There is no doubt that our students want to eat more healthily! They're not alone! Students in over 200 schools in England, Wales and Scotland have joined the campaign to improve access to good quality, healthy food in and around schools.

Here's what Bite Back has to say about the movement:

"Bite Back is a youth activist movement challenging a food system that’s been set up to fool us all. It should be easy for us to eat healthily, but the reality is, it isn’t. The food system is rigged against us, flooding our high streets, schools and supermarket shelves with junk food. This means that the future health of 1 in 3 children in the UK is at risk from food related ill health. Children living in the poorest areas are twice as likely to be affected as their wealthier peers. The good news is, it’s totally preventable and we are biting back! We believe that we can and must redesign this food system to protect the health and futures of millions of children, no matter where they live."

Later this term our year 9 students will become the first Clare Mount group to take part in an assembly and a series of lessons about healthy eating.

Being a Bite Back school is already having an effect on our 6th form students. As you can see from the photographs, this morning they have been making sugar free oat pancakes using ground oats and mashed banana. The pancakes are sweetened only from the natural sugars in the banana, oats and milk and they are high in fibre, thanks to the oats and banana! All agreed they were a great way to start their day, Joe M even suggested "we should make some for breakfast club once a month as a healthy start"

If you want to read more about Bite Back, click here