Malcolm Lloyd
Headteacher, Somerset

Not in our school kitchen. However, you only get what you pay for, so we invest heavily in wholesome food. Our boys work very hard physically, either at sport or in the school farm or gardens and, as a result, eat large amounts of good-quality food. That comes at a cost.

We use a local catering company and they try to source local produce. Some of the ingredients we use are from the school garden, and the boys' curriculum makes them aware of sustainability.

Any facilities that aren't up to scratch elsewhere maybe show that the morale of the people working there is low. Here, the county visits at least annually to inspect the quality of food and the qualifications of staff, and the boys themselves are asked what they think.

Lyn Melville-James
Parent, London

I think he did a good job of raising awareness, but some of his ideas were ones that children might not have accepted. Children learn to eat the way they learn everything, and he was introducing things outside their experience. It's possible some children don't know what real food looks like.

With gifted people in charge it's possible to do school meals really well. I'm a teacher and in the school where I teach now the food is excellent: organic, with salads and a vegetarian option.

Schools would be brought to task for poor teaching, so why not for poor nutrition? There should be regular inspections for kitchens just as there are for teaching standards.

Scott Collen
Aged 16, from Kent

Local education authorties are putting pressure on catering companies to improve variety and the healthy options available. But the standard secondary school dinner of chips, peas or beans and sausages or burger hasn't changed for years, even with Jamie Oliver's campaign.

There is no point offering fruit alongside chips as we all know that the majority of children, and adults, too, are not going to eat what's good for them if you are going to offer what they prefer alongside it.

I sit on the health sub-committee of the Medway Youth Parliament and we're involved in campaigns for 11- to 19-year-olds, including the Obesity Strategy and the Water is Cool in School programme, which will hopefully bring water into secondary school classrooms, just as the government has done for primary schools. Schools need to take all the junk food away in one big hit.