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The document outlines Copperfield College's healthy eating and canteen policy, which aims to follow Victorian government guidelines for school food services. It divides foods into green, amber, and red categories based on how often they can be offered. The policy applies to the canteens, breakfast club, fundraisers, class parties, and food preparation classes. All staff are responsible for ensuring the canteens and other food services only provide foods in accordance with the guidelines.

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CC HealthyEating CanteenPolicy

The document outlines Copperfield College's healthy eating and canteen policy, which aims to follow Victorian government guidelines for school food services. It divides foods into green, amber, and red categories based on how often they can be offered. The policy applies to the canteens, breakfast club, fundraisers, class parties, and food preparation classes. All staff are responsible for ensuring the canteens and other food services only provide foods in accordance with the guidelines.

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HealthyEating/CanteenPolicy

CopperfieldCollege
Years712

Rationale:

The Victorian Government released a Healthy Canteen Kit for School Canteens and Other School
FoodServicesPolicydocumentinDecember2006.Thisdocumentappliestofoodserviceswithin
the school environment, for example school events such as celebrations and sports days, vending
machinesandfoodsusedincurriculumactivities.

Within this document foods were divided into specific colours and categories; foods which can be
sold daily (green); foods which can be offered only on certain days of the week, need to select
carefully(amber)andfoodswhichcanbesoldonlyonacoupleofoccasionsintheTerm(red).This
documentisonSharepointsoallstaffcanaccesstheinformation.

Thecanteensonallourcampuseshavecompliedwiththeserequirements.

Aim:

Thecollegeaimstohaveawholeschoolapproachtohealthyeatingandtofollowthehealthyeating
guidelines set out by the Department. The aim of this document is to clarify the implications for
otherfoodserviceswithintheschoolenvironmentsuchasBreakfastClub,Fundraisers,EndofTerm
ClassPartiesandtheTeachingClasses.

Implementation:

TheCollegeisresponsibleforensuringtheimplementationoftheobjectiveswithinthispolicyinto
everydaypractice.Allstaffhavetheresponsibilitytoreadandrespondtotherecommendations.

Canteen

The3canteensaretofollowtheDepartmentguidelinesintheSchoolcanteensandotherschool
foodservicespolicyontypesoffoodstobeofferedtoourstudentsandstaff.

BreakfastClub

ThebreakfastclubwouldonlybepermittedtoserveproductsthatadheretotheSchoolCanteens
andOtherSchoolFoodServicesPolicywithparticularreferencetotheRedFoodscategorywhich
prohibitsfriedfoods.

Fundraisers

Onlypermittedtosellproductsthatarepermittedtobesoldinthecanteen.Guidelinesare
availablefromeachgeneralofficeandshouldbecheckedpriortoorganisingthefundraiser.
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Inparticular,noconfectioneryorhighsugareddrinkscanbesold.Cakes/Donutswouldfitinthered
category,sonomorethantwotimespertermpercampus.

ClassParties/Celebrations

Shouldonlybepermittedtoorderingoodsthatareallowedtobesoldinthecanteen.Guidelines
areavailablefromeachgeneraloffice.Inparticular,noconfectioneryorhighsugareddrinks.Foods
suchasPizzashouldbeofferedtoeachindividualgroupnomorethantwiceperterm(amber
category,whichisselectcarefully).

Studentsarenottobringfoodsfromhomeforsharing,unlessitislabelledwithallingredients(due
tofoodallergiesandpossibletriggersforanaphylaxis.

ClassroomFoodPreparationClasses

Teachersaretohighlighttostudentsthecategoriesoffoods(Green,AmberandRed)asapartof
theireducationrelatedtofoods.
Itissuggestedthatteachersdesigntheircurriculumsothattheyadheretotherecommendationsof
frequencyoffoodsasstatedintheSchoolCanteensandOtherSchoolFoodServicesPolicy.

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