Post on 19-Jan-2016
Supporting Practical Supporting Practical Cooking in Cluster Primary Cooking in Cluster Primary SchoolsSchools
Lois White, Legacy Development Officer
Overview…Overview…
• Who are Focus on Who are Focus on Food & what is The Food & what is The Healthier Scotland Healthier Scotland Cooking Bus?Cooking Bus?
• How we can support How we can support youyou
• Ideas for supporting Ideas for supporting your cluster primary your cluster primary schoolsschools
Who are Focus on Who are Focus on Food?Food?
• Launched in 1998Launched in 1998
• Cooking leader Cooking leader training across the training across the UKUK
• Cooking BusesCooking Buses
• The Cooking School The Cooking School at Dean Cloughat Dean Clough
• Work with a Work with a number of partnersnumber of partners
The Healthier Scotland The Healthier Scotland Cooking BusCooking Bus
• Launched in 2008Launched in 2008
• Scottish Government Scottish Government and Food Standards and Food Standards Agency Scotland Agency Scotland fundedfunded
• A tool to assist in A tool to assist in achieving National achieving National OutcomesOutcomes
• Encourage healthy Encourage healthy eating through skills eating through skills based sessions/trainingbased sessions/training
• Children, adults and Children, adults and CPD trainingCPD training
Policies we work Policies we work towardstowards
• Recipe for Success – Recipe for Success – National Food & Drink National Food & Drink Policy (2009)Policy (2009)
• Preventing Obesity in Preventing Obesity in Scotland - A Route Map Scotland - A Route Map Towards Healthy Weight Towards Healthy Weight (2010)(2010)
• Food Standards Agency Food Standards Agency Scotland – Food Scotland – Food Competences for Young Competences for Young PeoplePeople
• Curriculum for Curriculum for Excellence – Health and Excellence – Health and Well Being OutcomesWell Being Outcomes
How can we support you with How can we support you with cooking in your cluster primary cooking in your cluster primary schools?schools?
• Skill Up, Start Skill Up, Start Cooking packsCooking packs
• Skills SnippetsSkills Snippets• Cook School Cook School
website & appwebsite & app• Cook with Care Cook with Care
guideguide• Cooking Bus Cooking Bus
trainingtraining
Skill Up, Start Cooking PacksSkill Up, Start Cooking Packs• Support for teaching Support for teaching
age 3-11age 3-11
• Lesson planning guideLesson planning guide
• Teaching cooking skills Teaching cooking skills step-by-step guidestep-by-step guide
• 32 recipes with 32 recipes with teaching instructionsteaching instructions
• Cooking skills check listCooking skills check list
• Grow a soup guidesGrow a soup guides
• Nutrition/traffic light Nutrition/traffic light labelling for all recipeslabelling for all recipes
Order forms online: www.focusonfood.org/resources_equipment
Cook School Website & Cook School Website & AppApp
• Bank of recipesBank of recipes
• Search via Search via pupil age, pupil age, season, season, ingredient or ingredient or cooking skillcooking skill
• Wider learningWider learning
Visit: www.focusonfoodcookschool.co.uk
Cook with Care GuideCook with Care Guide
• Allergens & the lawAllergens & the law
• Sample risk Sample risk assessmentassessment
• The 4 C’sThe 4 C’s
• Knife safetyKnife safety
• General safety tipsGeneral safety tips
Order forms online: www.focusonfood.org/resources_equipment
Cooking Bus CPD Cooking Bus CPD TrainingTraining
Engaging with Cluster Primary Engaging with Cluster Primary SchoolsSchools
• Competitions e.g. Big Competitions e.g. Big Cook, Little CookCook, Little Cook
• Link to major events Link to major events e.g. Commonwealth e.g. Commonwealth Games, WW1 Games, WW1 Centenary, Year of Centenary, Year of Food & Drink 2015Food & Drink 2015
• Education Scotland Education Scotland CPD support CPD support framework to develop framework to develop practical food practical food skills/knowledge skills/knowledge within a clusterwithin a cluster
Contact usContact us
• lois@focusonfood.org
• joanne@focusonfood.org for application for application packs and information about the packs and information about the application process and our resourcesapplication process and our resources