It started a year ago in Northland and now 1450 schools and 170,000 Kiwi kids nationally are getting free milk at school from Fonterra.
To celebrate the milestone, the dairy producer held a fun day on Wednesday at Maungaturoto School - one of the first in the country to take up the scheme.
The event was attended by Fonterra representatives, dairy farmers and their families, milk tanker drivers and Chris Farrelly, the CEO of Manaia Health PHO, who was the man whose lobbying of the industry led to the introduction of the milk in schools programme.
More than 14 million Anchor milk packs, or the equivalent of almost three million litres of milk, have been delivered to schools the length and breadth of the country since the rollout began 12 months ago.
Fonterra spokeswoman Louise Aitken said 70 per cent of primary schools had signed up.