Parents accompany and supervise lunch meals

Nowadays, many schools in Hai Phong invite parents to supervise meals at boarding schools. This creates a close bond between the school and the family, sharing responsibility for taking care of meals and health of students.

The Parents' Representative Committee of Dinh Tien Hoang Primary School supervises the preparation of school meals.

Peace of mind sending your children to school

Dinh Tien Hoang Primary School, Hong Bang Ward has 1,628 students having meals at school, reaching a rate of 98%. Early in the morning of the last day of September 2025, Mr. Nguyen Hai An, Head of the Parents' Representative Committee of the school, and a number of parents participated in supervising the school kitchen. Mr. Nguyen Hai An said that supervising the quality of meals at school is a major concern and responsibility of parents.

“Each time we supervise, we focus on checking the input food, preservation and processing methods... and give the school frank feedback on the input food, kitchen hygiene, processing and storage of dry food...”, Ms. Dao Thi Linh, Head of the Parents Association of Grade 5P, added.

Relatives of students participate in supervising the food receiving process at Vinh Niem Kindergarten, An Bien ward.

Ms. Doan Thi Thu Hang, Principal of Dinh Tien Hoang Primary School, said that the school considers boarding meals as one of the top priorities, taking care of students' health. The school organizes a one-way kitchen and carefully selects qualified food suppliers. Every day, the school strictly checks the quality of input food and processes it according to the correct procedures; and arranges medical staff to monitor the quality of boarding meals.

In addition, the school publicly announces the weekly menu so that parents can promptly grasp and give feedback to ensure nutrition for students. During the process of organizing meals for boarding students, there is always the supervision of parents. Thereby, the school is transparent in information, parents are more confident when knowing that their children are well taken care of at school.

Food served for school meals is always guaranteed to be fresh, safe, and contributes to taking care of children's health.

Thuong Quan Kindergarten in Tran Lieu Ward organizes meals for 346 children. Teacher Nguyen Thi Quyen, Principal of the school, said that every day, the school publicly posts the menu, quantity and cost of food on the bulletin board at the school gate. The school also proactively creates conditions for grandparents and parents to participate in supervising the kitchen or children's mealtimes when bringing their grandchildren to school.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Hanh, whose child is in kindergarten class 3A2, said: “Every day, I take my child to school and often take the opportunity to visit the kitchen. Seeing with my own eyes every kilo of fresh meat, egg, bunch of vegetables… and the careful preparation and preservation by the teachers, I feel quite secure.”

The Parents' Representative Committee of Dinh Tien Hoang Primary School supervises food input for boarding meals.

Enhance responsibility, connect family and school

It can be seen that monitoring the students' meals at school creates a connection and responsibility between the family and the school to take care of the health, nutrition and physical condition of the students. On the part of the food supplier, the meals also raise awareness and strictly comply with food hygiene and safety regulations, because each meal is monitored by many "eyes and ears".

Students of Long Xuyen Kindergarten, Kinh Mon ward during lunch

Parents' trust is reflected in the increasing rate of students attending boarding school in many schools in the past school year. At the conference to summarize the 2024-2025 school year and deploy the new 2025-2026 school year, Head of the Department of Preschool and Primary Education (Department of Education and Training) Tran Thi Thu Hang informed: In the 2024-2025 school year, boarding work at schools in the city strictly followed regulations on food safety and hygiene, basically ensuring nutrition and health for students. 100% of preschool education facilities are qualified to organize boarding school meals, the rate of children attending boarding school reached 99.93%. Some units have increased the rate of boarding students compared to the previous school year, such as Vinh Bao district (old), the total number of students participating in boarding school reached 61.8%, a high increase compared to the previous year (35.8%).

In the 2025-2026 school year, boarding school continues to be identified as one of the important contents in implementing the tasks of the education and training sector. Therefore, the education and training sector encourages schools to proactively coordinate with parents to implement this model more regularly and effectively. In many directive documents and plans to implement key tasks and solutions for the 2025-2026 school year, Director of the Department of Education and Training Luong Van Viet requested educational institutions, especially preschool and primary schools, to strengthen innovation in methods and forms to improve the quality of child care and nurturing.

Teachers take care of children during meals at Vinh Niem Kindergarten, An Bien ward

In addition, localities also pay attention to closely directing the organization of boarding meals for students to ensure publicity and transparency. Vice Chairwoman of Hong Bang Ward People's Committee Nguyen Thi Van Anh said that in the ward, there are 51 public and private preschools and 13 primary schools that organize boarding meals for children. The number of students having boarding meals at school reaches 100% for preschool children and more than 70% of primary school students. In the 2025-2026 school year, localities continue to require educational institutions to strictly manage the quality of boarding meals and food safety, including close coordination and participation in monitoring of boarding meals by parents.

Parents' active participation in monitoring boarding meals is one of the important solutions contributing to improving and enhancing the quality of boarding meals, creating a safe and healthy educational environment, meeting the expectations of parents and society.

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