Useful links
Curriculum
http://www.foodafactoflife.org.uk
This website provides a progressive approach to teaching about healthy eating, cooking, food and farming from 3-16 years. The site provides a wealth of free resources to stimulate learning, ensuring that consistent and up-to-date messages are delivered.
National curriculum
http://www.food.gov.uk/healthiereating/nutritionschools/competencies
Food Standards Agency, Food Competency Framework - this sets out food skills land knowledge for young people aged 7-9, 11-12, 14 and 16 years+
http://www.licencetocook.org.uk
Licence to Cook
This website is designed for independent use by secondary school students aged 11-14 (Key Stage 3). The website will also be useful to anyone who is interested in how our food is produced and its effect on our health and the environment.
School food
http://www.myschoollunch.co.uk/kirklees/
This website is all about Kirklees school lunches, and there is a section for children, parents and teachers. Menus are displayed, there are fun games for the children, and lots of information for parents about school lunches in Kirklees. Teachers are able to access lesson plans and worksheets aimed at key stages 1 and 2 of the national curriculum.
http://www.schoolfoodtrust.org.uk
The School Food Trust website has a whole range of resources and downloadable tools to help with the introduction of the new food standards and the promotion of healthy food within schools.
The Food for Life Partnership is a national initiative aimed at transforming food culture in schools by revolutionising school meals, reconnecting young people with where their food comes from and inspiring families to cook and grow food. All schools can enrol to join the Food for Life Partnership and work towards a Food for Life Partnership Mark, which will be awarded to schools at Bronze, Silver and Gold levels.
http://millionmeals.schoolfoodtrust.org.uk
The Million Meals campaign focus is on helping schools to increase the number of pupils eating school meals by providing practical advice on the approaches which work best. This advice has been drawn from the experience of the schools, caterers and local authorities which have successfully increased their take-up.
Healthy eating
http://eatwell4life.kirklees.nhs.uk
This website is linked to the national government 'Change 4 Life' website, but will help people in Kirklees get information about eating well where they live. The website includes access to tips and easy ways for families to enjoy eating more healthily.
Food Standards Agency
5 A DAY
British Nutrition Foundation
Allergy UK
British Dietetic Association
This is an educational website, produced in consultation with teachers and educationalists. Cracking Eggs offers a wealth of fun and inspiring resources, recipes, and eggy information for teachers, parents and students.
This website provides a range of materials to support the teaching of children aged 5 through to aged 16. The 'grain chain' refers to the steps involved in transforming wheat into a wide range of food products.
Weight Management
Healthy Weight for Kirklees
Healthyweight4kirklees is a website which aims to to inform and engage people in Kirklees about weight management. There is useful infomraion on this site on the National Child Measurement programme which affects children in reception and Year 6.
The site also has handy leaflets which can be given to parents with informaiton as to why maintaining a healthy weight is important, and the steps that parents can take to help their family develop a healthy lifestyle.
Click on the logo below to access this website and it's resources:
Change for Life campaign
The change for life campaign will complements and reinforce school-based activities around healthy eating and physical activity. The campaign can also support schools when engaging adults, families, teaching and non-teaching staff in Healthy School activities, especially those around eating well and moving more.
The National Healthy Schools programme is aligned with the key campaign messages and its overall goal to help every family in England to eat well, move more and live longer.
A new Change4Life Schools Pack and has recently been produced. The Schools Pack aims to highlight the links between healthy living initiatives targeted at schools and to help support teachers and the schools delivery network encourage healthy eating and physical activity for children and families.
Oral Health
British Dental Association website for teachers and parents KS2 level.
http://www.betteroralhealth.info/
Wrigley's Oral Health Care in Action (for reliable oral health information)
http://www.dentalhealth.org.uk/
The British Dental Health Foundation (for reliable oral health information)
Food safety
Food link
http://www.eatwell.gov.uk/keepingfoodsafe
Keeping food safe
Body image and mental health
Beating Eating Disorders
Young Minds
Cooking
http://www.foodafactoflife.org.uk
Recipes
Focus on Food is a campaign designed to support the teaching of cooking in schools and the wider community. Cooking Buses are part of the campaign and registered schools will be able to access quality teaching resources, recipes and will also be able to apply for a cooking bus visit.
http://www.activekidsgetcooking.org.uk
This website has an extensive quality range of bakeware, kitchen tools and gadgets at affordable prices. For example our silicone muffin cases are found to be popular and durable, therefore suitable for cooking in classrooms.
This website has an extensive range of kitchenware that is proven to be popular with children of all ages. For example the Kuhn Rikon Colari paring knives come in bright colours and their own individual cases.
Breakfast clubs
http://www.breakfastclubplus.org.uk/
This is a UK-wide network that supports breakfast clubs by providing guidance for new clubs and information and best practice for established clubs.
Growing
http://www.potatoesforschools.org.uk/
Grow Your Own Potatoes (GYOP) linked to the curriculum for Primary Schools, is a Potato Council initiative that challenges Primary Schools to grow their heaviest yield of potatoes. FREE Rocket and Vales Emerald seed potatoes supplied by the British potato industry, and a growing kit are delivered to all schools who register to take part. This is a fun way to educate children about the potato's role in a healthy diet and how things grow.
http://www.growingisfun.co.uk/
http://www.greenfingers.yorkshirewater.com/
Yorkshire Water will come into schools to promote their 'One Million Green Fingers' campaign, which aims to create healthy gardens in 350 primary schools across the region.