School Resources ListThe following is a directory of web resources on school food issues for school staff. You can go to a specific section by clicking on the shortcut links below.
Eco Schools is a website for an international award programme providing a framework to help embed sustainability principles into the heart of school life. The site includes a resources and links section with useful information including a spreadsheet listing funding sources available to schools. The Food for Life website offers Gold, Silver and Bronze awards to schools and caterers, plus the opportunity for parents to nominate their child's school for the award. The national Food in Schools programme offers training for primary school teachers and HLTA’s in teaching cooking. Food in Schools supports the Healthy Eating core theme of the national Healthy Schools programme. Growing Schools has a free year planner for schools with food growing guide, teaching links, recipes and tips on observing wildlife. Harvest Brighton & Hove is the Food Partnership’s food growing project which supports schools with practical advice, small grants, networking meetings and website resources and recipes. This includes advice on funders, such as Awards For All or the national Funding Central website. The School Food Trust offers comprehensive and detailed guidance, policy information and case studies on all aspects of school food. It also acts as an essential source of information on school food issues. Sustain is a good introduction to school food issues and food issues in general, providing information on the latest campaigns including the Children's Food Campaign, numerous on-line publications and downloadable guides (which can be accessed here). Action on Additives is a site campaigning to remove additives from food, listing products containing the worst additives, as well as resources for primary and secondary school teachers. Active Kids Get Cooking is a packed lunch challenge for children including resource list & links. The British Heart Foundation site includes recipes and a healthy kids section. Teachers' resources, including books, activity sheets, posters and leaflets can also be found here. The British Nutrition Foundation website includes the Eatwell Plate, as well as offering a reliable and wide-ranging section for schools. Chew on this is a website offering information on fats, sugars, salt and their effects on performance, as well as activity sheets and advice on food labels. Continyou offer advice on setting up and running a breakfast club, curriculum-linking information and breakfast club activity guides. Food Dudes is an initiative developed by Bangor University psychologists to encourage and maintain healthy eating habits in children. The website is a good source for healthy eating information and teaching resources. The Food for Life website offers Gold, Silver and Bronze awards to schools and caterers, plus the opportunity for parents to nominate their child's school for the award. Food Vision provide a toolkit with resources & National Indicator information. The Grain Chain is aimed at children, encouraging them to eat healthy wholegrain foods. The site includes games and activities for children and teaching resources for teachers. Grub4Life is a website designed to provide a forum for individuals concerned with weight issues. It aims to provide a supportive environment and resources for its members. The Health Promotion Agency has published a guidance PDF on breakfast clubs. The Healthy Lunch website is packed with resources and information on healthy lunches and packed lunches. Requires setting up a login (no fee). Highland.gov have provided 24 pages of healthy packed lunch information from Scotland including policy guidance. My School Lunch raises awareness of school lunches whilst educating children, their parents and teachers about healthy eating and an active lifestyle. The website has sections for teachers, children & parents. The NHS Live Well 5 a Day website contains information on healthy eating and tips on how to get your 5 a day, as well as recipes, games, posters and other resources to download. School Food Trust have provided a downloadable PDF packed lunch toolkit. School Food Trust informational PDF on standards for school foods other than lunch. (See pages 12-15 re: breakfast; page 12 for resource list.) The HGCA's Shake Up Your Wake Up campaign has lots of breakfast recipe ideas, including nutritional info. The West Midlands Food Network has a packed lunch guide. See the Healthy Eating section of the Brighton & Hove Food Partnership website for information on eating well, weight management and obesity. Through the Healthy Weight Referral Scheme, the Food Partnership directs clients to its services. The BBC Gardening site features a children's section detailing the basics of gardening, a plant finder data base, gardeners calendar and links to growing-related sections on the BBC site. The Royal Horticultural Society's Campaign for School Gardening features sections for both teachers and students. The Community Composting Network site has case studies, news, training & events aimed at growing in schools. Edible Playgrounds features ideas and inspiration to help get you started in creating a food-producing garden for your school. Includes projects and resources for teachers & children. Farm Garden allows you you to search for local city farms and community gardens, as well as providing access to published guides on gardening, some of which are free. Garden Organic provides PDF leaflets for teachers and students on a wide range of growing methods, activities for school gardens and easy to grow instructions. GrowIt is one of the curriculum strands for the (chargeable) Open Futures skills and enquiry-based learning programme for schools. GrowIt engages children in horticulture. Expert guidance helps teachers and their pupils gain the confidence to employ all of the skills and techniques required to establish and run a fully-fledged edible garden. Growing Grub is a step by step guide for teachers to grow food in schools. The site includes detailed sections on growing and a teachers' guide to organising activities, including indoor activities and activity cards for pupils. Growing Schools provides support for teachers using the outdoor classroom as a curriculum resource. The site also features places to visit, support and training and advice for early years teaching. The Herb Society schools website is designed for pupils at Key Stages 1 and 2 to use on their own or with support, with some pages for teachers. Magpie Environmental Trust is a Brighton-based non-for-profit company focused on increasing awareness of recycling and composting. The website contains information on recycling and composting, with activities for children. The RHS site offers advice on growing fruit and veg, including advice on container gardening and on preserving food. Sustain is a good introduction to school food issues and food issues in general, providing information on the latest campaigns, including the Children's Food Campaign, numerous on-line publications and downloadable guides (which can be accessed here). Soil-net is a resource for KS1-4 about soil, with NC links. Pages and materials are divided by Key Stage. The site includes activity sheets, fact sheets, puzzles, games, school gardening and composting advice, as well as guides on growing mushrooms and building wormeries. The Academy of Culinary Arts has a Chefs Adopt a School programme which links professional chefs with schools to teach children about nutrition, cooking and food hygiene. The Active Kids Get Cooking programme encourages healthy eating and cooking in schools. The site provides teaching resources, allows schools to register for free and offers certificates to give to students for good food work. The Cookery Circle website has over 70 articles written by experts on how to set up and run a cookery club. There are sections on cookery clubs for children with recipes and practical advice on a range of issues, aas well as a useful section on cookery clubs for parents. The Focus on Food site provides practical food education. They run a national cooking bus programme which schools can apply for. The website also includes recipes, cooking techniques, resources, news & events. The Food Forum website is produced by former Food in Schools Programme S. E. coordinator & school food consultant Ali Farrell. It features curriculum advice for primary and secondary schools with templates, worksheets and educational resources, an alphabetical index of food-related websites and a glossary with ‘ask the expert’ sections. The Food for Life website offers Gold, Silver and Bronze awards to schools and caterers, plus the opportunity for parents to nominate their child's school for the award. The national Food in Schools programme offers training for primary school teachers and HLTA’s in teaching cooking. Food in Schools supports the Healthy Eating core theme of the national Healthy Schools programme. Jamie Oliver’s site for his school dinner campaign includes a manifesto & facts and figures. The website also includes gardening tips, information and updates on other campaigns, such as Jamie’s Ministry of Food. The Kitchen Academy is a Brighton-based cookery teaching organisation providing cookery workshops, demonstrations and courses, hire of smoothie bikes and other educational and food-related event services and equipment. Olly Dawson is a Brighton-based community chef who offers cookery classes, workshops and demonstrations for a broad range of clients, including schools and families. Lets Get Cooking is a network of cooking clubs for children, families and their communities across England, helping people learn cooking skills. They offer advice on setting up a cookery club with recipes – including 2012 Olympics-themed recipes. License to Cook is a programme aimed at students in maintained secondary schools in England. It provides a programme template to enable students to learn to cook and understand the principles of diet and nutrition, health and safety and wise food shopping. Sainsbury's Active Kids is a supermarket voucher collection scheme – vouchers can be exchanged for cooking and sports equipment. The BBC Food site lists food in season by month, with recipes for each. The site also includes recipes for special diets, including vegetarian, vegan, dairy/egg-free, etc. Big Barn is a local food website helping people to find good, safe, accountable food from local sources. The site also includes information on local and seasonal food and recipes. The BBC show Big Cook Little Cook has an interactive website for kids which includes fun and creative recipes for children, plus games and activities. Carrots 4 Kids has fun carrot-related activities and facts for children. Cracking Eggs is an educational website for children about eggs, which includes games, activities and recipes. There is also a section for teachers with NC links, classroom resources and downloadable worksheets Eat Seasonably provides facts, resources and recipes on eating seasonally as well as what to eat now & what to grow now sections. The Food Magazine archives at the Food Commission website are a good source of articles focusing on a wide range of food issues, including food advertising to children and school meals. Grub4Life is a website designed to provide a forum for individuals concerned with weight issues. It aims to provide a supportive environment and resources for its members. Harvest Brighton & Hove has a massive selection of recipes listed by season. Love British Food is a website promoting British Food Fortnight, focusing on ‘British’ recipes and produce. The site includes a resource pack containing lots of curriculum-linked activities covering all subject areas (see resource list pp. 18). Teachers Zone has a class resources section. The NHS Live Well 5 a Day website contains information on healthy eating and tips on how to get your 5 a day, as well as recipes, games and posters and other resources to download. Nicholas Clee is a New Statesman food columnist & author. His blog includes recipes and articles including one on miracle fruit, which alters the flavour perception and tastebud reaction to foods that are sour and sweet. Peas.org is a good source of information about peas, including facts, figures, videos, links and recipes. Potatoes for Schools is a project that teaches primary-aged children about potatoes. Children learn how potatoes grow and how they fit in to a healthy, balanced diet. Register your school to receive a free potato growing kit, use the supporting lesson plans and worksheets & enter the competition once you have harvested your potatoes. The RHS website has plenty of seasonal recipes & gardening activities for children and information on its campaign for school gardening. There are a number of websites that focus on a specific food. These sites offer facts, health information and recipes, so if you're looking for something specific, check out new ways to use up lettuce, beetroot, celery, some fantastic pork recipes, or just some information on the British meat or cheese industry. Action on Additives is a site campaigning to remove additives from food, listing products containing the worst additives as well a resources for primary and secondary school teachers (which can be accessed here). Banana Link is a website dedicated to banana issues – social, economic, political and fair trade. It features resources, information and news updates from around the world. The Fairtrade Foundation website has photo libraries, films, resources, reports and recipes. Fish and Kids is a Marine Stewardship Council project bringing sustainable seafood sourcing to schools and restaurants. Children can learn about marine environmental issues and sustainable fishing through fun activities. The Food for Life website offers Gold, Silver and Bronze awards to schools and caterers, plus the opportunity for parents to nominate their child's school for the award. The Friends of the Earth website includes a section for educators including info on how to green up your school, resources, case studies and links. The Grain Chain is aimed at children, encouraging them to eat healthy wholegrain foods. The site includes games and activities for children and teaching resources for teachers. Love British Food is a website promoting British Food Fortnight, focusing on ‘British’ recipes and produce. The site includes a resource pack containing lots of curriculum-linked activities covering all subject areas (see resource list pp. 18). Teachers Zone has a class resources section. The Love Food Hate Waste campaign aims to raise awareness of the need to reduce food waste. The website gives practical everyday ways to waste less food. The Oxfam Education site offers school speakers on range of topics including fair trade (£30 for presentations/workshops of ½ to 1 hour). The site also has numerous resources and lesson plans for a range of age groups on a variety of topics e.g. bananas. There are also activities with links to curricula such as English, science, geography, citizenship, etc. Oxfam also have an interactive web resource called Milking It, aimed at 13 to 16-year-olds, including info and activities about farming and international trade, with a focus on the dairy industry. The School Milk Project provides support to schools and local authorities across the country on the provision of milk for schools. Sustain is a good introduction to school food issues and food issues in general, providing information on the latest campaigns including the Children's Food Campaign, numerous on-line publications and downloadable guides (which can be accessed here). The Vegetarian Society website offers educational resources across Key Stages 1-4 in a range of curriculum areas, plus information services and a Youth Education Officer to support teachers and students. The Farming And Countryside Education website features a network of demonstration farms, resources, information and links on farms and farming. Farms for Schools offers guidance for school trips to farms, lists of farms to visits, resources and activities for farm visits. Learning Outside the Classroom provides advice for schools on learning outside and guidance for teachers on farm visits. Think Food and Farming promotes healthy living by offering children and young people direct experience of the countryside, farming and food through growing and cooking activities, and visits to farms. Middle Farm is a Sussex-based open farm with a farm shop. Schools are welcome. Plumpton College Children’s Rural Education Centre offers educational visits to the demonstration farm and INSET training days for teachers. Their farm visit coordinator for schools is also the LEAF representative for the South East and is very knowledgeable about the potential links between farms and education. Seedy Business is the website for Moulsecoomb Forest Garden, which offers school visits, including pick and cook activities. On-site there is an earth oven, compost loo, wattle and daub wendy house and a living willow tunnel for kids. A large treehouse/shed/outdoor classroom is currently being rebuilt after being destroyed in a fire, a project that is bringing together community members, local schools, including school children from the Alternative Centre for Education (a school for pupils at risk of exclusion) and youth offenders. Whitehawk Community Food Project is an established and productive community garden including fruit, vegetable and herb beds, polytunnels, ponds and a forest garden/orchard area. The site has been developed for people to learn, enjoy and participate in organic, biodynamic and permaculture techniques and principles. The Woodland Trust Nature Detectives programme offers lots of fun packs for doing outdoor activities with children across the seasons. The activity packs are free to download, and sometimes free tree packs are also available. The Community Composting Network site has case studies, news, training & events aimed at increasing compost education and initiatives in schools. The GreenCycle Sussex (Brighton) website has items wanted and offered all for free. See also Freecycle Brighton, GreenCycle Hove and FreeBrighton. KPS Composting is a local organic waste recycling scheme offering services to communities and businesses. They also provide a mobile composting service & sales of compost soil conditioner. The Love Food Hate Waste campaign aims to raise awareness of the need to reduce food waste. The website gives practical everyday ways to waste less food. Magpie Environmental Trust is a Brighton-based non-for-profit company focused on increasing awareness of recycling and composting. The website contains information on recycling and composting, with activities for children. Ollie Recycles is a site for teachers and children in the UK, USA and Australia. The site includes Three R’s work and games, puzzles and teachers' notes. Recycle More has plenty of recycling & waste reduction information. The schools section includes facts, projects, activities, games, and links. Soil-net is a resource for KS1-4 about soil, with NC links. Pages and materials are divided by Key Stage. The site includes activity sheets, fact sheets, puzzles, games, school gardening and composting advice, as well as guides on growing mushrooms and building wormeries. TJ Composting is a local source for compost soil conditioner in different grades made mainly from local authority civic amenity site and landscape contractor green waste. WRAP's schools programme advises on improving and sustaining the recycling of school waste. The website includes activities to engage pupils, case studies and links to teaching resources, awareness posters and recycling point signage stickers supporting recycling schemes at school. The Brighton Peace & Environment Centre offers teacher training, curriculum support and access to a specialist library and resources, including info sheets on environment and food topics. Membership costs £50 per year per school. The Brighton Permaculture Trust is a local permaculture organisation - promoting greener lifestyles and sustainable development through design. (Permaculture is based on the philosophy of co-operating with nature and caring for the earth and its peoples, observing local ecologies and applying creative principles). They offer courses, events and projects applying permaculture principles delivered by local experts. Brighton Green Pages is a guide to greener living in Brighton & Hove. The guide lists organisations and business under a range of themes including Food & Drink and Waste & Recycling. Printed copies are available from the Brighton Peace and Environment Centre. Climate Connections is a project looking at impacts of climate change in Brighton & Hove and beyond through individuals’ stories. The Green Centre is a Eco-centre in Whitehawk, offering recycling of unusual items, an A-Z recycling guide, workshops, library, teaching space, garden and a calendar of eco events in Brighton. The GreenCycle Sussex (Brighton) website has items wanted and offered all for free. See also Freecycle Brighton, GreenCycle Hove and FreeBrighton. Harvest Brighton & Hove is the Food Partnership’s food growing project which supports schools with practical advice, small grants, networking meetings and website resources and recipes. The Kitchen Academy is a Brighton-based cookery teaching organisation providing cookery workshops, demonstrations and courses, hire of smoothie bikes and other educational and food-related event services and equipment. The Magpie Environmental Trust is a Brighton-based non-for-profit company focused on increasing awareness of recycling and composting. The website contains information on recycling and composting, including activities for children. Middle Farm is a Sussex-based open farm with a farm shop. Schools are welcome. Olly Dawson is a Brighton-based community chef who offers cookery classes, workshops and demonstrations for a broad range of clients, including schools and families. Plastic Bag-Free Brighton is a campaign to make Brighton & Hove plastic bag-free and encourage the use of reusable bags. The site includes resources such as fact sheets, posters and a short film. Plumpton College Children’s Rural Education Centre offers educational visits to the demonstration farm and INSET training days for teachers. Their farm visit coordinator for schools is also the LEAF representative for the South East and is very knowledgeable about the potential links between farms and education. Seedy Business is the website for Moulsecoomb Forest Garden, which offers school visits, including pick and cook activities. On-site there is an earth oven, compost loo, wattle and daub wendy house and a living willow tunnel for kids. A large treehouse/shed/outdoor classroom is currently being rebuilt after being destroyed in a fire, a project that is bringing together community members, local schools, including school children from the Alternative Centre for Education (a school for pupils at risk of exclusion) and youth offenders. Whitehawk Community Food Project is an established and productive community garden including fruit, vegetable and herb beds, polytunnels, ponds and a forest garden/orchard area. The site has been developed for people to learn, enjoy and participate in organic, biodynamic and permaculture techniques and principles. The publications page on Ali Farrell’s Food Forum website has a list of books and resources on food, cooking and the curriculum. The Comic Company have colourful resources – posters, postcards, teaching packs on a range of health topics including healthy eating. Common Ground has a list of publications, videos and links relating to British fruit and orchards. DEFRA have resources and facts on best practice in sustainable public-sector food procurement. The Department for Education also has information on planning and providing school meals. Food for Life has a number of case studies from the Food For Life Partnership. The National Audit Offices guidance on smarter procurement - browse ‘food procurement’ within the site. School Food Trust - browse the food procurement section within the site and download ‘A Fresh Look at School Food Procurement’. WRAP's schools programme advises on improving and sustaining the recycling of school waste. The website includes activities to engage pupils, case studies and links to teaching resources, awareness posters and recycling point signage stickers supporting recycling schemes at school. The Food Partnership's Activity Reports Year 6 Supermarket Challenge (PDF 4.6MB) is a healthy eating educational activity run by the Food Partnership in 2010. The aim of the activity is to remind Year 6 pupils about balanced nutrition at lunchtime in an interesting and fun way, and prepare them for entering secondary school, where they will have more control over what they bring or buy for lunch. Picture diary report on healthy lunchbox workshops in schools (PDF 4.7MB) Report on Breakfast Clubs (PDF 1.7MB) Report on Pupil-led Composting (PDF 1MB) Report on Twilight Teacher Training (PDF 2MB), with ideas for setting up a low-maintenance school garden and how to incorporate learning about food into the curriculum. Stefan's picture diary report on Creating a Permaculture Garden(PDF 3.9MB) |
