British Nutrition Foundation (BNF)’s Healthy Eating Week will take place from 12th to 16th June 2023. Healthy Eating Week is all about supporting and promoting healthier lifestyles and this years’ theme is Healthy Eating Week - For Everyone!
The cost-of-living crisis continues to have an impact on the affordability of healthier diets for so many of us. With this in mind, for Healthy Eating Week 2023 the British Nutrition Foundation are focussing on providing free, evidence-based advice and support for everyone who wants to find their way to eat a healthier diet regardless of these barriers.
Register now for the British Nutrition Foundation’s 11th Healthy Eating Week to receive all the latest updates about the free resources that will be available.
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 tool suite that can be used within Healthy Eating Week (*you will need to be a 'Let's Get Digital subscribing school to access this premium resource).
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 Adobe Express.
Dominic Traynor (Education Evangelist @Adobe) is running some Adobe Express Live Lessons in May; with some sessions using Healthy Eating Week as the stimulus. To sign up for free click here.
They have also provided free writing prompts - perfect for using Express Video or Page. See here for Healthy Eating Week prompt.
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 #HEW23