Bring on breakfast

A primary food project for pupils aged 5-6 years.

Bring on breakfast primary food project

This primary project has been developed to help children learn about healthy eating (specifically the importance of breakfast and 5 A DAY), where some of their food comes from and how to prepare a simple dish safely and hygienically. This learning will be delivered within the context of making a dish for breakfast.

Aims

  • Pupils will develop their knowledge of basic healthy eating messages.
  • Pupils will carry out tasting to help them plan a breakfast dish.
  • Pupils will develop the skills to safely use a range of basic cooking equipment (e.g. knife, chopping board, spoon, fork, bowl).
  • Pupils will plan, make and evaluate their breakfast dish.
5 - 7 YR
Primary food project - Bring on breakfast

Bring on breakfast programme of work and lesson plans

multi-yr
Breakfast images

Photos of different breakfast foods

multi-yr
Breakfast labels

Breakfast labels to match to the breakfast images resource

multi-yr
The Eatwell Guide food cards

A set of food cards which are depicted in The Eatwell Guide.

5 - 7 YR
Plant or animal? worksheet

A worksheet for sorting food into its plant or animal origin.

multi-yr
Season cards

A set of cards around the four seasons.

multi-yr
Visiting a dairy farm

Primary school children visit a dairy farm.

multi-yr
Fruit cards

A set of cards showing photographs of fruit.

multi-yr
Vegetable cards

A set of cards showing photographs of vegetables.

multi-yr
Ingredient check letter

A template letter to send home about pupils handling and/or eating different ingredients.

multi-yr
Tasting guide

A guide to support running a food tasting session.

multi-yr
Sensory vocabulary cards

A set of descriptive word cards for sensory evaluation.

3 - 5 YR
My food book presentation.pptx

A presentation that can be printed and used as a book to record food experiences.

3 - 5 YR
Super taster certificate Alisha

A certificate to reward pupils for tasting food.

3 - 5 YR
Super taster certificate Ronnie

A certificate for rewarding pupils for tasting food.

multi-yr
Fruit and vegetable snack cards

A selection of images of fruit and vegetables that could be eaten as snacks.

multi-yr
Setting up a cooking session

A guide to support setting up a cooking session.

multi-yr
Peeling

A video looking at peeling.

multi-yr
Grating

A video looking at grating.

multi-yr
The claw grip

A video looking at the claw grip.

multi-yr
The bridge hold

A video looking at the bridge hold.

multi-yr
Food skills guide

A guide highlighting key food skills that can be taught.

3 - 5 YR
Get ready to cook presentation

A presentation about how to get ready to cook.

3 - 5 YR
Get ready to cook cards

A set of cards about getting ready to cook.

multi-yr
Prickly pineapples - from farm to fork

A video looking at pineapples.

multi-yr
Brilliant bananas - from farm to fork

A video looking at bananas.

multi-yr
Tasty tomatoes - from farm to fork

A video looking at tomatoes.

multi-yr
Magnificent milk - from farm to you

A video looking at milk.

multi-yr
Where food comes from cards

A set of cards exploring where food comes from.

5 - 7 YR
The farm visit

A presentation looking at the farm visit story.

multi-yr
Breakfast pot planner

Worksheet for planning a breakfast pot.

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