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