COOK SCHOOL

COOK SCHOOL magazine is the Campaign's major printed teaching resource. Published twice a year, the magazine is aimed at enhancing primary and secondary teachers' knowledge and understanding of food, and at improving the teaching of cooking skills and food knowledge. COOK SCHOOL can also be successfully used by health professionals, nutrition groups and parents who wish to support the learning and understanding - and vital importance - of cooking in the curriculum. Packed with recipe ideas, cooking techniques and articles on food and nutrition it also makes a great read for anyone interested in food or cooking with their children at home.

COOK SCHOOL magazine is available on subscription of £20 per year for two copies including postage and packing to all schools registered with the Focus on Food Campaign. Extra copies and back issues can be ordered. Any individual or organization can buy COOK SCHOOL for £12.50 per copy plus £1.50 for postage and packing. Email focusonfood@designdimension.org

COOKITS
The COOKIT is a set of high quality cooking equipment. Each COOKIT contains all the equipment needed to teach basic cooking and baking skills to groups of up to 12 pupils. The kits include mixing bowls, jugs, chopping boards, scales, baking equipment and trays, saucepans, can-openers and ladles. It also includes a range of items for teacher demonstration and a full colour COOKIT guide of activities, recipes, a risk assessment outline and health and hygiene advice for teachers to help plan lessons.

The COOKIT has been developed for primary schools
by The Focus on Food Campaign, with the support of the Food Standards Agency. It is designed to enable teachers to teach practical cooking skills and inspire children to learn about healthier eating and food safety. It can be used in a range of teaching situations, including playgroups, cooking clubs and young
people’s organizations.

Focus on Food Executive Director Anita Cormac said:
‘The COOKIT is a fantastic concept that has been really well received by all primary schools. After years of experience teaching cooking to young people, we know what works well, what will be used and will last. We also understand how carefully schools need to manage their budgets. The COOKIT has been carefully designed and trialled to ensure it effectively supports cooking in schools. The equipment is robust, made to high safety specifications and represents good quality and value’.

The COOKIT equipment has been selected from the same range that has been used on Focus on Food’s famous teaching kitchens, the Cooking Buses, during the past ten years.

For full details of what is contained in the COOKIT
and to place an order please contact Focus on Food by telephoning 01422 383191 or email diane@designdimension.org

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HUNGRY FOR HEALTH PACKS
The Focus on Food Campaign has published a three-part food education resource pack called 'Hungry for Health', commissioned by North Lanarkshire Learning and Leisure Services.

Each pack concentrates on a different age range: 3-5 years; 5-7 years and 7-11 years and is colour-coded for each age group and is presented in a brightly coloured durable plastic briefcase in either blue, red or yellow.

The resource plays a key role in enhancing the whole-child, whole-school approach to food in primary schools. It reinforces the drive to improve the quality of food served inschools and of food-health messages, especially through the promotion of cooking skills.

Inside the packs are teachers' books containing four Focus areas, each accompanied by a range of Ideas and Activities suitable for the age range. Each area is supported by Posters, Recipe Cards and classroom Copiables.

Each Focus in the Teachers' Books explores a different and distinctive approach to teaching children about food, diet, cooking and health.

'Hungry for Health' packs cost £100 + £10.00 p&p each or you can get a Complete primary set of P1-3 and P4-7 packs £175.00 + £20.00 p&p or you can get a complete set of all three packs for £250.00 + £30.00 p&p.

For more information or to buy 'Hungry for Health' teaching resource packs, contact David Craig, Education Officer, North Lanarkshire Council, Quality Improvement Service, Learning and Leisure Services, Kildonan Street, Coatbridge, ML5 3BT.

T: 01236 812209
E: qdspacks@northlan.gov.uk
www.northlan.gov.uk
clicking on Education and Learning, then classroom resources for teachers.

POWER OF GOVERNANCE
This Focus on Food publication gives guidance to Governing Bodies in implementing food policy in primary schools. The aim of the guide is to alert school governors to the breadth and crucial nature of their privileges and powers in improving the food, diet and health standards across the whole of the generation they represent.

It is vital that school governors improve and strengthen food policy and food culture in schools. The objective is to see food education brought to the forefront of the curriculum, and by logical connection, to see cooking as the essential tool by which young people will be able to control their own diet and health.

This 28-page publication includes information and advice on how school governors make a difference, their powers and responsibilities, how they can influence and support the school and make things happen.

It also clarifies the role of food in the ‘being healthy’ aim of the Government’s 2004 Green Paper “Every Child Matters”.

It explains how schools can help achieve this and how they can create a whole-school food policy and school nutrition action groups, how to introduce more practical cooking into the classroom, how to change the culture of food in schools, how to deal with the problems of school lunches and the nutrition-based minimum standards for school lunches set down by the Department of Education and the School Food Trust.

The guide has advice, guidance and hard facts and figures on what constitutes a balanced diet and how to aim to achieve it, explains health messages such as five-a-day and includes four case studies of good practice. The Power of Governance first appeared as an extensive article in COOK SCHOOL in April 2007 but led to many requests for it to be published on its own - both from inside the education system and outside.

The publication costs £6.50 including postage and packing.

To buy a copy of The Power of Governance please contact Focus on Food by telephoning 01422 383191 or by emailing focusonfood@designdimension.org