Tuesday, 26 November 2024

Mooroopna Park Primary School

Rikkie-Lee TYRRELL (Northern Victoria) (13:31): Members will recall my contribution to the house last month, highlighting the work of the principal and the staff of Mooroopna Park Primary School in delivering their school’s wonderful healthy food program. The program provides students with breakfast, morning and afternoon tea and a cooked lunch free of charge, all cooked by a full-time chef employed by the school. While many schools provide a food program to students, Mooroopna Park’s effort to provide healthy meals to their students has now been recognised at a national level.

I am happy to inform the house that Mooroopna Park Primary School was recently awarded the Food for Movement Award at the inaugural Jamie Oliver’s Food Hero Awards, Australia. The awards are part of Jamie’s mission to improve the diets of children throughout the world, and the Food for Movement category is about kids eating good food and being active to benefit their mind, body and soul. Mooroopna Park Primary School’s program was recognised with a Golden Spoon award and $10,000 in prize money awarded by Jamie to principal Hayden Beaton and wellbeing coordinator Lisa Hueston earlier this month. I congratulate Hayden, Lisa and all the staff at Mooroopna Park on winning this award and thank them for their dedication and hard work to improve the nutrition of their 160 students.