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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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Grow and Sell Kits at St Peter’s Primary School

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After supporting a local school via Food for Thought Programme, Waitrose donated a Grow & Sell Kit to St Peter’s Primary School.

Grow & Sell kit – children get all they need to grow vegetables and Waitrose committed to buy the vegetables from them.

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Lochgilphead Primary 7’s – International Schools Meals Day

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The 33 P7s in Ms Craven’s class have been planting chickpeas and learning about the food and culture of Cyprus.

The lovely dinner ladies decorated the canteen and made tasting pots of hummus and moussaka. The kids all took home their planted chickpeas and a recipe card for hummus (minus the tahini ingredient as difficult to buy in Lochgilphead!).International School Meals Day

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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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Andover Primary

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT

EVENTS AT ANDOVER

Andover Primary was successful in applying for a bid from Food for Thought in September 2013.  This meant we had a grant of £5000 to support the development of food education and an understanding of the provenance of local food as well as developing additional links with the community.

A link was developed with a Nutritionist at Robert Gordon’s University and several community events were planned at which pupils, mainly those attending the School Cooking Club, could showcase their skills.

The first event was a Harvest Meal in October.  This was sourced, with support from Brechin Community Council, from many local producers. The menu was selected following a competition for Scottish dishes organised within the Brechin cluster. The winning dishes were prepared by the children in school.

Prior to the meal every child in Andover (a big school) visited a local producer and did follow up activities. This was funded through the project and organised with the help of Carol Littlewood from RHET. Visits included a dairy farm, smoking house, strawberry farm, poultry farm, an arable farm as well as the co-operative farm in Blairgowrie.

Over one hundred guests attended the supper.

This month a Scottish Event is being hosted. Not only will guests enjoy a three course Scottish meal, but entertainment including music and poetry.

All pupils now have a much greater understanding of where our food is grown and its journey.  The Cooking Club pupils in particular have a very good knowledge, understanding and practical experience of basic cooking skills including using a knife correctly, the importance of a varied diet, including fruit, eating together, manners and basic food hygiene.

Many of the Health and wellbeing outcomes have been achieved and everyone has had a lot of fun and enjoyment.

Liz Howson

Andover Primary School