The Grab 5! Curriculum Pack provides ideas for classroom activities related to food, nutrition and the Grab 5! message of eating more fruit and vegetables, that link directly with elements of the national curriculum.

The aims of this pack are:

• To engage the children in fun, thought-provoking and interactive activities which encourage them to consider what foods they eat, why they make these food choices, why, on average, children don't eat as much fruit and vegetables as is recommended, and what they can do to improve their own diets.
• To provide activities that directly meet the requirements in the national curriculum.
• To provide teachers with a material which is flexible and easy to use. The pack has been designed so that it can either be used as a complete course on the topic of healthy eating or it can be dipped in and out of, with teachers picking out the activities of most relevance to the work they are already doing for the various subjects.
• To provide ideas of activities that take the 5 a day message home to parents and other family members.
• To provide activities that bring curriculum work alive by making links with whole school projects that may be going on in the school as part of the Grab 5! project. For example, data around fruit preference collected from tuck shops could be used in ICT lessons.