YES - DAVID DANIELS, head teacher, Petchey Academy, Hackney, London
A stay-on-site policy is essential to the health and wellbeing of our pupils. The stay-on-site policy and compulsory school meals are written into the agreement with parents when they come to the school so parents have been very supportive.
Often students come to us in Year 7 unable to hold cutlery and some are not used to eating at a table, so the school is providing valuable social skills. Burgers and chips are not appropriate. Social skills are not learned stood outside the local takeaway shop, but in school, sat at a table enjoying a tasty, healthy meal with their peers.
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