a whole school approach to food & health - lessons learned in scotland
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A whole school approach to food & health - Lessons learned in Scotland
Claire HislopDevelopment Manager - Food & HealthHungry for Success Positive School/Whole Child EthosPartnership WorkingPupil ConsultationEliminating StigmaManaging the ProcessInfluencing ChoiceIncentives to Improve Uptake of School Lunches
Schools (Health Promotion & Nutrition) (Scotland) 2007
A duty on Scottish Ministers, education authorities and managers of grant-aided schools to endeavour to ensure the schools are health promoting.A duty for education authorities and managers of grant-aided schools to ensure that all food and drink provided in schools complies with nutritional requirements specified by Scottish Ministers in regulationsA duty of education authorities to promote school lunches and, in particular, free school lunchesA duty on education authorities to protect the identify of those receiving free school lunchesA duty on education authorities and managers of grant-aided schools to have regard to any guidance issued by Scottish ministers on the application of principles of sustainable development when providing food or drink or catering services in schoolsHealth and wellbeing in Curriculum for Excellence
Supporting policy
EffectivePartnershipsConsultationCommunicationWhat has changedChanges to food and drinks on offer and how these are promotedImproved dining facilities Better links to the curriculumMore effective partnerships and communications
Menus
Changes to the service
Innovative ways to get new customers..
Use empty space
Reducing queues
Pre-orderingStaggered lunch hoursSupport for younger pupilsCashless catering
Incentives and promotions
Theme Days
Support for staff
Healthier Scotland Cooking Bus
Links with school catering
Working in partnership
Food for Thought resources
These resources looks at ideas for food as a context for interdisciplinary learning and how curriculum for excellence supports learning about food and health.The poster, in the form of a mind map illustrates the different ways we engage and learn about food. It is intended to be definitive the poster aims to stimulate practitioners and learners to think about food across the curriculum and beyond.Food for Thought a Scottish Context
These resources aim to support the learning about Scotlands food and drink through well planned interdisciplinary learning.Food for Thought Skills progression
This resource provides support materials that can be used to plan learning and teaching approaches to help with the delivery of the broad general education of Curriculum for Excellence.The focus of the resource is the curriculum area of health and wellbeing in particular the Food and Health and Technologies experiences and outcomes.Food Education Partners
The Food Education Partners are all funded by Scottish Government and work collaboratively to support schools with food education.
950 schools across Scotland have engaged with the food education partners, thats 30% of Scottish Schools.Food for Thought: Education Fund
A million pound fund to offer nursery/schools in Scotland the opportunity to apply for up to 5,000.The aim is to build the confidence and capacity of practitioners to improve learning and teaching within food education in curriculum for excellence using national initiatives such as the 2014 Commonwealth Games and The Scottish HomecomingIt is required thats schools identify and work in partnership with a local business to enhance the project and consider how to link the activities to the events of 2014. Each project will be individual as will the nature of support from the business link.Links with school cateringBonhill Primary, East Dunbartonshire
Each week 4 pupils work as part of the school catering team to cook the school lunches and serve.Pupils report they have made changes to their own diets because of their practical experience and now opt for more fruit, vegetables and salad choice.East Dunbartonshire Council have worked hard to ensure all health and safety measures are in place to allow this partnership to happen.Food for Thought: Education Fund- examples St Brides & Bothwell Primaries, South Lanarkshire
The funding will go towards supporting a link shared garden between St Brides and Bothwell Primary Schools.The schools will use cutting edge technology, ICT and the shared garden to educate each other, parents and the community in growing and developing sustainable food, whilst also selling the produce onto a local fruit shop.The project will involve parents, pupils, school staff, grandparents and the local horticultural society with the Year of Natural Scotland and the Commonwealth Games as a classroom linking theme.What next.Better Eating, Better Learning A new context for school food
Beyond the School Gate Thank you claire.hislop@nhs.net
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