Education Scotland are pleased to announce the launch of the Food for Thought: Education Fund. The fund was officially launched by The Minister for Learning, Science and Scotland’s Languages Dr Alasdair Allan and Rural Affairs Secretary Richard Lochhead at Castleview Primary, Edinburgh. The opportunity to apply for a grant from the Food for Thought: Education Fund will give practitioners scope to explore food education within Curriculum for Excellence. It is required that schools identify and work in partnership with a local business to enhance the project and consider how to link the activities to the events of 2014. Each project will be individual as will the nature of support from the business link.
The aim of Scotland’s first national food and drink policy is to promote Scotland’s sustainable economic growth by ensuring that the Scottish Government’s focus in relation to food and drink, and in particular our work with Scotland’s food and drink industry, addresses quality, health and wellbeing, and environmental sustainability, recognising the need for access and affordability at the same time. In providing the funding for the Food for Thought: Education Fund; Scottish schools are being given an exciting opportunity to enhance learning and teaching about food across Curriculum for Excellence as well as making connections to the world of work.
The Overall Aim of the Fund
To support practitioners to build on existing practice in food education across Curriculum for Excellence, potentially linking to national initiatives, and/or to address one of the following areas:
Increase the knowledge and skills of staff around food education
Sustained partnership working within the learning community to enhance food education for children and young people
A shared understanding of the progression of learning in food education from early to fourth level
Assessment approaches, reporting and profiling in food education are developed and shared
Exemplars of practice are developed, piloted, evaluated and shared in:
o IT in Food Education
o The role of food to overall health and wellbeing
o IDL around Food Education
o Outdoor Learning and Food Education
ASL and Food Education
Schools can now download the application and guidelines from Education Scotland’s website HERE
Education Scotland recently issued two food education surveys to serve early/primary and secondary sectors. They are intended to highlight two forthcoming exciting food education opportunities for schools whilst gathering intelligence about where schools currently are on their journey with food education, details below. There has been a very encouraging response to these surveys so far.
The results will allow Education Scotland and its Food Education partners to establish areas for support; sharing emerging practice and mapping practice across Scotland.
Education Scotland would appreciate your support in completing these surveys: the links are given below.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Early-PrimaryEducationSurvey
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FoodEducationSecondarySurvey
