Posts Tagged ‘Healthy School Food Program’

Education and Lifelong Learning Mandate Letter (excerpt) Honourable Dennis King, Premier of Prince Edward Island October 11, 2019   "As the Minister of Education and Lifelong Learning, your overarching goal is to lead our province’s efforts to develop and deliver excellent high-quality education in English and French for Island children from birth to Grade 12, while…

PEI School Food Project Student Logo design Contest The PEI School Food Project vision is fresh, delicious, and healthy school food, made with ingredients grown or produced in PEI. We want students to be more involved with menu development and meal prep, and school chefs to make delicious meals from scratch.   The winning logo…

  Morgan Palmer is working with the Public Schools Branch to develop and pilot a provincial school food strategy. As part of this project three School Food Think Tanks were held across P.E.I. this fall.   Students have great ideas to improve food in Island schools – such as lowering the price of healthy meals,…

The PEI Home and School Federation is the umbrella organization of local “home and school” and “parent council” organizations in 55 schools across Prince Edward Island. We bring together parents, guardians, teachers, administrators and staff to promote the total well-being of children and the highest standards of education for each child in the province. The Prince Edward Island…

The core of Chef Tony Geraci's approach to school food is an unshakable belief in the power of students. The power of students to talk about food. To understand food. To come up with plans for better food. The power of students to read and understand labels. To know what whole grains are. To wonder…

In May of 2013 the English Language School Board (now known as Public Schools Branch) issued a Request for Proposals for the Provision of Cafeteria Food Services. The RFP mentions the cafeteria food services for Athena Consolidated Birchwood Intermediate Bluefield High Charlottetown Rural High Colonel Gray High East Wiltshire Intermediate Hernewood Intermediate Kensignton Intermediate/Sr High…

On the afternoon of October 23, 2016, Chef Tony Geraci was honoured to be invited to tour Epekwitk Gardens and Preserves on the Abegweit First Nation. Chef Geraci is on Prince Edward Island for a week at the invitation of the PEI Home and School Federation; he is visiting many individuals and groups involved in…

This past Sunday, October 23, Premier Wade MacLauchlan graciously hosted Chef Tony Geraci to cook with him and his partner Duncan McIntosh at The Mill in New Glasgow. The meal they cooked – from a variety of local, healthy ingredients – was shared by a small group of home and school volunteers around a table…

The PEI Home and School Federation is presenting a free screening of the film Cafeteria Man on Monday, September 19, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. in the Culinary Institute Lecture Theatre at 4 Sydney Street in Charlottetown. Cafeteria Man asks the question “How can we reform school food programs so that they serve more nutritious and…