Food route: a journey through food

Informed by young people themselves, and their teachers, the resources bring the Agency's food competences to life.

Food route has been developed to:

• enable children and young people at primary and secondary schools to develop skills and knowledge around diet and health, food safety, cooking (food preparation and handling) and consumer awareness (when shopping)
• support independent self study so pupils can learn and test their knowledge at their own speed
• support curriculums across the UK with relevant links to food technology, home economics, science, personal health education and religious education
• be used by parents/carers as well as teachers
• address the Agency's commitment to produce a version of the food competences that young people can interact with

The Food route resources have been produced by the Agency, working closely with the British Nutrition Foundation, and have been split into primary school and secondary school resources.

The primary school resources, aimed at young people up to the age of 12, are made up of a series of four target charts relating to each of the food competences and are supported by teachers' user guides and how to achieve guides. There is also a series of worksheet activities, which is available for download only.

The secondary school resources take the form of a short workbook for each individual competency area, again supported by teacher user guides.

A downloadable certificate is available for each age group, designed to be awarded on completion of the various charts, worksheets or workbooks.

The primary school resources deliver learning around a healthy balanced diet, being safe in the kitchen, carrying out basic cooking skills, such as peeling, slicing and mixing, as well as teaching children about food labelling and where their food comes from.

The secondary school workbooks contain activities for young people looking at the Agency’s 8 tips for eating well, being a healthy weight, preventing cross-contamination, understanding storage instructions on food labels, factors affecting our food choices (including the influence of advertising) and how to make recipes healthier when you cook.

Teachers' user guide

Up to ages 7 to 9
Worksheets

Complete chart
Food safety chart
Diet and health chart
Cooking chart
Shopping chart

Teachers' how to achieve guide
Certificate of achievement

Up to ages 11 to 12
Worksheets

Complete chart
Food safety chart
Diet and health chart
Cooking chart
Shopping chart

Teachers' how to achieve guide
Certificate of achievement

Teachers' user guide

Up to ages 11 to 14
Food safety workbook
Diet and health workbook
Cooking workbook
Consumer awareness workbook

Certificate of achievement

Up to ages 16+
Food safety workbook
Diet and health workbook
Cooking workbook
Consumer awareness workbook

Certificate of achievement

To order free copies of the Food route resources (while stocks last) contact Food Standards Agency Publications on 0845 606 0667 or by email: foodstandards@ecgroup.co.uk. A complete list of the resources that are available to order, together with their order codes, is included below.

Copies of the Food Route resources are also available to order in Welsh.

Downloadable versions of the Food route resources, together with more information about the Agency's food competences framework, are available at the links below.