Resources & Links
Resources
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The snack swapper wheel
A New Change for Life Resource |
 On October 19 Change4Life launches its Snack Swapper. The Snack Swapper is a little wheel device that shows healthy options to sugary, salty or fatty snacks. For instance, if you usually like to snack on a biscuit, turn the wheel to reveal the word biscuit in one window and in the opposite window you will see a healthier option such as rice cakes or grapes.
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Hands up for Max!
A Guide to handwashing |
The Health Protection Agency in partnership with an animation company, Vis-IT Ltd, schools and other key agencies have developed a resource pack to teach handwashing in primary schools. The pack links in with the school curriculum using animation, lesson plans, an art competition, posters and much much more.
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Real Meals
Free Copy for every Year 6 pupil
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The DCSF has launched the next cookbook in the 'Real meals' series. 'Real meals: simple cooking — cold food that tastes great' contains over 20 recipes for simple, tasty and healthy cold food such as deli wraps, rainbow salad and muffins. All are great for picnics and as packed lunches for days out during the summer holidays.
Copies for every Year 6 pupil are available free of charge to primary schools.
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Primary Cookit |
 Primary: Cookit
E2BN's Cookit site has a good range of activities related to healthy eating, including recipes, food history and healthy eating guidance. more...
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Healthy Packed Lunch Leaflet |
This leaflet was produced by Miss Forbes a teacher at Westfield First and Nursery School and is a valuable tool for schools when working with parents to improve packed lunches. We hope it helps you when working with parents on improving packed lunches.
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The Schools FEAST network |
In 2006 the government introduced the food based standards aimed at improving the quality of school meals. The nutrient standards will be introduced into primary schools in September 2008, followed in September 2009 into secondary schools. These will require schools, local authorities or catering providers to ensure that an average school lunch meets specific standards for energy and contains certain levels of 13 nutrients, including iron, calcium and zinc. The School FEAST network will, over time,support everyone involved in providing school meals, and their employers, to access training and qualifications. In meeting this challenge, every member of the network will provide a comprehensive package of training and qualifications, from hands-on cookery lessons to formal qualifications at NVQ Level 2 and beyond.
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Pick up the Beat |
The Beat campaign aims to inspire and motivate you to get exercising. The campaign message is clear - that if we up the tempo of our heartbeat for just 30 minutes a day, we could reduce our risk of heart disease by half.
This site includes a wealth of features on how to get active and eat healthily, plus how to cut out major risk factors such as smoking. There's also an interactive quiz which helps you to set your own health goals, and a free mobile text messaging service to give you support and motivation.
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Think Vegetables |
This website continues to be the definitive source of information about vegetables. As well as information on all the main vegetables including how to use and store them, you will find delicious recipes, stunning photography and nutrition information.
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Food Partnership Programme – Free Training Programme |
Improving the eating habits of future generations is more likely to be realised by ensuring primary school children are taught healthy eating, practical food skills and food hygiene right from the start.
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Grub! - Board Game |
An exciting board game about food and healthy nutrition. The aim is to collect a plateful of food by answering a series of True & False questions of varying levels of difficulty - depending on the age or Keystage of the player - about the five food types or general food facts. A fun way to learn as you play! The game can be ordered from Hertfordshire Supplies, £11.33, reference: 220563. |
Myleene and Frank say ‘healthy school dinners are cool’ |
Celebrities including Frank Lampard and Myleene Klass have leant their support to the School Food Trust. Following the success of the first posters for dining halls our new celebrity posters are being sent to schools in time for the start of the new term. Anecdotal research, including some you may have seen on BBC 2’s, The Truth about Food recently, shows how positive peer pressure can influence children’s choices. As a result of feedback from our last posters these can be downloaded from the SFT website A3 or A4 black & white or colour so you can print and laminate them.
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Dig for their Future |
To launch the ‘Dig For Their Future’ campaign we are offering every school in the country a free instant organic kitchen garden along with free internet based teaching, learning and information support
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5 A Day "top tips for top mums" |
This strategy is aimed
at parents with children aged under 11 and encourages parents to give their
children more fruit and vegetables.
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Active Kids Get Cooking Challenge 2010 |
The Active Kids Get Cooking Challenge is open to all pupils aged between 5-16 years, and all schools across the UK (including the Channel Islands and Service Children’s Schools).
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Healthy Lifestyle
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Composting for schools |
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Breakfast Club Plus |
Breakfast Club Plus is a UK-wide network that supports breakfast clubs. Their website provides guidance for new clubs and information and best practice for established clubs. Whether you are looking for information on starting a club, the benefits of breakfast clubs, funding, charging, nutrition, additional activities, policy and regulations you will find it in these pages.
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Food Partnership Week 25th - 29th June 2007 |
The Food partnership is promoting the offer of free training in practical food skills to teachers by food specialists during Design & Technology Week. By running recruitment events in 6 regions the food partnership aims to enlist more secondary food teachers to become trainers and more primary teachers to sign up for training from them. Food Partnership programme is the only DfES accredited provider of practical food skills for primary school teachers; training is completely free to primary schools; training is given by specialist food teachers who provide consistent clear advice on nutrition and kitchen hygiene. The events have been designed to be inspiring, fun and informative with practical taster sessions, presentations and a display of take –away resources at each venue. Booking forms for the events will be placed on the Design and Technology website by mid may.
Working with your regional Food Partnership trainer, who will be setting up the event in your area, will give you a chance to influence the emphasis of the day. To find out more about the regions where events will take place please contact the Food Partnership at: fpweek@gmail.com |
Food in Schools Toolkit |
This Food in Schools Toolkit provides inspiration, advice and materials to support you in promoting and implementing a whole school approach to healthier eating and drinking.
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Useful Web Links
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This website aims to expose every food, drink and medicine which contains the additives. In September 2007, scientific research confirmed that mixtures of artifical food colourings and a commonly used food preservative can increase hyperactive behaviour in susceptible children. These additives have not been banned. Companies continue to put them into children's food and children's medicines. |
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This site recognises excellent healthy eating work and cooking by pupils in primary, middle and special schools throughout the UK (including the Channel Islands and Service Children’s Schools). Active Kids Get Cooking is the new name for Taste of Success. |
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Site of the British Nutrition Foundation: provides details of their publications, education packs etc, as well as giving food facts to help students complete food projects.
Posters are available to buy form this site.
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This website has been designed to make learning about your heart fun for children. There are healthy food ideas, interactive educational games and competitions. |
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Moving on to High School - Healthy Eating, Staying Active Factsheet for Parents |
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Fruit and vegetables help set you up for a healthier lifestyle. Best of all, there is so much variety to choose from, all year long, there's enough to keep even the fussiest eaters happy.
To get the best health benefits, your 5 A DAY portions should include a combination of a variety of fruit and vegetables. That's 5 portions altogether, not 5 portions of fruit and 5 portions of veg. |
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The RSA founded Focus on Food Campaign. Established to raise the profile and strengthen the position of cooking in primary and secondary schools nationwide. The Campaign produces high quality teaching and learning materials including COOK SCHOOL the termly food education magazine for teachers; delivers an outreach support programme using four Cooking Buses, ‘state of the art’ mobile kitchen classrooms; trains teachers; organizes Focus on Food Week; presents annual lectures and lobbies for more and better provision for food education in schools. |
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The Food for Life Partnership is a five-year Lottery-funded initiative, led by the Soil Association, to transform food culture in schools and communities across England, bringing together the practical expertise of the Focus on Food Campaign, Garden Organic and the Health Education Trust. |
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This website will provide valuable guidance and resources for anyone working in or with a school on food related activities throughout the school day, including teachers, parents, school governors, head teachers, pupils and health professionals. |
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Heartwise Science is an exciting online resource for secondary school science teachers in the UK, who want to continue their professional development. There are compact curriculum linked lesson plans, downloadable Powerpoint presentations and the latest research information. Current topics include:
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Hertfordshire Catering is an integral part of both Hertfordshire Business Services and Hertfordshire County Council, catering for 440 primary schools (serving 40,000 meals every day) and 50 secondary contracts. |
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HCHS is an NHS organisation responsible for providing a range of universal and specialist out of hospital services to the over one million people living in Hertfordshire.
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NHS Hertfordshire is the name for Hertfordshire Primary Care Trust (PCT). They are the local NHS and are responsible for arranging healthcare for everyone who lives in Hertfordshire. They assesses the needs of the people of Hertfordshire, plan out the services to meet those needs and arrange with health care providers to deliver the services. A really important part of what they do is to support local people to keep healthy. This means that they promote healthy lifestyles, for example eating well, drinking sensibly and not smoking. |
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The School Food Trust was established by the Department for Education and Skills in September 2005. Its remit is to transform school food and food skills, promote the education and health of children and young people and improve the quality of food in schools. |
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The Growing Schools website has been designed to support teachers and practitioners in using the "outdoor classroom" as a resource across the curriculum for pupils of all ages. |
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The Environment and Education Centre is located in Clay Lane, Bushey.
The Education Team aims to support teachers by providing stimulating and exciting hands-on experiences which will enrich curriculum work in school. All activities have been risk assessed and Centre staff CRB checked. Support for the school's First Aider is provided. We lead the sessions, leaving you free to enjoy the day and to observe the children. |
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the fifth year, the British Dietetic Association (BDA) launched their
annual Weight Wise campaign targeting teenagers and their families.
The lack of physical activity combined with unhealthy eating habits
is really taking its toll on youngsters' health, it is no wonder
that obesity levels are rising at such a huge rate. There is no real
help or guidance provided for teenagers.
However, the BDA campaign
'weightwise: the next generation' has developed a new website packed
full of info and advice for teenagers. They can log on to find out
how much more energy they could be burning off by checking out the
'Get Moving Calculator'. For teens and parents alike there are some
fantastic recipe ideas, tips on how to get more active as well as 'Shifting
The Balance' - an interactive feature that allows you to find out just
how much fat and sugar is in the everyday food they eat.
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For KS2 pupils: visiting the 'learning' zone, students can find out
how to choose healthy meals. |
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Aimed at KS3 pupils: covering a number of topics including healthy eating,
provides a number of food facts based around the Balance of Good Health,
tips on food hygiene and an interactive quiz about eating habits. |
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For KS4 pupils: the healthy eating section of this site looks at how
food influences health, how to achieve a balanced diet and provides
links for students to investigate topics such as food and body image
in further detail. |
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The British Dietetic Association campaign
"Food First" has produced some factsheets
to be used in primary schools. |
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Public TV gives fast and free access to
high quality government, public sector, professional training, and business videos. |
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This is an engaging website to help young people make healthy lifestyle choices on eating, physical activity and smoking. There are also downloadable science diagrams of the heart, a problem page section and fun interactive games. |
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