Resources to encourage healthy eating and physical activity

•  School Zone. Curriculum linked healthy teaching resources are available on the School Zone. These include resources for: head teachers, Reception and Year 6 teachers to help them teach their pupils about healthy lifestyles. Includes ideas for whole school activities to encourage eating well and moving more, as well as suggestions for engaging parents. Teachers can subscribe to the School Zone to keep up-to-date with new mental wellbeing and healthy lifestyle materials.

 Resources to encourage healthy eating

• NHS Food Scanner app can be downloaded here. An app to help pupils explore what is in their food and drink and swap unhealthy foods that are high in saturated fat, sugar and salt, to healthier choices. The app is free to download.

 

• TastEd - offers teachers support, training and resources to deliver a range of simple, classroom based, sensory food education lessons that are tailored to UK curriculum

 

• ProVeg – School Plates program helps schools improve menus by increasing the quality and availability of plant-based food, promoting healthier and more sustainable eating habits.

 

• Healthy Steps – guidance for schools: Guidance for schools to support delivering a whole-school approach to healthy eating and supporting families.

 

• Creating a culture and ethos of healthy eating. Supporting pupils to gain knowledge of how to keep themselves healthy and making informed choices about healthy eating and fitness.

 

• The Eatwell Guide. A tool used to define government recommendations on eating healthily and achieving a balanced diet. The Eatwell Guide image and Eatwell Guide booklet are included in the list of resources.

 

• Research on the impact of Universal Infant free school meals (UIFSM) policy in England found evidence that by the end of the school year, those exposed to UIFSM have significantly better bodyweight outcomes then they otherwise would, and are more likely to be healthy weight, less likely to be obese, and have a lower BMI.

• 5 A DAY tips to help families and children get the recommended five portions of fruit and vegetables a day and inform teachers’ lessons, advice and guidance.

 

• NHS Choices provides a wide repository of advice and guidance including the 8 Tips for Healthy Eating.

 

• Food A Fact Of Life - (FFL) 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. FFL has recently produced a Primary food lead online essentials pack which is a curated collection of resources to support high quality food teaching across the primary school age-phase