Schools Urged to Educate on Healthy Eating
Schools are being urged to teach children the values of healthy eating in support of this year's Scottish Food Fortnight (SFF). Organisers are suggesting a range of options to encourage participation from as many schools as possible across the country.
SFF is actively encouraging schools to incorporate cookery and local food lessons into their curriculum during the fortnight of events in September.
Ideas include:
Organise day trips to local farms to see what is grown and produced locally
Hold a Harvest Festival, where each pupil has to bring in an item of food from the countryside
Introduce a traditional and locally sourced Scottish menu for school dinners for the fortnight
Invite a local chef to do a cookery demonstration
Organisers have welcomed interest from some local Scottish schools who are teaming up with award-winning chefs in the area for small cookery demonstrations and child- friendly cookery lessons. In 2006, children from Dalmuir Out of Schoolcare recorded a CD of songs about food, and children from Glamis Primary helped prepare and present the first partridge of the season to Food Minister Ross Finnie at the Scottish Food Fortnight launch.
Scottish Food Fortnight was established in 2003 to raise awareness of the quality and variety of food and drink on offer in Scotland, and to change the habits of what we eat and where we buy it. Producers, retailers, restaurateurs, farm shops, farmers' markets and hoteliers across Scotland participate in the fortnight to promote and celebrate Scottish produce. The event has already gained the support of Michelin-starred chefs including Gordon Ramsay, Tony Borthwick, Martin Wishart and Nick Nairn.
Scottish Food Fortnight 2007 will be launched at Scotland's Countryside Festival in Glamis Castle, from 1st September until 16th September 2007.
To participate or to find out more details of events in your area, visit the Scottish Food Fortnight website
SFF is actively encouraging schools to incorporate cookery and local food lessons into their curriculum during the fortnight of events in September.
Ideas include:
Organise day trips to local farms to see what is grown and produced locally
Hold a Harvest Festival, where each pupil has to bring in an item of food from the countryside
Introduce a traditional and locally sourced Scottish menu for school dinners for the fortnight
Invite a local chef to do a cookery demonstration
Organisers have welcomed interest from some local Scottish schools who are teaming up with award-winning chefs in the area for small cookery demonstrations and child- friendly cookery lessons. In 2006, children from Dalmuir Out of Schoolcare recorded a CD of songs about food, and children from Glamis Primary helped prepare and present the first partridge of the season to Food Minister Ross Finnie at the Scottish Food Fortnight launch.
Scottish Food Fortnight was established in 2003 to raise awareness of the quality and variety of food and drink on offer in Scotland, and to change the habits of what we eat and where we buy it. Producers, retailers, restaurateurs, farm shops, farmers' markets and hoteliers across Scotland participate in the fortnight to promote and celebrate Scottish produce. The event has already gained the support of Michelin-starred chefs including Gordon Ramsay, Tony Borthwick, Martin Wishart and Nick Nairn.
Scottish Food Fortnight 2007 will be launched at Scotland's Countryside Festival in Glamis Castle, from 1st September until 16th September 2007.
To participate or to find out more details of events in your area, visit the Scottish Food Fortnight website
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