Available courses

Yr 5-6 Can sheep count?


Can Sheep read?

Based around the year 5 and 6 Science curriculum of living things, animals, evolution and inheritance, but also featuring links to Design Technology, Geography and History. This theme incorporates school lessons and activities both indoor and outdoor which through out the years natural and farming cycles cover:

1. How farmers select animals to breed from as a way into teaching about evolution and inheritance -  Autumn or Spring Term

2. Growing Plants in school and experiencing how they develop from seed to fruit - Spring or Summer Term

3. Using the products of the school harvest - Summer Term

4. Throughout the year pupils will see how farmers and growers keep animals and grow plants to produce the food you can buy in shops

GCSE Food Preparation and Nutrition

GCSE Food Preparation & Nutrition – Food Provenance.

How is your knowledge of the Eat Well Harvest?

You will all be familiar with the Eat Well Guide but the new GCSE Food Preparation and Nutrition with its section on food provenance now covers how these food groups are grown, reared and processed – the Eat Well Harvest as it where!

Is 5 A Day Killing the Planet?

“Is 5 A Day killing the planet?”

This Discovering Our Countryside teaching theme “Is 5 A Day killing the planet?” covers the Eat Well Harvest with its food stories on

  • Cereals Food Story - starchy carbohydrates
  • Beef Food Story - for the beans, pulses, fish, eggs and meat section
  • Fresh Produce Food Story - for the fruit and veg section
  • Dairy Food Story - for the dairy products section

“Man, with food has many problems man without food has only ONE!”

Equipped with the knowledge of these food stories pupils can then continue through the theme as it investigates the “problems” food miles, food waste, sustainability, food security etc that man with food faces.

Food Provenance

This course is designed to help with the teaching of Food Provenance for both Key Stage 3 and the Food Provenance section of the GCSE Food Preparation and Nutrition.

  • Where and how foods are grown, reared, or caught and the primary and secondary stages of processing and production.
  • How processing affects the sensory and nutritional properties of ingredients.
  • The impact of food and food security on the environment, local and global markets and communities.
  • Technological developments that claim to support better health and food production, including fortification and modified foods with health benefits and the efficacy of these

Pupils WorkbooksThe theme provides: 

  • Multimedia Interactive Lessons for pupils which feature
    • An entry point video which asks “Is 5 A Day Killing the planet?
    • Videos telling the 4 Eat Well Guide Food Stories.
    • Pupil Workbooks linked to each food story, which are self-marking.
    • Videos to use after they have done the food stories which develop understanding of today’s food problems and food sustainability.
  • Scheme of Work downloadable as pdf or Word for you to edit
  • Lesson plans. Electronic / on screen

 

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Yr 1-2 Are all your pets really alive?


Are your pets alive?

Based around the year 1 and 2 Science curriculum of living things, animals plants and seasonal changes, but also featuring links to Design Technology, Geography and History. This theme incorporates school lessons and activities both indoor and outdoor which through out the years natural and farming cycles cover:

1. Looking after animals. See how they develop from birth to adult-  Autumn or Spring Term

2. Growing Plants in school and experiencing how they develop from seed to fruit - Spring or Summer Term
Using the products of the school harvest - Summer Term

3. Throughout the year pupils will see how farmers and growers keep animals and grow plants to produce the food you can buy in shops

4. Throughout the year pupils will see how farmers and growers keep animals and grow plants to produce the food you can buy in shops

Yr 3-4 What goes in......


What goes in....

Based around the year 3 and 4 Science curriculum of living things, animals  and plants , but also featuring links to Design Technology, Geography and History. This theme incorporates school lessons and activities both indoor and outdoor which through out the years natural and farming cycles cover:

1. Looking after animals, in terms of how just like humans they need a balanced healthy diet -  Autumn or Spring Term

2. Growing Plants in school and experiencing how they develop from seed to fruit - Spring or Summer Term

3. Using the products of the school harvest - Summer Term

4. Throughout the year pupils will see how farmers and growers keep animals and grow plants to produce the food you can buy in shops

 

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