Grown Ups – Teachers
Mission Nutrition Education Pack
Save the Children, ContinYou and the Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens are joining up with Blue Peter to raise awareness of nutrition, here and abroad. In the UK, the Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens will help children learn how to grow their own food and Continyou will provide free healthy breakfasts to children who would otherwise go to school on an empty stomach. Internationally, Save the Children will send food packages and seeds to the most vulnerable children in Bangladesh, Colombia, and South Africa to get meals on their tables and give them a sustainable way of providing for themselves.
The aim of the appeal is to get two million meals on plates. We’ll be encouraging people across the UK to help us by holding bring-and-buy sales.
Activities
This series of activities will help you explore the reasons behind the Mission Nutrition appeal and get children motivated to want to help. The activities support work in a variety of curriculum areas, including teaching children to grow food, which is now part of the National Curriculum.
Click here to download the Welsh translations.
Activity 1 explores what we need to be healthy, what makes a healthy, balanced diet and why this is important. Here, the children can explore:
What is meant by nutrition
The importance of the different food groups
Food prices, the value and cost of food
What happens when there is not enough food
Activity 2 looks at the importance of eating a healthy breakfast.
Activity 3 focuses on a case study from Breakfast Club Plus.
Activity 4 looks at growing your own ‘cut and come again’ salad leaves.
Activity 5 includes a personal story from Bangladesh, collected by Save the Children.
Activity 6 includes a personal story from Colombia, collected by Save the Children
Activity 7 includes a personal story from South Africa, collected by Save the Children
(These stories provide an insight into the problems that children and their families in different countries face trying to get enough nutritious food to eat.)
Activity 8 examines how the Mission Nutrition Appeal will help and the difference your support will make. Here, background information on the three charities involved – ContinYou, the Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens and Save the Children – is also provided.
More education resources from our charities
Click on the logos to find more great education resources from Save the Children, the Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens and ContinYou.
