Browsing by Author "Marno, Leena"

In Finland's new curriculum for comprehensive schools, pupils, teachers and school catering staff are supposed to plan together school lunch, so that school lunch is a part of education. In this study we explore different ideas how to build good relationship between three groups to co-operate together. In the school I studied there has been there have been some small thematic happenings related to school lunches, which have been a success. There are three research questions: 1. What kind of pleasant memories respondents have about school lunch. 2. What kind of improvements do you have about school lunch? 3. How can catering staff, pupils and teachers participate to make these improvements work? Methods: Pupils have been asked ideas about how to develop school lunch. Then teachers, pupils and school catering staff have been intertwined about school lunch. There came some suggestions about infrastructure, such as noise and queuing to cafeteria. Then many suggestions, eg. Soft background music, or for example Greek day with food, decorations and music. Pupils and teacher suggested it would be one class who could arrange this together with catering staff. And maybe some is happening to stop food waste? Pupils can learn a lot at school lunch about healthy food, good manners and many other things. School catering staff should be planning curriculum changes together with teachers and pupils. Next step is to have a meeting where these tree groups develop ideas to reality When co-operating together feeling of community gets stronger in the whole school.