Addressing the Whole Food Agenda

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Addressing the Whole Food Agenda

• Barbara Mottershead
• Education Consultant
• 07900265227
• Email mottershead_b_at_msn.com

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Be Aware of the Big Picture -how can each of
these help you?

• Much greater recognition of food on educational
  agenda
• Key Stage 3 National Curriculum review is looking
  promising
• GCSE review
• Whole school agenda - strong move for food to be
  addressed in widest sense in schools
• Healthy Schools Standard - encompasses healthy
  eating criteria
• Food Partnership in demand nationally
• Nutrition Standards for School Meals now in place
• Secondary Strategy materials to raise standards
• Every Child Matters

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Make it all about food

• Place the main emphasis on practical skills
• Make sure healthy eating and nutrition
  strengthened
• Be ready for 2008 - Licence to Cook - the
  government has made it clear that most schools
  will use their food technology lessons for this
  and that only qualified or trained teachers
  should deliver it
• Cooking as a life-skill is important
• Awareness about diet, activity, lifestyle patterns

Food Technology
Catering
Home Economics
Cooking
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Progression in food at KS3?
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Make it practical

• Opportunities to develop cooking skills
• Teach theory through practical activities
• Include product evaluation - learning from
  existing products
• Safety and hygiene through developing good
  working practice
• Develop practical thinking skills (designing
  skills)

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The Healthy Schools Standard

• Play a part in meeting the standard
• A healthy school
• ensures provision of training in practical food
  education for staff, including diet, nutrition,
  food safety and hygiene
• ensures that pupils have opportunities to learn
  about different types of food in the context of a
  balanced diet (using the Balance of Health), and
  how to plan, budget, prepare and cook meals,
  understanding the need to avoid the consumption
  of foods high in salt, sugar and fat and increase
  the consumption of fruit and vegetables
• (criteria from the Healthy Schools Standard)

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Food Partnerships - whats in it for me?
http//www.foodinschools.org/fis_toolkit.php
look for Food Partnerships

• To develop food and nutrition education,
  specifically practical work, as a key learning
  activity
• More and better practical food education takes
  place in primary schools as a result
• An interchange of experiences between primary and
  secondary colleagues, promoting continuity and
  progression
• Specialist secondary teachers provide CPD and
  support for primary colleagues, strengthen
  cross-phase work, enhance secondary schools
  community programmes
• A whole school food audit is conducted and used
  to identify future actions - implementation of a
  whole school food policy

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Know whats happening at KS1 and KS2?

• Y1 Eat more fruit vegetables
• Y2 Dips and dippers
• Y3 Lunchtime snacks sandwiches, samosas, spring
  rolls
• Y4 Super salads (on DATA website)
• Y5 Bread or Biscuits
• Y6 Multi-cultural celebration

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Use whats out there

• BNF Food competencies
• Secondary Strategy materials
• Design and Technology Framework materials
• Active Kids Get Cooking
• Food in Schools - Fit Food
• FSA Core Competencies

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Make effective use of ICT

• E-capability/E-maturity
• Food for a PC v7
• Boardworks - interactive whiteboard activities
• Safety and Hygiene e.g. Birchfield, Creative
  Learning Solutions

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Know whats what on the Internet

• Tuck In teaching resources - www.bmesonline.org.uk
  
• FoodForum - www.foodforum.org.uk
• BNF - www.nutrition.org.uk
• Food a Fact of Life

• Chew on this
• Food Standards Agency
• Flour and Grain Education Programme
• Food in Schools (Fit Food) www.foodinschools.org

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Keep Design and Make in proportion

• Dont waste time repeating endless Design and
  Make cycles
• Teach knowledge and understanding through focused
  practical activities
• Find out whats happening in other areas of
  design and technology
• Use a mixed economy of units including short/
  long, focused/open, gender, variety of contexts,
  product analysis, start at various points, etc.

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and finally .

• food technology education exists to help
• children develop knowledge and skills and
• to
• appreciate and enjoy food
• understand food as a material
• appreciate safe hygienic use of materials,
  tools, equipment
• carry out food preparation,processing and
  production
• sensory evaluation
• be critical consumers
• apply designing and making skills