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Integrating an ethos of safe, tasty, nutritious and environmentally
sustainable food into the curriculum
Food topics covered within curriculum areas (check content, year
group, timing etc.)
- Art, e.g. observation drawings of food, healthy eating poster
design
- Personal Social and Health Education, e.g. menu planning, nutrition
- Design and Technology, e.g. cooking, designing tools
- English, e.g. food diaries, following instructions
- Geography, e.g. what food grows where, food miles, transporting
food, waste
- History, e.g. past diets, discoveries
- Information Technology, e.g. recording results of a food survey,
website review
- Maths, e.g. weights and measures
- Physical Education, e.g. links between healthy eating and exercise
- Science, e.g. effects of heat on food, plant growth, nutrition
Topic cross reference (check to see where and how these issues
are covered in the curriculum)
- Nutrition
- Dining
- Cooking (any out of hours activities? external demonstrators?)
- Menu planning skills
- Food hygiene (e.g. common food poisons, bacterial growth, contamination,
washing hands, temperatures, storage, cleaning and disinfectant,
pests)
- Cultural diversity
- Food production, marketing and labelling
- Recycling
- How plants grow
Examples of activities that could support curriculum work
- Relationships with local food businesses, e.g. farms, shops
and restaurants (encourage food professionals such as chefs to
come into the classroom, and arrange for pupils to visit their
premises).
- Tasting sessions (integrate a range of eating experiences into
classroom work, e.g. tasting fresh, dried, juiced, frozen and
canned fruits and vegetables)
- Cooking demonstrations
- Healthy eating drama activities
- Healthy eating projects
- School website with pages on food issues and links to other
related sites
- Debates / guest speakers
- Eating experiences integrated into the curriculum for all subjects.
- School gardens (give pupils the opportunity to plant, harvest,
prepare, cook and eat the food they grow).
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