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The Scottish School Food Awards aim to ‘showcase and enhance the influence that healthier lifestyles can have on pupil productivity’. The Awards were created to improve standards of wellbeing, sustainability and school meals across the country.
The Awards are open to independent and local authority institutions, in addition to nurseries, contract caterers and foodservice suppliers. The Awards are judges by 14 experts from across the education, foodservice and technology sectors.
The winners include:
The Community Benefits Award: Kirkhope and Yarrow Primary Schools, Scottish Borders
The Sustainable School of the Year Award: Cullivoe Primary School, Shetland
The Well-being in Education Award: Gordonstoun, Moray
The Healthy Living Innovation Award: Glasgow City Council and Soil Association Scotland
The Foodservice Team of the Year Award: Barrhead High School, East Renfrewshire
The Student Chef of the Year Award: Phoebe Lawson, Mackie Academy, Stonehaven
The School Chef of the Year Award: Alistair MacDonald, Fettes College, Edinburgh
The Employee of the Year Award: Anja Fuglestad, Croy Primary School, Inverness
The Lifetime Excellence Award: Lesley Franklin, former head of George Heriot’s School, Edinburgh