The Curriculum Pack website is intended to provide practical information advice and tips for schools wanting to encourage pupils to eat more fruit & veg.

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Section 1: The Grab 5! Curriculum Pack

About Grab 5!
About the Grab 5! Curriculum Pack
How to use this pack
Tasting is the key!

Starting from children's own ideas
1. How can we stay healthy?
2. What have we been told about staying healthy?
Is there such a thing as healthy and unhealthy food?
3. What foods should we eat to be healthy?
4. What do we need to know about eating a healthy diet?

Developing understanding
1: What is healthy eating?
2: What is a balanced diet?
3: The Balance of Good Health plate
4: Do we eat a balanced diet?
5: Snack attack!
6: What are nutrients?
7: What is the Grab 5! campaign?
8: Reading food labels
9: Can we understand the information on food labels?
10: Who influences our choice of food?
11: Looking at TV advertising using role play
12: Should children be free to choose what they eat?
13: What are the rules about food at school?

Working towards a healthier diet
1: Getting started
2: Planning a campaign
3: How to get children to eat more fruit and vegetables
4: Case studies
5: Whole school Grab 5! activities
    Planning healthy menus and cooking
    Challenges and competitions
    Write a letter to parents
    Posters and leaflets
    Recipe books

Art

Design and Technology
1. Keeping safe
2. Design and make
    Sandwiches
    Fruit drink
    Plate of salad
    Packed lunch
    Suggested themes for other D and T activities involving food

English
Speaking and listening
1. Memory game
2. Guess it and eat it
Reading and comprehension
3. James and the Giant Peach
4. You are what you eat
5. No peas for the wicked
6. Women gardeners
7. Rena's Promise
8. Cider with Rosie
9. Reading food labels
10. Children's food
Creative writing
11. A day in the life of Ronald
12. An A to Z of fruits / An A to Z of vegetables
13. Strings of fruit and vegetables
14. Vocabulary list
15. Writing slogans
16. Writing frames
    Frame 1: Explanation
    Frame 2: Description
    Frame 3: Making comparisons
    Frame 4: Procedures
    Frame 5: Persuasive writing

Geography
1. Which foods come from other countries?
2. Food miles
3. Asking geographical questions
4. Comparing prices
5. Waste

History
1. The Romans
2. The Tudors
3. The Victorians
4. Britain during World War 2

Information Communication Technology
1. Databases and surveys
2. Desktop publishing
3. Use of the internet

Maths
1. Sequences
2. Ordering fruit
3. Hidden messages
4. Market stall - a game for 2 players
5. Fruit machine - a game for 2 players
6. How much do they weigh?
7. Get cracking
8. Tricky puzzles
9. Weighing and measuring through cooking
10. Puzzles involving weighing and measuring
Using and applying data
11. Carroll diagram
12. How many portions?
13. Comparing advertised foods with the Balance of Good Health
14. Bella's food diary
15. Grab 5! survey sheet
Answers

Science
1. Why we need food?
2. Looking at different parts of a plant
3. Growing plants
4. When are different fruits and vegetables in season?
5. Classifying fruits and vegetables
6. Why does food spoil?
7. How do food ingredients change with cooking?

1. Blank Balance of Good Health plate
2. Balance of Good Health plate
3. Which food group?
4. Seven ways to a healthy diet
5. Diets of imaginary people
6. My food diary
7. What's in the food we eat?
8. Looking at the role of TV ads
9. Grab 5! survey sheet
10. Grab 5! campaign messages
11. Tips for parents wanting their children to eat more fruit and veg
12. A-Z of fruit and veg
Certificates
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