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What is the Year all about?
Linking together key government agendas around:– learning outside the
classroom– healthier school meals– developing healthier
lifestyles– sustainable farming and
food production
Who is the Year for?• Everyone in the food and
farming sectors – including food producers, processors, distributors, retailers and caterers.
• All children in all schools (primary, secondary and special) in England
• Their teachers, parents and carers
• The wider education sector - colleges, training providers, voluntary sector bodies
What will it achieve?
We hope that the Year will result in:
• More understanding about the food chain and the countryside
• Increased and sustainable links between schools and sector
• Healthier lifestyles and better nutrition choices
• Production of new, high quality resources
• Greater awareness of careers• Enjoyment!
Organisation • Patron – HRH the Prince of
Wales• Steering Group • Working Groups:
– Education– Food and Farming– Communications – Finance– Countryside in the Park
(3 major events) • Regional Steering Groups • Overall Project Manager • Secretariat – hosted by
RASE
What are our aspirations?
Primary:– Every pupil will have
undertaken a growing activity
– Every pupil will have first hand experience of food being grown
– Every pupil will have the opportunity to prepare at least one food plate
What are our aspirations?
Secondary:
–Every pupil will have taken part in a countryside activity
–Every pupil will have the opportunity to undertake work-related activities
What are our aspirations?
Schools:
–Every teacher is aware of the curriculum opportunities
– Every school will be participating in local food procurement initiatives
–Every school will be promoting healthy living through experience of food, farming and the countryside
Scale of task ahead
Number of schools and pupils in England
Nursery 455 37,000
Primary 17,504 4,418,950
Secondary 3,367 3,306,780
Special 1,105 89,390
Other 2,748 363,570
Total 25,179 8,215,690
Why will schools be interested?
Good learning design e.g. novel teaching strategies or ideas
Professional development e.g. learning from experience
Context of the experience e.g. curriculum requirements
Context of the location e.g. working farm
What are schools interested in?
Resources and activities that:
•would otherwise be difficult to deliver
•are credible i.e. ‘by teachers, for teachers’
•clearly fit into the curriculum
•help raise attainment
•are easy to access (universal marketing, single source)
•are available across the country
•remove barriers to participation (cost, H&S, time, expertise of a facilitator)
•can be written into long term plans (not ‘one-offs’)
What is already being offered?
Pledges
•Current and new activity being offered by individual national or regional organisations and businesses
•Opportunities will be placed into themes and marketed to schools
Examples include:
•BPC ‘Grow Your Own Potatoes’,
•CLA Regional Food Advocates
•CFE / FACE / Natural England support materials for shows and events
•Devon EBP and Show Society ‘Food Miles Challenge’
•Specialist Schools and Academies Trust organising an Award Scheme
•Levy Boards / British Nutrition Foundation developing primary curriculum materials for ‘Food – a fact of life’ website
•School Farms Network and DfES producing detailed advice on setting up a school farm
•HTI proposal to offer secondments between schools and rural businesses
New developments
What else is required?
Example: School Food and Farming Champions
In partnership with the Citizenship Foundation
•School champions put forward by individual schools to take part in regionally organised training programme about food and farming
•Champions then recognised for their achievements at a national event.
Resourcing required for development and promotion of scheme in schools, provision of training programme (location etc could be ‘in kind’)
Support required to participate in training programme