Jamie Oliver has led a national campaign to improve school dinners

Capel Primary School near Tonbridge, is one of three Kent schools chosen to road test Jamie's school dinners, as part of a national pilot scheme.

Since the school was selected, those choosing to have a hot meal has risen from 42 to more than 100 pupils.

Turkey twisters and chips have been replaced by chilli beef fajitas and fresh salmon pie.

Local produce

The cost of each meal has also risen from 40p per pupil to just under �1 - which is being subsidised by Initial Catering Services.

Kent has been allocated more than �804,000 from the �280m "Jamie Oliver" cash provided by the government to improve school dinners.

Kent County Council leader Paul Carter, said: "We already provide an excellent service to more than 25,000 pupils everyday and this money will give us the opportunity to help improve our kitchen equipment and boost staff training.

"Kent works hard to ensure schools provide balanced, nutritious and appealing dinners for students and where we can, we always try to use local produce from Kent."