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JUNE 2014

Update for Scottish Schools & Communities

Free Cooking Skills Snippets Films

Our expert team of food teachers developed Skills Snippets to make teaching cooking skills easier for teachers and other cooking leaders. We currently have eight Skills Snippets films to choose from and they can be accessed free at www.focusonfood.org

If you’re a teacher or cooking leader, watch the films a few times before teaching a skill. You could also show them in your lessons with or without the sound. It’s a good idea to use the films together with our Skill Up, Start Cooking pack, which contains 32 recipes and much more. You can claim one of 200 free Skill Up, Start Cooking packs by filling in this form and returning it to us.*

COMMONWEALTH RESOURCES

We have produced some handy teaching notes to help you link into the commonwealth games and eating for sporting success. This includes some suggestions of recipes for different age groups that you can access on our COOK SCHOOL website. Click here to look at our teaching notes.

*first 200 applicants will recieve a free Skill Up, Start Cooking pack. Only one pack per school/group. You must provide address details and complete a registration form when you recieve your pack. Packs will be issued in time for the start of the autumn term.

follow up visits

Lois, our School & Community Advisor has been working with a number of schools this year that have previously hosted a Cooking Bus visit. Her role is to help these schools & communities continue, develop and sustain practical cooking and food education; this all adds to legacy of the Healthier Scotland Cooking Bus.

You can read what Lois has been up to recently in her visits by clicking here.

If your school or community would like further support with developing practical cooking or food education following a Cooking Bus visit, email Lois at lois@focusonfood.org or phone her on 07767 112548.

Upcoming Events

Eat, Drink, Discover Scotland - 12-14 September, Edinburgh, Royal Highland Centre - The only national food and drink show to focus on Scottish produce and producers. This year, the team on the Cooking Bus will be showing pupils and teachers how to make a delicious Pear & Blackberry Bumble using local Scottish ingredients.

Risk Assessment and Hygiene - Saturday 13 September 2014 Education Scotland is offering practical support and advice around the practicalities of risk assessment and hygiene considerations around growing food in school, cooking the food in school and eating the results. Contact lorna.aitken@educationscotland.gov.uk to book on or for further details.

Scottish Learning Festival - 24-25, Glasgow
Come and find us at the Scottish Learning Festival to find out more about Focus on Food, our resources and how to apply for a Healthier Scotland Cooking Bus visit.

Partner News

Dundee HE Teach Meet
Plans are underway to host an HE Teach Meet around qualifications and future destinations at Dundee Science Centre in November. If you have any questions or would like your name on the distribution list for further details, please contact lorna.aitken@educationscotland.gov.uk

Eco-Schools One Planet Picnic 2014
Eco-Schools Scotland want you to organise a One Planet Picnic any time between June and October 2014. Find out more here

The Royal Highland Education Trust (RHET)
Why not book in for a day at the Royal Highland Show 2014? There are a range of FREE sessions for schools groups in the Children’s Discovery Centre run by RHET including; baking, candle making, cooking, milking and seafood tasting. Click here for more details.

Focus on Food is owned and managed by The Dean Clough Foundation, a company limited by guarantee with charitable status. Registered in England No. 2388759, Charity No. 328185 (England and Wales) and SCO40047 (Scotland).

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