DairyCo launches new schools resources on World School Milk Day

Published 26 September 12

DairyCo has launched a new package of free teaching resources telling the story of where food comes from on World School Milk Day.  The resources are available to download from www.foodafactoflife.org.uk in a major revamp of Britain's leading food and farming education site. 

The relaunch of the British Nutrition Foundation site comes after teachers and pupils across Britain had their say in a research project led by DairyCo to boost the site's primary and secondary school resources.

Food a Fact of LifeTeachers can access new videos, a dozen interactive, easy-to-use PowerPoint-based guides to food and farming, and a range of question and answer sheets with marking guides.

The improved primary school resources help bring together cross-curricular learning through the context of food with a new addition to the extremely popular 'Learn with' stories - an interactive 'My Farm Visit' notebook. The 'Learn with' stories, which have been downloaded more than 80,000 times in the past year, follow young children exploring healthy eating and where food comes from. A new video features a group of school children as they find out how milk is produced on a dairy farm.

Secondary school teachers can enjoy a whole new food and farming area on the site including editable worksheets and interactive presentations spanning areas from animal health and welfare, the environment and milk production. A new video focuses on the origins of foods from each of the five eatwell plate food groups.

Today's launch coincides with the United Nation's World School Milk Day initiative which is celebrated across the globe with events for school children taking place on dairy farms throughout Britain.

Diane Symes, Schools and Education Manager atDairyCo, said: "The new and improved resources are a significant addition to site, not least because they are based on feedback from teachers and pupils. We know many teachers feel as strongly as we do about the importance of learning about food and farming, so it's great that we can offer them quick, immediate access to a fantastic range of new resources."

http://www.dairyco.org.uk/news/news-articles/september-2012/world-school-milk-day/

 

 



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