Creating a great food culture in your primary school - a drop in for primary heads, senior leaders and governors

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Presenter and organisation: Frances Meek and Claire Theobald, British Nutrition Foundation

Join Claire and Frances to find out how Food – a fact of life can support your crucial role in creating and embedding a great food culture in your school.

Claire and Frances will showcase a free food education implementation ‘toolkit’, to help you strengthen your whole-school approach to healthy eating, reduce staff workload through ready-made lesson plans and training materials, and ensure that pupils develop the essential knowledge and skills to make informed, healthy food choices for life.

The Food – a fact of life education programme provides a whole‑school, ready to use food curriculum: compliant, progressive, and proven — with easy, immediate implementation!

What will be covered?

· The role that heads, senior leaders and governors can play in creating a culture and ethos of healthy eating

· Embedding a whole school approach to food and the benefits to your pupils, staff and the wider school community

· Enabling your colleagues to give consistent messages about nutrition in lessons and at lunchtime, as well teaching pupils about where their food comes from and how to plan and cook healthy and sustainable drinks, snacks and meals

· The free curriculum compliant resources available to you and your colleagues to support pupils’ learning

· Links to Food – a fact of life resources

Audience: Primary heads, senior leaders and governors