This session is about students using the grill safely, as well as handling and preparing a range of ingredients. This session allows all students to build their confidence in the cooking area, learning where equipment is stored and how to work safely. It also provides you with another opportunity to assess their practical capability, e.g. safe use of equipment. You could use the practical observation sheet to help. During this session, students will make either a croque-monsieur or pizza toast, something which they would enjoy making at home.

This session is about creating a deli-style salad using a range of different ingredients. Students will be presented with the opportunity to cook a range of starchy foods, while simultaneously preparing other ingredients for their salad. This will test their organisational skills in the kitchen. It also challenges students to assemble and present their salad attractively. The session revisits and embeds essential knife skills which were introduced throughout sessions 1-5. It also provides you with the opportunity to assess students’ practical capability.

This section provides information to help teach about diet related health issues.

Development and maintenance of healthy teeth.

An overview of different health issues. Follow the link for further resources.

This section provides information to help teach about diet related health issues.

This provides an overview of digestion in the human body.

This story is about the Food investigators welcomed students from China to their school and explored Chinese cuisine and cheese-making. Includes a worksheet for recording cheese tasting.

Includes an easy to follow powerpoint presentation.

This set of resources developed by ‘British Nutrition Foundation’, form part of a series of successful lessons exploring healthy eating for children aged 5-7 years. This section provides you with detailed teaching plans, worksheets and presentations and also includes links to all the downloadable resources to support teaching of ‘people choose different types of food’.

This set of resources developed by ‘British Nutrition Foundation’, form part of a series of successful lessons exploring healthy eating for children aged 7-11 years.

‘This set of resources developed by ‘British Nutrition Foundation’, form part of a series of successful lessons exploring healthy eating for children aged 5-7 years . This section provides you with fun baking recipes and includes links to all the downloadable resources to support teaching of ‘Brilliant baking - recipe ideas for the primary classroom’.

Created for 7-11 year olds, this set of resources developed by ‘British Nutrition Foundation’, form part of a series of successful lessons exploring healthy eating for children.This section provides you with detailed teaching plans, worksheets and presentations and also includes links to all the downloadable resources to support teaching of ‘Healthy eating - Being active and looking after yourself are important for health’.

This story is about the Food investigators learn about healthy lunchboxes. This worksheet helps the children to plan a new healthy lunch menu.

This story is about the Food investigators learn about healthy lunchboxes. Includes guidelines for writing a Haiku poem.

In this story, Alisha helps Ronnie put together a colourful fruit and vegetable basket for his Grandma’s birthday. Includes worksheet which link types of food to their health benefits. Follow link to website for interactive white board resource.

In this story, Mrs Begum’s class learn about where potatoes come from by growing their own potato plant in a bucket.

In this story, Mrs Begum’s class learn about where potatoes come from by growing their own potato plant in a bucket. Includes instructions for planting and growing your potato.

In this story, Mrs Begum’s class learn about where potatoes come from by growing their own potato plant in a bucket. Includes Maths worksheet.

This multi-purpose teaching resource can be used in 3 different ways to help pupils learn about energy and nutrients.