Topic 5 KS2: How do we make choices about the food we eat?

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In this section we have included activities that will enable children to consider how they might make more active choices about what they eat. These activities can be carried out by individual classes or could form part of a whole school initiative linked to the Citizenship curriculum. Discussions could be fed back to a school council, and taken on board by the staff and governors.

We hope that schools can find opportunities for pupils to have an input into the decisions being made about food in their school for example; establishing rules for appropriate break time snacks, behaviour codes in the dining room, or incentive schemes to encourage healthy eating. The government has recognised the importance of pupil input; the consultation of children about school food policies is a requirement of the National Healthy School Standard (DfES 1999).

Resources for this topic

Activities

1 The influence of others…
2 Taking a closer look at food advertising
3 Developing a point of view
4 Making decisions about the food we buy
(the above are provided as a single PDF)

Activity sheets for topic 5

13 What would they say?
14 Food adverts on TV

Teaching resources for topic 5

12 Decisions, decisions

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© Soil Association 2003. Curriculum pack supported by Organic South West through European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund and All Saints Educational Trust