Jamie Oliver's Good School Food Awards crowns Lifetime Achievement winner
During her 45-year career at Blackwood Primary School Phyllis has served almost one million school meals. The winners of the Good School Food Awards are presented with a Golden Spoon trophy as well as some prizes.
Speaking about her award victory, Phyllis said: “This is absolutely amazing and overwhelming. I am just doing my job at the end of the day. I like to do a chicken dinner because they get a Yorkshire pudding and we then encourage them to eat the vegetables.”
The Jamie Oliver Good School Food Awards celebrate chefs, catering teams and campaigners putting brilliant food in schools and teaching children how to cook.
Jamie Oliver commented: “Good doesn’t just happen by luck, it needs pillars and that is in structure and also people [like] amazing headteachers that support these amazing cooks who lead teams to feed our kids. We have to feed seven million kids every day for 190 days a year. This is our future.
“We know for a fact that if they are fed well they learn better. The point of the awards is we put a light on these incredible people because I want parents watching this to know this is also theirs. It shouldn’t be unique. It should be every school.”
The five other accolades include Food Educator of the Year, Community and Kindness, The Sun’s School Chef Champions, The Eat Well, Move Well Award with Joe Wicks and the School Food Leader accolade. The remaining awards will be announced at a later date.
They panel of advisors include The School Food People chair Brad Pearce, co-author of the School Food Plan in 2014 Henry Dimbleby, chief executive of School Food Matters Stephanie Slater and co-founder of Chefs in Schools founder Nicole Pisani.