{"id":3339,"date":"2015-06-09T10:03:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T09:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StThomas\/?p=3339"},"modified":"2015-06-09T10:03:22","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T09:03:22","slug":"food-for-thought-education-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StThomas\/2015\/06\/09\/food-for-thought-education-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Food for Thought Education Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a result of our school\u2019s continued efforts to promote healthy eating and sustainable growing, we are delighted to announce St Thomas\u2019 successful bid to Education Scotland\u2019s <strong>Food for Thought Application Fund<\/strong> which has awarded us <strong>\u00a33000<\/strong>.\u00a0 <em>The fund was set up to improve learning and teaching within food education in Curriculum for Excellence using national initiatives such as the\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eventscotland.org\/funding\/year-of-food-and-drink-2015\/\"><em>Year of Food and Drink Scotland 2015<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>and\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.legacy2014.co.uk\/\"><em>Commonwealth Games Legacy<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em> Indeed, we are one of only two schools in East Renfrewshire that made a successful funding application!<\/p>\n<p>St Thomas\u2019 will use the fund to extend opportunities for our pupils to grow produce in different conditions by buying, for example, an outside poly tunnel to cultivate a variety of fruit and vegetables. The produce would then be harvested and used, for example in class cooking activities, promoting a sustainable food system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a result of our school\u2019s continued efforts to promote healthy eating and sustainable growing, we are delighted to announce St Thomas\u2019 successful bid to Education Scotland\u2019s Food for Thought Application Fund which has awarded us \u00a33000.\u00a0 The fund was set up to improve learning and teaching within food education in Curriculum for Excellence using &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StThomas\/2015\/06\/09\/food-for-thought-education-fund\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Food for Thought Education Fund<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2946,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StThomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StThomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StThomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StThomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2946"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StThomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StThomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3340,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StThomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339\/revisions\/3340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StThomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StThomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StThomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}