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Food and the Environment with Eve KeepaxTRANSCRIPT
Food and the EnvironmentEve Keepax
Food and the Environment Officer
How the Eco-Schools programme
works� Schools register on-line
� Three Award levels� Bronze – self assessed
� Silver – self assessed
� Green Flag – assessment visit to school
� Schools renew Green Flag status every two years
� Seven Elements & Ten topics(litter, waste, energy, water, health, school grounds, biodiversity, transport, global citizenship, food and the environment)
The 7 Elements
1.Eco-Schools
Committee
2.Review
3.Action Plan
4.Monitoring
&
Evaluation5.Curriculum
Work
6.Informing
&
Involving
7.Eco-Code
10 Environmental Topic Areas
• Health & Well Being
• Waste Minimisation
• School Grounds
• Sustaining our World
• Food and the Environment
• Litter
• Energy
• Transport
• Water
• Biodiversity
Website navigation
Topic sections in online guide
What is contained in this topic?
Food and the Environment Topic
Objectives
Hands
• Reconnect children and young people with raw foods and ingredients and their processes of production.
Heart
• Foster an appreciation of local distinctiveness and the intimate associations between place and food.
Head
• Develop awareness of the impacts on the environment of different methods of food production and processing.
Head - heart - hands
• Develop an awareness of the links between our food choices, the environment and people and places elsewhere
Curricular Mapping - Third Level
Food and the Environment
Eco-Schools Scotland Website
Food and the Environment Topic
Actions• Growing and Harvesting
– Range of produce, animal husbandry
– Soil science, local distinctiveness
• Using Food– Preparing and eating
– Procurement
– For sale or distribution
• Food Waste– Canteen
– Packaging
• Wider Issues– Food Miles
– Ethical choices
– Food culture
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