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Food Education Survey

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It is intended to highlight two forthcoming exciting food education opportunities for schools whilst gathering intelligence about where schools currently are on their journey with food education.

The results will allow us to establish areas for support; sharing emerging practice and mapping practice across Scotland.

Question Title

* 1. Name of Initiative:
Food for Thought: Education Fund
Aims: Schools can apply for funding of up to £5,000 to empower teachers to use food as a context for learning within CfE

Education Scotland is committed to building the confidence and capacity of practitioners to improve food education in schools/clusters and professional learning communities in local authorities across Scotland.

The opportunity to apply for a grant from the Food for Thought: Education Fund will give practitioners scope to explore food education across the curriculum. It is essential that schools identify and work in partnership with a local business to enhance the project. Each project will be individual as will the nature of support from the business link.

Outcomes:
This year, we are particularly interested in proposals which:

• Enable learners to gain understanding about wider food education and apply that knowledge and understanding across the totality of the curriculum, including the world of work.
• Demonstrate innovative approaches to learning about food and health
• Demonstrate an impact on learners, with learners being able to reflect on their food choices

Would you like your name to be added to the register of interest for the Food for Thought: Education Fund?

Question Title

* 2. Name of Initiative:
Chefs@School: Inspiring Food Education
Scottish chefs and cooks can have tremendous influence as leaders in the food culture change that we need to see taking place in Scotland. Chefs have the ability to deliver messages of health and good nutrition in an appealing way to young people because of their depth of knowledge of food and cooking, and by passing on the unstinting passion and commitment for their work that is so often a hallmark of the hospitality industry.

The ‘Chefs@School’ scheme will allow chefs and cooks to add value to the school curriculum and accelerate the evolution of food culture change taking place in Scotland.

Aims:
To deliver a nationwide programme over 2013-2015 which will:

• Link schools and communities to a network of chefs and cooks
• Enable chefs and cooks to add value to the school curriculum and promote the food culture change taking place in Scotland
• Inspire young people about Scottish Food, drink and the Scottish hospitality industry
• See chefs going into schools from September 2013.

Outcomes:
• Learners will have enhanced skills in cooking with fresh, local produce
• Chefs acting as role models will demonstrate vocational pathways for learners
• Learners will have gained understanding about seasonal produce and can apply that knowledge and understanding around seasonality to source, create and make nutritionally balanced meals.

Would you like your name to be added to the register of interest about the Chefs@School: Inspiring Food Education programme?

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