You can now earn a great range of rewards for your school, canteen, staff, volunteers or students by using Clorox Commercial’s range of quality hygiene products – including CHUX Superwipes, GLAD Wrap, OSO and PERFEX products.

Elanora Heights Primary School, on Sydney’s northern beaches, is using touchscreen and swipecard technology to improve canteen efficiency and cut down the workload.

We all understand the importance of good nutrition, but trying to use the school canteen menu to encourage healthier eating among schoolkids can be fraught with problems.

At Seaview Downs Primary School in Seaview Downs, South Australia, Canteen Manager Helen Morris has implemented a strategy to help build good eating habits. With the support of Principal Kate Martin and the wider school community, Helen’s canteen has changed the way Seaview Downs’ 250 students think about food.

Forty canteens across Australia have each won a Panasonic UB-T781 interactive whiteboard for their school – courtesy of Ingham Foodservice!

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The most severe form of allergic reaction, anaphylaxis is potentially life-threatening and needs to be treated as a medical emergency requiring immediate treatment and urgent attention.

To find out more about this reaction, what its triggers are and the risk minimisation procedures that school canteens should have in place, we spoke to Geraldine Batty of Anaphylaxis Australia.

Sheryl Barry, Canteen Supervisor of Bulahdelah Central School on the NSW central coast, knew she needed to serve a wider variety of food. She decided to offer a range of freshly prepared homestyle meals – a move which has paid dividends, as the canteen’s profits shot up from $600 to $900 per day!