip
Crunch&Sip is a time during the school day for students to eat vegetables or fruit and drink water in the classroom. Western Australian primary schools and classrooms can officially sign up to participate and will receive free educational resources, curriculum materials, merchandise and may be able to access a starter grant to assist in getting the program off the ground.
Take the Challenge teacher resources
Take the Challenge teacher resources target four key messages: 1. be more active, 2. drink water and 3. eat healthy food to 4. beat disease.
Click to access: Introduction, Early Childhood Module, Middle Childhood Module, Early Adolescence Module and Appendices.
Kitchen Garden Classroom
The Kitchen Garden classroom developed by Stephanie Alexander’s Kitchen Garden Foundation (SAKGF) offers ELC, Primary and secondary schools the opportunity to engage in curriculum based hands on learning.
SNAC (incorporating SNACPlus)
A nutrition and healthy eating support site for early childhood education and care services. There are many reliable, accurate resources to help you provide a healthy eating environment at your service – fact sheets, recipes, videos, quizzes. SNACPlus is a resource to help early childhood educators introduce food and nutrition education to the children they teach. Materials have been developed specifically for early childhood education and care services, and meet the requirements of the ‘Early Years Learning Framework’ and ‘National Quality Standards’, to embed good food habits among young children that will stay with them through adulthood.
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Superhero Foods®
Superhero Foods® is an online initiative that provides a fun, fresh approach to teaching nutrition education to school-aged children. Foodbank WA have posters, storybooks, recipe booklets, a web app and more, to support learning about healthy eating, and show that Everyday Foods are really Superhero Foods in disguise.
EON Thriving Communities Program
The EON Thriving Communities Program has been operating since 2005. It is a hands-on, practical gardening, nutrition education, cooking and hygiene program, delivered in partnership with remote schools and focused on improving health and preventing disease in remote Aboriginal communities throughout Western Australia and Northern Territory.
Prepare Produce Provide (PPP)
Prepare Produce Provides creates opportunities for the youth of WA to work with industry’s finest chefs,, cooking dishes featuring our amazing Australian flavours. PPP are passionate about changing the world… one meal at a time. Projects such as 5000 Meals (preparing meals for the homeless), Smartfish School Education Project (using sustainable seafood) and a yearly camp supporting Indigenous youth leaders have been successfully run though schools and community locations across Western Australia over the last five years.
Life Education Programs
Life Education WA provide a range of age appropriate Curriculum outcome based programs from Kindergarten to Year 6. Click for more information for K and PP and for primary modules here. The sections marked in yellow refer to Mental Health outcomes. Life Education WA partner with both Government and Non Government Schools and provide education to around 30,000 primary students each year.
Packed with Goodness
Cancer Council WA is offering FREE healthy lunchbox education sessions for parents at all Western Australian primary schools. The sessions are 90 minutes in length, run by qualified health professionals and cover following topics; tips for packing a healthy lunchbox, healthy alternatives to pre-packaged snacks, the importance of vegies and fruits for kids, label reading, the best drink choices for kids.
Kinjarling Djinda Ngardak Culinary Experience
The Kinjarling Djinda Ngardak program offers Indigenous students from across WA the opportunity to attend a week-long culinary camp where they will receive training and mentorship from some of WA’s top chefs including Paul Iskov, Melissa Palinkas, Anna Gare, David Gilmour and Indigenous chef Reece Lardi, allowing students to develop their culinary skills using modern cooking techniques met with traditional and locally sourced ingredients.
Throughout the week students also participate in cultural activities with Menang Elders and Cultural Leaders, ranging from art classes to bush walks allowing the students to share stories, spend time on country, and identify and forage for local bush foods.
Better Health Program – A free healthy lifestyle program for children 6-12 years.
Better Health Program – Free & Online Healthy Lifestyle Program for Children 6 – 12
The Better Health Program is a free healthy lifestyle program for children 6 – 12 and their
families. Funded by the Government of Western Australia Department of Health, the program is free for eligible families in WA.
Families will be paired with a personal health coach who will support them to build healthy habits as a family over 10 coaching calls. Areas of support include:
- Quality nutrition,
- Active movement,
- Balancing screen-time,
- Sleep routines, and more!
Families will also get access to a library of fun online activities and bite-sized learning resources to help put advice into practice and will receive a gift voucher upon completion of the program.
Check out our group-based programs here; betterhealthprogram.org/program-location-list/.
If you would like to sign your family up, head to betterhealthprogram.org/ or reach out to our team on 1300 822 953.
If you are an organisation and would like to work with us to promote this out to your community, you can contact Emily – our community engagement officer – at Emily.a@betterhealthcompany.org or (08) 6727 9359.
National Nutrition Foundation (FreshSNAP)
The Fresh School Nutrition Advisory Program (FreshSNAP) provides an integrated, comprehensive state-wide advisory and implementation service to support schools to create healthy food environments and deliver nutrition education.
All schools in WA now have access to a range of free tools, resources, curriculum materials and online training, as well as phone, email and face-to-face support. This program is being delivered by National Nutrition Foundation with funding from the Department of Health Western Australia.
The Program will work to improve the confidence and competency of relevant staff in relation to healthy eating by providing online training for canteen and food service staff and professionals supporting schools. This online training in conjunction with menu and recipe assessments will result in school canteens and caterers creating a gold standard food and drink environment for WA school children.
By taking a whole of school approach, we will be able to influence the system to enable schools to create heathy food environments.
Excitingly FreshSNAP has launched FoodChecker for WA Schools. FoodChecker is an Australian-first, free assessment tool that allows organisations to self-assess menus, recipes, products and vending machines according to the WA School Food and Drink Criteria. This online assessment tool empowers canteen and food service staff to assess their menus, recipes and products and search for healthier foods and drinks from the extensive database of products. FoodChecker is easy to use and provides instant feedback on screen plus a PDF report available to download.
