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Are you currently planning support for your pupils around the NEA1 tasks for 2024/25? If so, don’t forget that we have plenty of resources on Food – a fact of life to help!

Why breakfast really matters and practical tips around how to provide healthy breakfasts

Inspire children and young people to get active during the Olympics!

With busy primary teachers in mind, Food – a fact of life has created six food projects, one for each year of primary school. Each project delivers learning about healthy eating, cooking and where food comes from, in an exciting food context!

Open Farm Sunday, farming’s annual open day, is back for its 18th year!

Learn about the exciting Ingredients Into Schools pilot - providing teachers with free ingredients for cooking in lessons!

With spring starting it’s great to finally see the days getting longer, temperatures warming and plants blossoming in time for summer. The newborn lambs bouncing around in the fields and the different crops growing that makes this time of year a really good opportunity to explore the seasonal origins of our food with pupils.

From developing quiche and canapes for Waitrose and Tesco, to working for Heston Blumenthal and Charlie Bigham - Claire Gibbs tells us about her exciting food career to date!

We all need to increase the amount of fibre in our diet. This article provide ideas for ways in which you and your pupils can learn more about fibre, this Fibre February!