National Curriculum in Wales, Key Stage 2

Pupils are taught knowledge and understanding, designing skills and making skills through tasks in which they investigate and evaluate simple products, undertake focused practical tasks and work on tasks in which they design and make products.

The materials support D&T work by:

• Encouraging pupils to taste, handle and find out about a variety of fruit and vegetables.
• Investigating food preferences and making food products to meet their needs.
• Developing a range of practical food skills, including appropriate finishing techniques.
• Learning about food and nutrition issues.
• Encourage designing skills, e.g. writing a specification for a fruit product.
• Implementing realistic and effective food hygiene and safety procedures.
• Designing and making food products – fruit and vegetable based recipes.

Pupils are taught aspects of life processes, nutrition (including dental health and the need for food in relation to activity), growth, health, well-being and the environment. These materials support the teaching of Science by:

• Promoting health understanding through the context of a healthy balanced diet, using the Balance of Good Health as a model.
• Providing practical examples of recipes and activities to support food choice in relation to health.
• Understanding the type, role and function of energy and a range of nutrients provided by food in the diet.
• Investigating how materials change, e.g. juicing fruit and vegetables, why some fruit goes brown when cut.
• Providing a context to find out about the variety of plants found in different habitats, e.g. vegetables.

PSE offers learning opportunities and experiences that reflect the increased freedom and physical and social awareness of pupils through competence statements for attitudes and values, skills and knowledge and understanding (10 different aspects, including social, physical, emotional, moral and environmental aspects).

In particular, PSE plays a role in developing and promoting health throughout a whole-school approach.

These materials support PSE work by:

• Promoting a healthier lifestyle through diet.
• Taking responsibility for their actions, e.g. deciding what to eat.
• Encouraging informed choice through fun and appropriate activities.
• Supporting personal and food hygiene initiatives.
• Developing positive attitudes towards physical activity.

In schools, activities may include:

• Keeping a personal diary of fruit and vegetable consumption, and feeding this back to the class for discussion.
• Organising fruit and vegetable quizzes or activity days.
• Participating in school or community events with a 5-a-day theme.
• Allowing pupils to make choices given to them in school about food.
• Exploring the reasons why a healthy lifestyle is important.
• Developing a whole-school food policy, looking at food choices throughout school.

These materials have been developed to be flexible teaching tools, enabling you to dip in and use them to support different aspects of the school day. For example, they may also be useful in:

• Mathematics – for example weighing and measuring, recording data, calculating costs or reading temperatures and timings.
• English/Welsh – for example writing and following recipes/instructions, producing creative works (poems).
• ICT – for example recording the number of fruit and vegetables eaten in class and displaying this data as a series of graphs using a spreadsheet, undertaking basic nutritional analysis, using the internet to aid research.
• Geography – for example finding out where different fruit and vegetables come from around the world and how they are grown in different climates.

• You may also wish to use these materials to support extra-curricular activities – for example a school cookery club that operates after school.
• Parents may also be interested in having some of the activity sheets, or the web address, for use at home with their children.
• The recipes, information sheets and Bash Street figures can be used to make a bright, colourful display in school. This could be in the entrance hall, helping to inform visitors that yours is a healthy school, or within a classroom, perhaps with a fruit and vegetable display.
• School catering staff may also be interested in the recipes and display materials, perhaps organising a Bash Street Kids menu for a special day or week.