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Burravoe Primary, Cullivoe Primary, fish, growing, practicalcookery, ScottishFood

Burravoe and Cullivoe Fish Recipes and Rainbow Harvest

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This is a copy of a report 2 of the children were asked to write for the local newspaper.

Burravoe and Cullivoe Schools Food For Thought Project

Burravoe Primary School and Cullivoe Primary School have been awarded a Food For Thought grant from Education Scotland so they can learn about the Shetland aquaculture industry. Burravoe and Cullivoe Schools are both Crofting Connections Schools; Crofting Connections is one of The Food Education Partners which all receive funding from the Scottish Government and work collaboratively to support schools with food education. They are closely connected to the Food for Thought projects.

The children at Burravoe have been making one lunch every week this term. All of their recipes that they have chosen are fish dishes. They have been planning their own salads to go with the dishes; they have been trying different salads to broaden their taste buds.  As part of this year’s Crofting Connection project Burravoe are growing the Rainbow Harvest; Burravoe will be using the Rainbow Harvest food in their dishes.

Every week the children are split into 4 groups, they are all mixed so there are little ones and big ones. They have to prepare the salad and lay the salad onto the plate to make it look presentable and appetizing.

They read the fish recipe and start on the salad. So far they have made spicy red haddock, cod fish fingers and salmon parcels next they have decided to make salmon fish cakes.

Burravoe has been trying different salads because they are going to grow their own salad for their lunches.

By Charlotte  P7 and Mia  P6

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Something Fishy!

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PM Packaging (Parkers Packaging) event on 10th February @ St Mary’s Primary School for P6 – 38 children in two sessions

AM Packaging (Parkers Packaging) event on 10th February @ Holy Cross Primary School for P2 – 50 children in two sessions

SeaFood Event arranged by Marie Clare – with support from Waitrose and FishistheDish – @St Thomas of Aquin’s covering St Thomas of Aquin’s, Holy Cross, St Marys, St Marks, St Peters Primary. Children tasted different types of fish, learned more about the benefits of eating fish, saw fresh crabs and other seafood and saw a live cookery demonstration.

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Yell Aquaculture – working with NHS Shetland

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Nicola Balfour from NHS Shetland’s  Health Promotion Unit has been to talk to children from both schools about the importance of fish and shellfish as part of a healthy diet. She reminded us about the ” Healthy Plate” and then talked to us about how fish can help the different parts of our body. We learned about how much eating oily fish can help our brains, our eyes and our joints. She also told us that fish has collagen in it so we should eat fish and not need expensive face creams!

Nicola left us with some great healthy eating recipe books to take home and share with our families.

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Yell Aquaculture – Business Partners

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We are very lucky to have some very enthusiastic and supportive business partners to help us with our project. We have been able to have a meeting where we all got together to plan visits to their workplaces and for them to visit us. We are able to use some of our grant to pay the transport costs for all the pupils of both schools to visit a local mussel farm and a well boat whose home port is on the island.

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Yell Aquaculture – Burravoe and Cullivoe Primary Schools

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Burravoe and Cullivoe Primary Schools on Yell, Shetland, are just starting their joint project learning about the importance of fish in a healthy diet. Aquaculture is an important part of life on Yell and we are lucky to have several local businesses who are going to help us find out about fish and shellfish. We are planning to share what we learn with members of the community and are using ICT to share more widely. The two schools are 20 miles apart and whilst we have planned to share some visits we have also created a Glow Group for us to use for sharing resources and for virtual collaboration; we are learning about the new tools in Glow that will help us work together. We are using most of our funding to pay supply cover so that staff can have time to plan and reflect both together and with other partners and also for transport so that we can visit various industry sites around the island.

We are planning to use animation as one way to share learning. This is an animation made by a P1 who is learning how to animate.

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Growing Global Food Citizens

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A 5-day exploration of sustainable food in Scotland – Click here to see the fantastic programme the cluster will experience – growingglobalfoodcitizens
Growing Global Food Citizens is a 5-day continuing professional development course for teachers.
Edinburgh City Council and Eco-Schools Scotland, together with Whitmuir Organics and six Edinburgh primary schools – Craigour Park, Carrick Knowe, St John’s, Davidson Mains, Gracemount and Murrayburn – successfully submitted a collaborative bid to the Food for Thought Education Fund 2013-14.
The Food for Thought funding award enables:
• Eco-Schools Scotland to facilitate the development of a professional learning community to share good practice and collaborative learning.
• Whitmuir Organics, a working organic farm with on-site butchery, kitchen, restaurant and shop, to design, write and deliver a 5-day course to 12 teachers (2 from each school) to increase their knowledge and confidence in identifying and understanding sustainable food systems.
• Each of the 6 schools to undertake practical projects in their own schools.
The first 5-day course is scheduled to run on: 12 November and 3 December 2013, 14 January, 11 February and 18 March 2014.
Whitmuir Organics
EH46 7BB
www.whitmuirtheorganicplace.co.uk
01968 661908
info@whitmuirtheorganicplace.co.uk