‘Working together to help schools nourish children, promote healthy living and provide social learning experiences during the school holidays’

What is SHEP?

SHEP is a school-based education programme that provides food and nutrition education, physical activity, enrichment sessions and healthy meals to children during the school summer holidays.

Food and Fun is the brand identity used at local level to promote schemes to children and families.

What are the main benefits of SHEP?

1. The clubs make children more active
2. Improvements in children’s diets
3. Making new friends and having fun
4. Learning and engagement with school
5. Helps parents meet the costs of school holidays
6. Improving parents’ health and well-being
7. Parents learn new skills
8. Involves the whole family
9. Facilitates collaboration between agencies
10. Involves children in decision making
11. Makes better use of existing facilities
12. Encourages community engagement
13. Offers paid and voluntary employment
14. Signposts to other services

During the Summer Holidays 2021 we delivered the Food and Fun programme at Ysgol Cefn Meiriadog to 90% of our pupils. Pupils attended for up to 12 half day sessions and took part in a wide range of activities - all for free!

Please see below for some of the activities we were involved in: