Category Archives: nutrition
Something Fishy!
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.
Andover Primary
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
Cardinal Newman Food for Thought launch 10th January
An Interdisciplinary Project with Business IT, Food Technology, St Andrews Hospice and Warburtons will build capacity of S1 learners encouraging educated food choices. Challenged to design a healthy food product for athletes, learners explore new products on the market, careers in the food industry, product development ,sustainability, marketing and promotion.
http://standrewshospicefundraising.com/standrewshospiceschools-blog/
https://www.sfdf.org.uk/sfdf/schools_programme/
http://www.warburtons.co.uk/
Yell Aquaculture – working with NHS Shetland
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.
Yell Aquaculture – Burravoe and Cullivoe Primary Schools
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.
Growing Global Food Citizens
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
