The importance of informing young people about nutrition and healthy eating is now widely accepted.   Olive are committed to providing your pupils with fresh food via a balanced nutritional diet.   In fact, the new compulsory nutritional standards which came into force in September 2006 had little effect upon the way we approach the catering in our independent schools.   Olive's philosophy has always followed good nutritional practices of producing menus balanced from all of the food groups, using fresh ingredients and reducing salt and saturated fat.

For younger children (4-11 years) we have developed a healthy eating programme that involves both the teachers and parents in helping children to eat more fruit and vegetables and cut down on fatty, sugary foods.  

For older pupils (11-18 years), the principles still stand, but the approach changes.   Nowadays, young people have developed sophisticated palates and demand varied food often with international influences.   Accordingly, we have developed a menu range with influences from all over the world together with marketing to appeal to this grown up age group.

To see our case study on providing Independent Education food services, see our case studies section.