TASTE buds are set to be tickled at a Leamington primary school thanks to generous supermarket shoppers.
Youngsters at Shrubland Street Primary School are celebrating being winners in the Tesco ‘blue tokens’ scheme.
They were awarded a thousand pounds for their bid called ‘Food for Life’.
The small school no longer has a kitchen as meals are made off site and brought in and with children from 25 different countries attending the school, there are a wealth of different cultures to share. The school wanted to buy equipment so that pupils could have their own cookery lessons and share recipes from home.
The school was one of three organisations put into the Stronger Starts scheme. Customers at local Tescos were asked to take a blue token at the till and drop it into a box to vote for the project they liked the most.
Headteacher Nicola Mills said the whole process was easy to apply for and the school was proud to have its name in local Tesco stores.
She continued: “Our core values are ‘all different, learning together’. Our Food For Life project is part of that. We want to encourage all our children to know how to make healthy choices and have the skills to make meals from scratch.”
