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Canteen to Classroom
Educating and Empowering Students
About Canteen to Classroom
Educating students on the impact of their food choices is essential in nurturing future generations that are both health and environmentally conscious. But let’s not forget the pure joy and wonder of food! With this in mind, we have developed an educational programme – Canteen to Classroom.
With high-quality, evidence-based lesson plans, we save teachers precious time and effort. Even better? All of our resources are fully-funded and free to download.
Busy timetable? Try out Quick Bites – our concise, high-impact sessions that engage students in topical discussion and debate.
Want an interactive cookery workshop where a professional chef-trainer guides students through prepping and cooking a main dish, giving them the confidence to innovate with their own flavours.? Reach out about booking a Cooking with Plants workshop with us.
Take a look at our resources below to see the topics covered, including the types of food we grow and eat, climate change, nutrition, tasting, and food waste.
The key benefits of the Canteen to Classroom programme include:
- Experiencing, celebrating, and having fun tasting fruit, vegetables, and other plant-rich foods.
- Understanding the health benefits and importance of eating more plants.
- Gaining a greater awareness of food waste and the ways that we can feed our increasing population nutritiously and sustainably.
- Increasing knowledge of where our food comes from and how it ends up on our plates.
- Assessing the impact of making sustainable food choices.
- Empowering children to make informed choices about food and the positive steps they can take in their own lives, as well as that of the community and the planet.
- Engaging the next generation in debates around big topics such as the future of our planet and climate change education.
The programme also encourages the development of cross-curricular skills, including: data handling and analysis; debating; geography skills such as exploring land use; using search technologies effectively in computing; science through nutrition, plants, and animal classification; using art creatively; cooking and nutrition within design and technology; and even taking part in team games and being active during PE.
Resources
Cooking with Plants – student cookery workshops
Cooking with Plants is ProVeg UK’s brand-new in-person student cookery workshop, developed…
Climate Action Week Assembly
London Climate Action Week is one of the world’s largest independent climate events. Now…
KS1 – What types of food do we eat?
Encourage ourselves and others to eat food of different colours to keep us healthy
Canteen to Classroom Partners and Supporters
Canteen to Classroom is made possible by generous support from the Ennismore Foundation.