School Meal Memories

School Meal Memories is a short film featuring research from the ESRC-funded project 'The School Meals Service - Past, Present, and Future?

A girl in school uniform is holding pasta on her fork

The Sheffield-based strand of the project, led by Dr Heather Ellis, has collected a series of oral history interviews with individuals across the UK centring on their memories of school meals, whether as a recipient themselves, the parent of a child having school meals or a member of the teaching or catering staff at a school.

The film showcases the school meal memories of the headteacher of one of the partner schools, former students, members of the catering team and current pupils and their families.

Watch the School Meal Memories on Sheffield Player.

For more information about this research, please visit the project website.