General
Educational Games And Resources, EGAR, has created a Healthy Eating Choice Discussion card set to encourage young people to explore what Healthy Eating is and their understanding of it. The card set highlights healthy foods and diets and how important it is for this to be maintained to keep the body healthy. Click Here for more details.
Join Alisha, Jordan, Nicola and Ronnie as they explore healthy eating, cooking and where food comes from through six exciting stories. The stories have been designed to support cross-curricular/inter-disciplinary learning and are accompanied by a variety of classroom resources. They are ideal for interactive whiteboards. To see the 6 stories click here.
The NFU has a range of materials including leaflets, recipe booklets, activity books, stickers and more all designed to help children learn about Great British food and farming. Click here for details.
Food hubs are a fun way for children and school communities to learn about local food systems and how to run a self-sufficient social enterprise. This learning can have strong links to the school curriculum. A food hub can also be a source of income for the school. Click here for a pack designed to help you set up a food hub in your school.
Lessons in Loaf is a free guide from the Real Bread Campaign to help teachers plan and run bread making classes. It includes lesson plans and information to help create follow on work that uses bread as a topic across a range of subjects at Key Stage 2. In addition, where the Campaign knows a professional Real Bread baker willing to pass on skills, they will help make an introduction to a local school. Click here
The Meat and Education website offers a series of six modules designed to support KS3-4 student understanding of meat production, nutrition and preparation, each comprising a PowerPoint presentation, teachers’ notes, classroom activities, curriculum links and links to other resources. Read more.
Bake Your Lawn is the Real Bread Campaign's scheme to encourage kids to take a handful of wheat and grow it, mill it, bake it, eat it. Teachers, parents and community youth group leaders wanting to lead children on the Real Bread journey from seed to sandwich click here.
Education News has released a colourful montage of images relating to healthy eating, cooking and where food comes from. For lots of ideas on how to use this poster and to download copies click here.
Our food carries so many labels and logos nowadays but what do they all mean? The web-based Farm Behind the Food provides an information base for teachers and shows how farmers work to each of the standards as well as the classroom activities.
Food a fact of life has produced a range of videos highlighting important skills, practical tips and recipes. Whether it's non-cook recipes or investigating baking, there are plenty of these free videos to show to your class.
The Fruit-Full Schools Website provides schools with the necessary information required to use their grounds to design, grow and maintain their own traditional orchards. This includes downloadable information such as step-by-step growing guides, fruity fact sheets, top tips and real-time learning from participating schools.
DairyCo has launched a new consumer website to provide information about British dairy farming. Though not aimed directly at schools, it is a useful source of facts and figures and has a video flyover of a typical dairy farm. Click Here
The Food for Life Partnership is an exciting and inspiring project that celebrates growing and cooking food, and aims to transform school and community food culture. As part of this project Garden Organic, the UK’s leading organic growing charity, has produced a Food Growing Manual. This resource is packed with practical advice and activities on growing organically and is FREE to schools enrolled on the project. The manual gives information for all ages on how to start and maintain an organic food growing garden. For more information on growing and the Food for Life Partnership click here
Get involved in food growing in schools by joining in with a fun event by the Royal Horticultural Society. But hurry, there are only a limited number of packs remaining! Schools can secure their Get Your Grown-ups Growing pack now and take part in this exciting new RHS project in October. As part of the RHS Campaign for School Gardening supported by Waitrose, the project helps schools to utilise local resources to enhance children’s education and get everyone growing. Click Here
The Potato Council project is back by popular demand and schools can sign up now to receive a free growing kit containing everything they need to grow a successful crop of potatoes. Backed by a new easy-to-use website schools can download curriculum-linked resources incluuding lesson ideas, worksheets and games. Taking part teaches children about healthy eating and growing plants and can help your schools to achieve Eco School status.
Channel 4 has created various recipes for different age groups to get kids cooking during the holiday. Please click here then select get kids cooking.
SmallSteps4Life directs young people to activities and programmes that get them involved with growing, preparing and cooking food. Teachers registered are able to promote what their school is doing, nominate their 'Young Activators' and share their experiences to inspire other UK schools.
The School Food Trust website offers teachers lesson plans, seasonal food charts, resources on how to promote school meals to parents and much more.
Nutrition education printables are fun activities that encourage learning and discussion about healthy food choices and nutrition. Kids will learn about the food pyramid, healthy eating, nutrition vocab, food groups and much more. To view the worksheets click here
Food a fact of life have a selection of videos which demonstrate correct food preparation techniques that can be used on interactive whiteboards. To view these videos click here
Agriculture-4-U is a video diary of UK Agriculture and what happens down on the farm. It is a resource for teachers to use in the teaching of various subjects and to various age groups with a view to promoting a better understanding and an unbiased picture of agriculture in the UK. For more information click here.
LEAF Virtual Farm Walk - great interactive opportunity to find out all about farming and the environment. Two real farmers, Sally and David, are ready to show you around the virtual farm. There are lots of fun things to do on the walk, with lots of fascinating facts about farms and the animals and plats that live on them. Challenges also include pond-dipping and sorting food chains from field to shop. To view LEAF virtual farm click here.
The British Nutrition Foundation has produced five Promethean flipcharts to support teaching of healthy eating in primary schools. The flipcharts are entitled - Food, Healthy eating, Composite dishes, Energy, and Nutrients. Food and healthy eating are aimed at younger primary (age 5-7), composite dishes are aimed at 7-9 and energy and nutrients aimed at 9-11. To find out more about these resources click here.
British Nutrition Foundation has a variety of posters to provide teachers and students with accurate and concise reference information. The poster, 'What are nutrients?' provides detailed information on the functions and sources of nutrients. Posters can be ordered off the British Nutrition Fundation website.
Funding available for cooking clubs - if your school already has a cooking club, you might be eligible to recieve funding and resources from Lets Get Cooking. To apply please visit http://www.letsgetcooking.org.uk/associate
British Nutrition Foundation have enhanced their award winning website www.nutrition.org.uk. The new site features better search functionality, improved navigation, updated information sheets and e-commerce for posters, CDs and conference places.
The Food- a fact of life website has produced a downloadable Food Route game. To view/order please click here
The Food - a fact of life website has launched three posters to help support food teaching in your school. The posters are A-Z (a food alphabet), Get Ready to Cook and Farm to Fork. To buy please click here
The Food- a fact of life website has designed 5 activities to help teach important concepts about The eatwell plate. The activities are also progressive, introducing different concepts at different stages. Some of these activities include make a balanced plate, make a healthy lunchbox, unmuddle the meals and Alisha and Ronnie.
The Department for Children, Schools and Families has launched an exciting cook book for children in their last year of primary school. Real Meals - Simply Cooking - Cold Food that Tastes Great contains 20 healthy recipes to help children develop their cooking skills. For more information visit www.teachernet.gov.uk/realmeals
From September 2008 it has been compulsory for KS2 & 3 pupils in Wales to teach food and fitness as part of the curriculum. For more information follow this link.
Let’s Get Cooking is recruiting schools across England to set up after-school cooking clubs. Over the next three years they will visit every Local Authority and would like to hear from people, cookery groups, healthy eating programmes and schools that they should contact when they come into Local Authority areas. For more information visit this link.
The Grain Chain explains how wheat is grown and used to produce breads and breakfast cereals. The website offers a range of media to engage young people, including: interactive whiteboard activities, information pages, activity sheets, quizzes, videos and games. There are also full teacher's notes, with curriculum references, lesson plans and homework/extension ideas. www.grainchain.com.
Since September 2008 all primary schools in England need to provide at least one portion of fruit and one portion of vegetables or salad per pupil per day. The School Food Trust has some helpful ideas on ways to encourage pupils to eat fruit and vegetables [on this link]
Think Food and Farming is a project led by Farming and Countryside Education whose primary aim is to educate children about food and farming in a sustainable countryside. Their activities and resources will promote teaching in many parts of the curriculum including PSHE, Science, Design & Technology and Geography. Follow this link.
Let’s Get Cooking is a national network of cooking clubs across England, helping children, their families and the wider community to learn and develop new cooking skills. Find out more here.
There is a wealth of information available to encourage schools to grow their own fruit and vegetables in window boxes, plastic containers and gardens. Below is a selection of useful links.
The Royal Horticultural Society is currently campaigning for School Gardening. For a detailed plan on how to grow your own vegetables at school [click here]
Rocket Gardens are supporting growing in schools by sending hundreds of gardens to schools as part of their Dig for the Future campaign. [click here]
For a comprehensive guide to growing four different vegetables with a class of children over a summer term [click here]
For a Key Stage 1 lesson plan on growing your own [click here]
For encouraging pupils to grow their own potatoes [click here]
For information on grow your own workshops, age 8+ [click here]
Geography
The National Sheep Association’s resources for teachers include an introduction to the UK Sheep Industry and an A-Z of Sheep Breeds. www.nationalsheep.org.uk > About the Industry or click here.
English
The Honeycomb Challenge helps children develop their English skills by asking them to use food related words in sentences. To view the board game click here
Science
RSPCA has produced 12 new farm animal resources for KS1 & 2 and Early Years pupils. The free resources include fun activities to help children understand where their food comes from, the use of labelling and how they, as consumers, can make a difference to farm animal welfare. You can also order a free full-colour farm animal photo pack to accompany the resources. See www.rspca.org.uk > education or click here.
PE – Eating and Health
British Nutrition Foundation have developed a series of sessions in the areas of Healthy eating, Cooking and Food and farming to help help children to develop a deeper understanding of how to eat healthily and perpare dishes, as well as to appreciate where their food comes from. The sessions include powerpoint presentations, card activities, e.g. jigsaws, board games and sorting tasks, colourful food images, recipes and certificates. All resources are free to download from www.foodafactoflife.org.uk
The Great Grub Club website is aimed at 4-7 year olds and is produced by World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF UK). It has plenty to keep young people occupied including A-Z of fruits and vegetables, recipe suggestions, food facts and quizzes. www.greatgrubclub.com.
New interactive games ‘Where do my meals come from’ help children match the food on their plate with its origins. It is aimed at 5-7 and 8-11 year olds and can be played on an interactive whiteboard or on stand-alone computers. On completion, the children can print out their results and the print-outs can be used as a display. Go to www.foodafactoflife.org.uk > Resources > Interactive Activities or follow this link.For ‘vegetable flash cards’ featuring a different vegetables and vegetable-themed quizzes for KS1 & 2 pupils go to www.thinkvegetables.co.uk > Learning Resources or follow this link.
To download fruit and vegetable word searches for young children with interesting and nutritional facts go to www.waitrose.com > Food > Health and Nutrition > Healthy Eating for Children > Games and Puzzles or follow this link. |
