Schools in Rhiwbina and other parts of North Cardiff are among a record number which have signed up to deliver Food and Fun, a holiday enrichment programme for the summer.
Now in its ninth year, Food and Fun 2024 involves 28 Cardiff schools, including three secondary schools, 20 English medium primary schools, two Welsh medium primary schools, two special schools and one pupil referral unit - meaning that more than 1700 pupils will have access to the multi-award-winning health and well-being provision during the school holidays.
In North Cardiff, the schools involved include: Birchgrove Primary School, Bishop of Llandaff, Bryn Celyn Primary School (Pentwyn), Bryn y Deryn (Mynachdy), Coed Glas Primary School (Llanishen), Gabalfa Primary School, Glyncoed Primary School,
Greenhill Special School (Rhiwbina), Springwood Primary School (Llanedeyrn),
The Hollies School (Pentwyn), Ysgol Glan Ceubal (Gabalfa).
With the aim of helping to ease the financial pressures on many families across the city during the summer break, Food and Fun provides healthy nutritious meals alongside opportunities to socialise, engage in physical activity and learn new skills.
The programme includes educational, skills and sports provision.
Cardiff Council's cabinet member for education, employment and skills, Sarah Merry said: "I am delighted that the Food and Fun programme is reaching more children than ever this year, ensuring many families benefit by helping to ease the financial burden that the six-week school holiday brings".
In a bid to support the increased use of locally grown produce in school meals, Food and Fun is again taking part in the Welsh Veg in Schools project coordinated by Food Sense Wales.
Local growers, Food Cardiff, Cardiff Council and the city's school meal supplier Castell Howell, are exploring how more local produce could be incorporated into school meals through engagement with children and the supply chain.
Food and Fun was developed by Cardiff's School Holiday Enrichment team in 2015 and was adopted by Welsh Government and rolled out to the rest of Wales during the following two years.
It has been used as an example of best practice and has led to Wales being recognised as having the most advanced holiday provision in the UK.
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