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About the Food for Life project The Food for Life initiative has been set up in partnership with the
Soil Association and the food brand Organix. Working from the belief that
children have the right to a decent school meal, an alternative model
of school meal procurement has been developed and piloted in five schools.
The project's objective is to encourage schools to source a greater quantity
of healthy, organic and local food for their canteens, thereby providing
meals of higher nutritional value to their pupils. More about Food for Life » www.foodforlifeuk.org
Format of the curriculum pack Within each of the five topics in the pack there are a number of activities with accompanying activity sheets and teaching resources. Many of the activities and resources are appropriate for both key stage one and two with notes on how to adapt them. We recommend that you laminate the colour illustrations in the teaching resources so that they can be used repeatedly. The teachers notes contain links to organisations doing excellent work on food education, many of whom provide free educational resources with loads of ideas and activities.
Schools' workshops The Soil Association is developing an interactive one day workshop to complement the curriculum pack. The workshop will be aimed at key stage two and will include a series of practical activities designed to inspire pupils and teachers about the issues surrounding food and its production. The project is being developed in association with Organic South West. For more information contact education@soilassociation.org
Linking with the National Curriculum The activities link most closely to the National Curriculum objectives for science, geography, PSHE and citizenship. Individual activities could therefore be selected from the education pack and used by teachers for those curriculum areas. Our Scottish pack includes Scottish curriculum links.
A Citizenship Topic We feel that the issues addressed in the pack lend themselves to a scheme of work for Citizenship, which could be adopted by the whole school or a key stage over a half term, and would provide opportunities for debate and participation across year groups.
A Year Six Project A food and farming project using the Food for Life curriculum pack could be an excellent post SATs project for Year 6, combining skills and knowledge from a range of curriculum areas, and enabling pupils to consider important personal and social issues prior to leaving for secondary school.
A Whole School Food Week For schools who are participating in the Food for Life procurement scheme it may be that the topics and activities form the basis of a “Food Week”, where all activities are linked to food, including Art, D&T, Literacy and Numeracy. We would recommend using the introductory topic “What is the role of food in our lives?” as a way beginning the activities of Food Week. In addition, the Children would need to start a Food Diary (from Topic 3) early in the week before, so they could analyse it in the middle of Food Week. The five topics could each be covered on one of the days, perhaps rotating Topic 4 so that each year group could have a day doing practical activities. Another way to organise the week, would be to have some kind of practical
element each day, and then spend two days on one of the other topics.
This would work well for example, if one or more year groups did a farm
visit on one day, and then used some of the activities from Topic 2 as
a follow up the next day. Perhaps they could also do a presentation to
the rest of the school about what they had seen and learnt.
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