British Nutrition Foundation (BNF)’s Healthy Eating Week will take place from 13th to 17th June 2022.
Register now for the British Nutrition Foundation’s 10th Healthy Eating Week to receive all the latest updates about the free resources that will be available. Their big message for the Week this year is:
Eat well for you and the planet!
Each day of the Week will have a different theme (and a downloadable poster - links provided below):
- Monday: Focus on fibre - for meals and snacks - fibre poster
- Tuesday: Get at least 5 A DAY - put plenty on your plate - 5 a day poster
- Wednesday: Vary your protein - be more creative - vary your protein poster
- Thursday: Stay hydrated - fill up from the tap - stay hydrated poster
- Friday: Reduce food waste - know your portions - reduce food waste poster
To support schools, they will be launching a range of materials that you can use to plan for the Week, click here to register - Early Years Practitioners, Primary School Teachers and Secondary School Teachers.
LGfL Resources
Switched on Science
There are units linked to healthy eating, food and movement; including lesson plans, teacher guides and videos. Why not explore ‘Who am I?’ with Y1, ‘Healthy Me’ and/or ‘Move it’ with Y2, ‘Food and Our Bodies’ with Y3, ‘Teeth and Eating’ with Y4, ‘Let’s Get Moving’ with Y5 and ‘Staying Alive’ with Y6?
j2e Tool Suite
There are many tools within the j2e suite that can be used within Healthy Eating Week. You could design a poster, complete a survey about favourite healthy breakfasts or even make a short animation to encourage people to stay healthy in JIT. Using j2e5 the children could write up their favourite healthy recipes for a healthy eating cookbook that could be shared with parents, or they could design a poster to encourage children to have their 5 a day. Alternatively, you could make a Healthy Eating Week Tracker and get the pupils to complete these online.
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Busy Things
Busy Things has a range of activities connected with healthy eating, from finding out where food comes from to designing a healthy meal there is something to suit EYFS - KS2. Visit the “Special Events” and click on Healthy Eating Week, where you will find a selection of suitable activities, as shown below:
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Adobe Creative Cloud
Don’t forget you have the power of creativity in your hands with the wide range of Adobe products found in Creative Cloud. Your pupils could create graphics, collages, flyers, videos and animations that look professional in just a few taps with the all new Adobe Express (formely Spark).
Dominic Traynor (Education Evangelist @Adobe) is recording four challenges using Adobe Express which he is releasing one after the other. One of the challenges could be used for Healthy Eating Week. The focus is "Energy Drinks". To take part in two or more challenges, fill out this ACE Summer of Creative Love form. (N.B The first 50 teachers to complete the form will be able to reward one student per challenge guaranteed with a prize)
The first 50 teachers to fill out the form will be able to reward one student per challenge guaranteed with a prize.
Other Resources
British Nutrition Foundation website has more information about healthy eating and nutrition.
Food - a fact of life (FFL) website is a comprehensive, progressive education programme which communicates up-to-date, evidence-based, consistent and accurate messages around ‘food’ to all those involved in education. The site has free resources for teaching young people aged 3-16 years about where food comes from, cooking and healthy eating.
Please let us know what you are doing for the week, you can share via our Twitter and on our Facebook pages using #HEW22